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Jun. 26th, 2009
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Jun. 26th, 2009 12:00 pm-
A lovely little sad story. Well worth 5 minutes of your time.
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Shock, horror, disciminating by race is illegal.
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I wanted to do a 20th anniversary story and it broke mostly because DC Comics would have loved me to do a 20th anniversary story at the same terms that were agreed upon in 1987 when I was a 26-year-old unknown. And my thought was, 'You know what guys, it really doesn't work like that.' I wasn't going to do a deal at the same terms we had in 1987 and they were not willing to do any better than that.
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That's from advertising. £80,000 in total. Plus £170,000 in premium subscriber fees. So an average of 45p per user coming in. I'm not sure that's terribly economic...
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There ya go, something to knock racist arguments on the head with.
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A Stanford researcher has spliced light-sensitive algae genes into human brain cells to fire neurons when activated by a laser.
Neologism of the day
Jun. 26th, 2009 04:42 pmHuxleyed: To have died with a degree of fame or notoriety that would have guaranteed extensive media coverage, save for the death of someone even more famous or notorious immediately afterwards. From Aldous Huxley, who died an hour before President Kennedy was assassinated. Usage: "Farrah Fawcett was completely Huxleyed by Michael Jackson."
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