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Found some old sketches in the HP character file while I was waiting for the scanner to scan some designs we’re working on for the kid show gig. These go back a few years. In order: Harmony, Fibby, Chako, Royce.  Some Old Hectic Planet Sketches

Teppo Alexandre Petrov has created a short film of Shmelev’s My Love (1927). Here’s the trailer; visually rather stunning, oil painted on glass.  Here’s a review.  Here’s an interview, from last week.  Here’s the wiki entry. weekend link: petrov trailer and interview

Editions of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy often have excessively small print.  Why?  The major works by those authors are long.  Larger print will make the volumes too long and thus too expensive.  Perhaps more importantly the volumes will appear too forbidding to the average buyer. But isn’t miniscule type for Raskolnikov hard to read?  Ah…most of …

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Davy et Dorothy

The Bank of America’s Keep the Change program freaks me out.   Every time you make a charge with your B of A debit card it rounds the figure up to the nearest whole amount and transfers the change to your checking account.*  Commercials for this service are all over the television and radio – tagline: …

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Many people have been clamoring for this topic over at the secret blog. My views are simple: we have too few cats in the world, relative to dogs.  Dogs, for reasons of temperament, can in essence precommit to being our slaves.  (As long as they are not Irish Setters.)  That makes us more willing to …

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Windows only: Freeware app WinTabber can add tabs to any program for easy grouping. Not only can WinTabber group multiple instances of the same program into tabs, but it can also group different programs together into tabs (as shown in the screenshot). Its possible uses abound, but grouping your applications based on purpose is one …

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Heidi MacDonald alerted me to the fact that Publishers Weekly just ran a review of Arf Forum on their “PW Comics” website. I’ve taken the liberty of reprinting the text below. (order Arf Forum here) “Readers will find this book doing strange and wonderful things to their minds. Imagine someone going through old magazines and …

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