A good friend of mine is starting a web-comic. He’s got a few pieces prepared but is offering you a chance to get in on the ground floor and start following his comics blog from the very first cartoon. So I’ll ask my loyal following of readers to check out:
I’m looking forward to more cartoons, and can already visualise t-shirts and merchandise featuring the cartoon protagonist with the identifiable hair. Hmmm, if that idea works out I’ll be looking for a free t-shirt!
Just think of all those idiotic questions you get asked in the average day. All those emails you respond to when really the sender should have just figured out the answer for themselves with a simple search.
Now there is a quick and easy way to get the message across, just send them a link from let me google that for you!
So say for example you were telling somebody about this blog, and they asked you what the address was, you could just send them a link to:http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=bardsworld
What a brilliantly simple, and hilarious idea! You can even join the “Let Me Google That For You” Facebook group if you’re on Facebook and want to share the love!
XKCD - A Webcomic - Steal this Comic
This cartoon made me laugh and also think nervously about my collection of MP3s and audio casettes that I’ve made from my CD and vinyl collection over the years. It also explains clearly why I buy MP3s DRM free from Amazon.com.
As long as the artist gets paid fairly and as long as I don’t sell it or give it away without paying the artist again, or use it in broadcast or performance without broadcast rights does it really matter how many personal copies I make? I could play a single CD in my computer, in my car, and in my hi-fi by carrying it around with me, but I don’t have a CD player in my car, and might not want to run up and down stairs all day trading CDs between my computer and the hi-fi…but I only listen to one device at a time, so it could still be 1 usage!
This cartoon is lovingly pirated wholesale from the XKCD website, click the image above to go to the brilliant XKCD website itself!
I’d been out to lunch, and as I was getting back into my car 3 lads shouted
“F@ck World of Warcraft”
at me from across the street and proceeded to get into their (work supplied) pick-up truck, laughing.
I found myself wondering if it would be worthwhile mentioning to them that my license plate is “The Bard” not because of Word of Warcraft, or even because of this blog title, but because my hometown is home to the most famous bard of them all, William Shakespeare!
Then I realised that 3 kids in baseball caps and ripped jeans driving a construction pick-up truck weren’t likely to have heard of Shakespeare, and if they had maybe they knew something I didn’t and Shakespeare did play World of Warcraft!
