News You Can Bruise for 2003 September 15

Aaron Swap Swartz writes:

Because this scrambling letters except for the first and last thing seems to be all the rage on the blogs, I thought I'd write a EoM add-on.

And so he has. Thanks, Aaron. The Eater Of Meaning: your trivial text transformation testbed!

My coworker Dan Rall has found a mechanic that offers "Some Day Service".

Brendan brought to my attention that Scott McCloud, possibly the only cartoonist to be lampooned in a Tonight's Episode (what, you're going to check?), has in an act of preemptive revenge gone back in time and ripped off Dada Pokey with Five Card Nancy. A non-Scott McCloud person implemented a nice CGI that lets you build a never-ending Nancy strip by selecting from randomly-presented panels. This would be a really good mode for Dada Pokey.

I keep going to the Five Card Nancy CGI, building some stuff, then getting bored and quitting. It's like a game of FreeCiv, but much quicker. Here are my best ones so far: Short attention span Nancy, hyperactive Nancy.

40 pictures from Utah. The ones from the trilobite hunt got corrupted, unfortunately. Mom, would you send me any of yours that you've scanned (esp. the one w/me and the shark)? As always, my favorites follow in a list.

• Salda in a sandwich
• We built this dinosaur from scratch.
• We tried to stop her, kind of.
• Me with an enormous turtle!
• Jon and Susana in their kitchen
• Atticus can be a little melodramatic.
• My last picture of Lejeune, a great one with Susanna.