Interesting Links for 02-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• JCPenney Responds to Homophobic Boycott Calls with Gay Father's Day Ad
  (tags: advertising usa lgbt )
• Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran - including Stuxnet
  (tags: iran internet war usa obama )
• CEREBUS: High Society - Special Audio/Visual Digital Edition Kickstarter
  (tags: kickstarter dave_sim cerebus )
• Responsive Mode and Layout View in Firefox 15 - two new neat tools for web devs
  (tags: design web firefox )

Comments

[xenophanean.livejournal.com]

God, planning to introduce Cerebus to a new generation, I thought that loony (Dave Sim) had long ago imploded into his own misogynistic singularity. I suppose it was certianly interesting, wonder if they'll re-publish the letters pages (which were really quite something).

[andrewducker]

From a comics history point of view, few people were as wildly inventive, creative, and constantly pushing what you can do in a comic as Sim was.

Personally, I'd cut out the text bits from Reads, and then stop the book at issue 200, but the sheer breadth of imagination and the quality of the work up until that point stands with anything else ever produced in the medium.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Whuh. I had bet on stuxnet being israeli, just because innovative, rash, and competent all seemed a lot more of an israeli military thing than american. Assuming the article is accurate (??), I guess I completely forgot that, whether you think he was more or less evil than Bush, Obama did bring a veneer of competence to the efforts...

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised by the cyber-attacks, but I think our government is playing a very dangerous game.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

It's rare for a secret to last indefinitely.
With all the history in the education of the better brass, why isn't "What do we do when this comes out?" SOP in planning a project like this?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

few people were as wildly inventive, creative, and constantly pushing what you can do in a comic as Sim was.

Well, yes. Unmedicated schizophrenia will do that for you.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. You do need the talent to go with it though, if you're not going to just scrawl random shapes with your own faeces.