Monthly Archives: March 2011

Bad Comic Panels #6: General Fang two-in-one

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Dehumanizer

I could have stretched this one into two separate posts, but since they would both concern the very same character (again, much like Karl Kort, never seen again after this story, sadly), and are from the same story, I chose … Continue reading →

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The Hobbit (ZX Spectrum, 1982), and how a kid became a geek

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Note: this post is expanded from one in my old blog, The Games of My Life. Back in time, to a 1982 game I played in 1983, on my first computer (well, technically my father’s), a 48K ZX Spectrum: Melbourne … Continue reading →

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Bad Comic Panels #5: “You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!”

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Dehumanizer

No, I won’t go into detail about this panel, or the… story… behind that infamous phrase. For that, I refer you to an article titled, quite informatively, The Stark, Existential Horror of Tarot #53. Mostly safe for work, but you’ll … Continue reading →

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Bad Comic Panels #4: “a pretty young lady can always be of help — just by keeping the men’s morale up!”

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Yes, if your sense of humor is anything near mine, you may be grinning already, after reading the dialog above. But, for the full effect, this entry in the Bad Comic Panels series requires a little more background. So, Fantastic … Continue reading →

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AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Being still less than a month old, it’s normal that I keep looking at this blog‘s stats quite often, and one of the most interesting bits — especially if you care about SEO — is the top search keyphrases list. … Continue reading →

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Bad Comic Panels #3: “It’s a membership card in a subversive Communist-front organization!”

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Comics, like all forms of art, are a product of their times. In the early 60s, American mentality was still mostly based on the 50s, with their sexism(1), and a huge dose of paranoia, especially in relation to Communism and … Continue reading →

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More on Google vs. Bing, and the “7-day-long Bing trial”

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Dehumanizer

After my last couple of posts looking at the comparative hits between Google and Bing and investigating the reasons for the huge discrepancy (Bing bringing me a puny 2-3% of Google’s hits), I’m still curious about this subject. So far, … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 2: positions)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

In my previous post, Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1), I showed how three of my sites — a recent US-hosted blog in English, a popular Portugal-hosted forum in Portuguese, and a search engine-weak US-hosted aggregator in English … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Having been interested in SEO for a long time, one of the things I naturally do is look at how many people are coming from the several search engines. While many people seem to care only about hits from Google, … Continue reading →

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When is nudity “art”, and when is it porn?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Dehumanizer

“Yeah, but…” Fred Colon hesitated here. He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a … Continue reading →

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