Lil' Bush, hilarious webtoon, derivative of Li'l Bill and Hill and friends?
Cory's new podcast: 0wnz0red
I've just posted part one of my new podcast, for my story 0wnz0red, a story about trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body. It was originally published on Salon, a reprinted in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More. 0wnz0red was a runner up for the Nebula Award in 2003, and has been widely reprinted.
Bruce Schneier, Bruce Sterling at USC, Sept 25 & 26
Bruce Schneier and Bruce Sterling are coming to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School at the end of September as part of my Fulbright Chair.
I can see his point -- the similariti
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The creator of the genius webtoon Li'l Bill and Hill and Friends (which portrayed Bill Clinton and cabinet as wee hellions bent on making trouble) is mightly pissed at copycat Lil' Bush, which delivers webtoons about GWB and his cabinet as wee hellions bent on making trouble to mobile phones. |
| Ten years in the Valley, and all Murray Swain had to show for it was a spare tire, a bald patch, and a life that was friendless and empty and maggoty-rotten. His only ever California friend, Liam, had dwindled from a tubbaguts programmer-shaped potato to a living skeleton on his death-bed the year before, herpes blooms run riot over his skin and bones in the absence of any immunoresponse. The memorial service featured a framed photo of Liam at his graduation, his body was donated for medical science. |