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Microfiction: JENNY EVERYWHERE IN: A TRIP TO THE MOON [May. 8th, 2008|09:30 am]
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I’m going to try to do one of these a day, as a kind of mental warm-up. I will of course fuck this daily schedule, because we’re moving tomorrow.

Jenny Everywhere in: A Trip to the Moon

“What’s that?” Tor asked.

I cracked one open eye to see him pointing up. I followed his lead and recognized that there was indeed something slowly creeping in front of the sun. Something big.

So much for that suntan.

I stood and stretched. “C’mon,” I said. “Let’s investigate.”

“Aw, do we have to?” he asked. I have to admit he looked cute and vulnerable in his birthday suit, not like someone I should be asking to jet into outer space with me to investigate the giant thingamajiggy in the sky.

“It’s our duty. Okay, not our duty, but my duty, and your duty by proxy of being my friend.”

“But you don’t have a duty, either.”

“Get your pants on. We’re going to outer space.”

Minutes later, and we were on our way, courtesy of one personally owned bad-ass space shuttle. Pointless for someone who can be anywhere at anytime, you say? I say fuck you, it’s cool.

As we moved closer, flying through the air, we could make out what exactly the object was.

It was a giant sperm.

And it was heading toward the moon.

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Just a thought: [Apr. 30th, 2008|10:19 pm]
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People think there’s a communication gap. But there’s not. We’re just communicating differently. We went from communicating with written words, on paper and in books. Slowly. Then came the telephone, and we started communicating with our voices. Along came the internet, and we’re back to communicating with words again, but the amount of people those words can reach has magnified immensely. And cellphones are reaching a saturation point that’s almost unbelievable. But we’re texting. We speak easy when we’re not speaking at all. When we’re typing, I think we’re more honest. Even when we’re telling one another who we are.

A second part of this is podcasts. We’ve gotten our hands on the largest network ever made, and we’re using it to write blogs and post podcasts. We’ve taken the largest and most important technological advance that we’ve ever seen, and we’re using it to write diaries and make radio shows.

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Sexy: David Belle [Apr. 30th, 2008|01:25 pm]
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David Belle - Rush Hour Le Parkour(BBC)

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Ceiling Fans [Apr. 30th, 2008|12:45 pm]
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I’m looking at ceiling fans on-line. David and I are planning on adding ceiling fans to most of the rooms in our house to cut down on energy costs. The only problem with doing so is the fact that ceiling fans, apparently, are really fucking expensive.

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Midwest Hippie Surfer [Apr. 30th, 2008|12:40 pm]
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In the course of writing my sister this morning, I added a note that I want to be a hippie and a surfer, but that this is difficult, living in the Midwest. Of course, being a hippie is fairly easy. And I’m practically there. H, my sister, had some practical responses on how to be a surfer in the Midwest, but none of them carry along the same surfer feel as being a surfer… elsewhere.

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Review: “The Dependents” on Ain’t it Cool News! [Apr. 23rd, 2008|01:20 pm]
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The first issue of “The Dependents” was given a great review by ‘Ambush Bug’ at Ain’t it Cool News!

You can read the review here!

And you can download the comic for free here.

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Download my work: Dependents [Apr. 4th, 2008|10:05 am]
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You can download the first issue of The Dependents at Wowio.com for free!

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See my work: Super Pet Mojo [Apr. 4th, 2008|09:38 am]
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Click the image above to see my work on Super Pet Mojo at Sugary Serials!

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Update: Site Overhaul [Apr. 4th, 2008|09:09 am]
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So I’ve spent the morning overhauling my website. I’m still tinkering a little, but it appears to be complete.

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Enjoy: DAR [Mar. 3rd, 2008|03:10 pm]
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Enjoyable webcomic:

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Enjoy: 4AM [Dec. 7th, 2007|01:06 am]
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Enjoying this pod/music-cast:

The 4AM

-Jared

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Update: [Dec. 7th, 2007|12:55 am]
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I am behind on lettering jobs. This is temporary, and out of my control for the moment, and should be remedied early next week.

I have, in the spare moments of my out-of-my-hands life, created a message board/community/forum called The City. It can be found here: http://www.jaredourke.com/city/. You are welcome, nay… encouraged, to join. There is no topic that is off limits. There are no rules, save for one: I decide. Always.

I am now cross-posting between my website and my LiveJournal. If I could get Gmail to agree with Wordpress for e-mail posting, I might blog more. I might blog more, anyway.

And, I promise, I’ll letter more. I don’t like having fallen behind, but occasionally your personal life f*cks you up.

-J

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Think: William Gibson on Now [Nov. 8th, 2007|11:52 am]
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From the RollingStone.com interview with William Gibson:

In the past ten years, we’ve seen incredible advances in nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Does any of it amaze you?

My assumption has always been that at some point we would lock on to a literally exponential increase in human knowledge. That was my best guess, somewhere back in the Seventies. There hasn’t been anything that made me sit back and say, “Golly, I would never have imagined that.” The aspects of recent history that have caused me to do that have been, in every case, manifestations of retrograde human stupidity.

How do you mean?

