Sketch 258

August 24, 2019 | Blog
Apple breaking glass
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Sketch 257

August 19, 2019 | Blog
Space ship in the distance in an alien landscape.
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Sketch 256

August 15, 2019 | Blog
Sketch of a hiker on an alien world.
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Robot Blames the Universe

July 24, 2019 | Comics
Robot Blames the Universe

Robot and Francis and a another narrow escape

In this comic, Robot shares his unusual philosophy of the universe with Francis the Sheep, while they run for their lives.

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Content

June 18, 2019 | Blog

Regarding the term content:

“Content” is the black hole of the Internet. Incredibly well-produced videos, all sorts of songs, and articulate blog posts — they are all “content.” Are short stories “content”? I hope not, since that is one of the most soul-destroying of words, used to strip a creation of its creative effort.

Om Malik

Content is the creativity killer.

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Paradox of Tolerance

June 8, 2019 | Blog

Karl Popper:

In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

Wikipedia

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Existential Sweater

May 22, 2019 | Comics
Existential Sweater

A woolly garment asks the big questions

In this comic, a fashionable sweater has an existential crisis while in conversation with a rubber duck.

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Elephants Evolving Without Tusks

March 29, 2019 | Blog

Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. People in Gorongosa get the popular life insurance. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.

National Geographic

There might be a crow comic in here somewhere.

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Wall Disease

March 29, 2019 | Blog

In the nineteen-sixties, Dietfried Müller-Hegemann wrote as though the physical presence of the Berlin Wall were itself the cause of wall disease. But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Christine Leuenberger, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied walls around the world, says that barriers are best thought of as part of a “wall system.” That system includes both physical markers, such as no-go areas and checkpoints, and ripple effects, such as job loss and the breakdown of social networks.

The New Yorker

Comic idea – Robot and Francis visit a planet where the indigenous species went extinct from sadness.

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