syrinx

This guy used to draw Too Much Coffee Man for the local newspaper and was a contact for my daughter when she first moved here and did her comic strip in the local newspaper. Of course, TMCM isn't in this particular panel, for some reason...

Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler
© 2009 Shannon Wheeler - All Rights Reserved.

tags: comics culture nostalgia man slacker too much coffee caffeine

Folks at the InfoSecurity Conference in London are trying to get a little free publicity with this little blurb on the Scientific American news bytes feed:

Organizers of the Infosecurity Europe computer security trade show were alarmed to discover this week that 121 of 576 subway riders (21 percent) at London's Liverpool Street Station were prepared to reveal their computer passwords in return for a chocolate bar.

tags: culture security passwords pop references chocolate

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/63858/

Polemic in reference to Michael Medved's "Inconvenient Truths" regarding slavery and why the US brand of slavery was only following a rich Greco-Roman civilization/cultural heritage. Only thing missing was Barbara Bush's comment about Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston football stadium indicating that most of them were underprivileged, so this was working out well for them. Although the argument that African slaves benefited from their exposure to Western civilization was put forth by Medved....

tags: pain politics culture slavery apologists nonapologists idiots michaelmedved torture stupidty capitalism neurologicalpain

. . . happened upon an interesting cultural note regarding the Chinese word "Long" which has been translated into English as "dragon".

The version of "dragon", which has long been used to symbolize China's image, has become a focus of attention recently. Some experts have reportedly suggested stopping the use of the word "dragon" as the image of China so as to shun misconception in the West, for the version of dragon in English poses a colossus or a huge monster with an air of belligerency and domineering, and such an image would possibly fill any aliens who do not an adequate understanding of the Chinese history or culture, with some undue implications.

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tags: chinese dragon culture