Last year I around this time, I thought it would be fun to have a Talk Like Jack Burton Day. A friend of mine suggested it should fall on Chinese New Year, which I think was a brilliant idea. So here we are, a year later, it’s the Chinese New Year and now also the first annual Talk Like Jack Burton Day. Now go do what ol’ Jack Burton would do, and run your mouth …
Automatically Convert Articles to Audio And Save to Dropbox
Use your Mac’s built-in text-to-speech engine to read articles to you, or save them as mp3 files.
The answer to gun violence is not more guns
I had originally shared the following with only a few friends on Facebook. However, after the NRA’s stunningly tone-deaf and idiotic press conference today I feel the need to say it publicly. Humanity has already lived through countless eras where every person armed themselves with lethal weapons as a matter of necessity. The human race has worked very, very hard over millennia to change that. We have progressed to a point where personal weapons are no longer …
New comics posted
I’ve posted several new comics at Horde of Neurons. I’ve also put up a new episode of Meager Panic.
Easily Prevent Hotlinking
This morning on Twitter I saw Andrew Gregoire (@IAmARG) tweet about seeing comic images – not just a link – displayed on http://webcomicbox.com with ads stripped. I could rant for a few paragraphs about what’s wrong with this, but I’ll sum it by saying: poaching content without permission is not cool. Webcomicbox hotlinks* to these comic images. That means Webcomicbox loads images directly from the creators site to display inside Webcomicbox. Well now, we can get …