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The latest installment in Bill Willingham’s astonishingly, consistently great, long-running graphic novel series Fables is volume 17: Inherit the Wind. The premise of Fables lets its creators use any mythos, any tradition, any narrative, and mix and match as necessary, and Willingham and his illustrators continue to show that these possibilities are indeed endless. While

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Fables 17: Inherit the Wind

Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses is an inspired collection of stickers from one of the world’s most iconic sticker artists. Ron English designed the iconic Ronald McDonald parody for Super-Size Me, and has built his reputation on grotesque, trenchant, and funny graphic attacks on corporate logos and marketing. The book opens with English’s reminiscence of

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Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses: Wacky Packages meets AdBusters

The beach at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Photo: BBM Explorer I had my vasectomy on January 19, 2012, the date memorialized with the iCal notation “Vascect [sic] no lunch 34th st.” At this writing the objects in question are still apparently live, pumping out spermatozoa like a dying pulsar that will soon dwindle into white

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The Big V

A bunch of people sit and stand around at CES. Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was dull, giving reporters at the show time to write interesting offbeat coverage. Stars in the firmament of boredom included Mat Honan, Brian Lam, and the marvelous CESTrailer Twitter account. Every year, however, readers

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What it’s like at CES

Photos by Carl Carruthers, Jr. When the B-17 Aluminum Overcast appeared on the horizon above a Houston suburb sky last week, her shape was immediately recognizable. She was curvy, substantial and down right gorgeous. At almost 70 years old, she was also a little creaky and sputtered and smoked a bit as she pulled in

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A flight on a B-17

The dilemma of how to reconcile the needs of security with the desire for humanity is the defining question of the twenty-first century. This sentence opens my thesis, “Loss Prevention: Customer Service as Border Security,” written for the strategic foresight and innovation program that I just graduated. I decided to write about the future of

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Surfaces – a short story for a thesis on border security

Introduction Maggie Koerth-Baker The Polar regions of the Arctic and the Antarctic are both cold. Beyond that, you can’t really talk about conditions at one pole based on the conditions at the other. Case in point: Sea ice. Since 1979, there’s been a significant decrease in Arctic sea ice—about 4% per decade—correlated closely to an

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Under the Ice: Research Diving in Antarctica

Sony’s latest ultraportable laptop is stunning. It’s beautiful and lightweight, with a classy metal chassis and impeccably tasteful trim. It has a powerful i7 CPU, 1600×900 13.1″ display and a lightning-fast SSD. It’s half a pound lighter than the competition. And it exemplifies everything that is wrong with its creator

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What the Vaio Z says about Sony’s little design problem