It’s been an extraordinarily painful decade or so. I just never in my wildest dreams could have imagined that it could get as fucked up as this guy [George Bush]. It still amazes me how dumb so much of our species can manage to be. But that’s kind of like being amazed at life.

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my web face [Oct. 31st, 2007|09:00 pm]
I have updated (radically, since I've mentioned it here) my website, finally.

Which is to say I've overhauled it.

If you would, please check it out.



Thank you.

-J
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Update [Oct. 31st, 2007|07:51 pm]
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I think I almost have the site up to par with what I want. Maybe a few more tweaks here and there. The important thing is that I’m happy with it, and it’s functional. At least I believe it to be. I’m not actually the one who has to use it. Future employers (such as yourself?) need to be able to navigate it easily. I hope this is so, and you’ll tell me if it’s not.

-J

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Florida Prison Officials Want to See Masturbation Rubbed Out [Jul. 26th, 2007|12:13 pm]
 
 

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via Slog by JONAH SPANGENTHAL-LEE on Jul 26, 2007

This is exactly why prison riots happen:

A Broward prisoner accused of committing a sex act while he was alone in his jail cell was found guilty Tuesday of indecent exposure.

Terry Lee Alexander, 20, unsuccessfully fought the charge, which had been brought by a female Broward Sheriff's Office detention deputy who saw him perform the sex act in his cell in November.

In reaching the guilty verdict, jurors found that an inmate's jail cell is ''a limited access public place'' where exposing oneself is against the law.

The judge sentenced Alexander, of Lauderdale Lakes, to 60 days in jail, on top of the 10-year sentence he is currently serving for armed robbery.

The sole witness in the case, BSO Deputy Coryus Veal, testified that Alexander did not try to hide what he was doing as most prisoners do. Veal saw him perform the act while she was working in a glass-enclosed master control room, 100 feet from Alexander's cell. There was no video tape or other witnesses.

Alexander's attorney argued that the prison cell was a private place and that what Alexander was doing was perfectly normal.

''Did other inmates start masturbating because of Mr. Alexander?'' McHugh asked Veal. ``Did you call a SWAT team?''

''I wish I had,'' Veal answered.

Veal, who has charged seven other inmates with the same offense, insisted that she was not against the act itself -- just the fact that Alexander was so blatant about it. Most inmates, she testified, do it in bed, under the blankets.

Veal said this was the third time she caught Alexander, and she had had enough.

The case drew snickers in the courtroom, especially during jury selection, when prospective jurors were quizzed about their own habits.

Defense attorney Kathleen McHugh faced 17 prospective jurors and asked point-blank who among them had never done that particular sex act.

No hands went up.

While most prisons deal with such an offense internally, Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne -- and Miami-Dade Corrections officials -- are hoping to curb the practice among inmates by prosecuting them.

There was no information on whether similar charges had been brought against female inmates.


 
 

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Wellcome Trust releases 2000 years of medical images under Creative Commons [Jul. 9th, 2007|12:23 pm]
 
 

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Cory Doctorow:Ian sez, "The Wellcome Trust, one of the UK's largest medical charities, has released its image collection under Creative Commons licenses, with a new web site to search through it. I'm not sure how many thousand images there are, but for science teachers and anyone doing research into the history of medicine and biosciences, this will be a huge bonus."Link(Thanks, Ian!)


 
 

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Man founds a city in MN, population 4 [Jul. 3rd, 2007|04:13 pm]
 
 

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Mark Frauenfelder:Picture 11-2Mike Haeg founded Mt. Holly, his own city-within-a-city, and has declared himself "mayor / chamber of commerce / justice-of-the-peace / town drunk." The other three citizens are his wife and two children.

Mayor Haeg's driver's license lists Mt. Holly as his address, and he publishes an online town newspaper, which is a work of art.

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Hype: Philadelphia Mayor Gives Up iPhone Wait After Being Confronted With 200th Murder Statistic [Jul. 3rd, 2007|02:10 am]
 
 

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street.jpgJohn Street, the iPhone loving mayor of Philadelphia, has giving up the wait after a guy with a mohawk asked him, "How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?" The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site.

Street told the man: "I'm doing my job," the newspaper said.

Someone should have told the mayor that the iPhone will be available online.

Mayor Waits for IPhone, Then Leaves Line [Brietbart]
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Silver Spring's downtown is "private property" - no photos allowed [Jul. 2nd, 2007|04:34 pm]
 
 

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via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on Jul 02, 2007

Cory Doctorow:The town of Silver Spring, Maryland gave a private company $100,000,000 to redevelop its downtown area. Now the company claims that the entire downtown is a shopping mall, under its absolute control, without any civil rights. It has barred photography by the public, and insists that it has the right to treat citizens as mere customers.
"I couldn't believe it," says Py, 43, who knew through his old sales job that Montgomery County had made a huge public investment in the new downtown. County tax dollars accounted for $100 million of the $400 million it took to transform the area. "There's all kinds of county activities there, promoted by county money. How could this be private?"

The same question bothers County Council member Marc Elrich. "Considering the county paid for it, it ought to be a public space," he says. "We invest a lot of police time and county resources there."

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