Last week’s final Monday Doodle
Last week’s Monday Doodle (and titled “Brain Explosion”) has been finished. The doodle has been uploaded to the products at the Dead Pocket Shop as well.
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If you like iPhone wallpapers
If you’re the kind of Dead Pocket visitor that likes iPhone (or iPod Touch) wallpapers, you might like these. Because they’re iPhone wallpapers. Of doodles.
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Here’s the tough part…
So, the toughest part about making the Don’t Eat This webcomic has to be making these kinds of choices:
But, life is full of tough choices. Whether we pick straws, use a sophisticated mathematics formula, or employ a pros and cons list to narrow our options, sooner or later the choice has to be made.
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The Flugelslug Redrawn
The Flugelslug originally appeared on a Packbot Set 2 Dead Pocket Trading Card. Since then he’s kept pretty quiet, preferring a private life of seclusion over the glitz and glamour of the spotlight.
Legend says that the Flugelslug was created in a dark laboratory with one simple purpose: to eliminate the Packbots. The Flugelslug was said to possess the ability to mimic any sound with flawless accuracy. So, yeah, he does a great Christopher Walken impression. Take that, Packbot!
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New Life for Old Technology
Instead of discarding or neglecting your antique technology, try giving it new life. It would thank you if it could. This is Angus. He is (or was) a floppy disk.
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The Undercouch
by Holly R.I’ve heard tales of bunnies that live in the dust
But under my couch my own eyes I do trust
No bunnies I see when I look down below
An Undercouch lair of dust beast seems to growIn a dark corner a gargoyle is hiding
The back of a T-Rex a cyclops is riding
Dragons and Trolls and Centaurs and Ogres
All kinds of fiends made of dust and left oversThey guard all their treasures of things long forgotten
Hordes of buttons and coins and some candy that’s rotten
Marbles and keys, a ribbon that is blue
A T.V. remote and a lone barbie shoeA Titan called Dad came one terrible day
Wielding cruel weapons of broom and dust tray
He pulled out the couch revealing the lair
He savagely plundered the loot he found thereHe readied his weapon, oh the carnage, the gore
With one fell sweep the dust beasts were no more
The lair now empty, every corner is clear
No treasure, no brutes nor a dragons left earI miss them today but one thing I did learn
The Undercouch beasts will always return©2012 Holly R. All rights Reserved.
Will
The Groopga and the Lux
The Groopga is green,
And the Lux is baby blue.
The Groopga can be mean,
And the Lux can be, too.The Groopga likes fries,
And the Lux likes fish.
The Groopga makes a mess,
And the Lux makes a wish.The Groopga found a box,
And the Lux found a lid.
So the Groopga and the Lux,
Climbed inside and hid.
Scott
Tomorrow, in Protest
Tomorrow, in protest of legislation proposed in the United States which has some potential impact on websites that I don’t care to understand, Wikipedia is planning to shut down the English version of its website.
There are two major problems with this decision. First, the ramifications go far beyond the fact that I’ll have to use Google instead of Wikipedia to search for stuff. The collateral damage will cut straight to the heart of higher education. Second, cutting off the supply of information for random stuff that you aren’t too worried about getting exactly right is downright un-American. And, being American is something that the entire planet should seek to emulate… especially any English (or rather, American) speaking people.
In the absence of an English version of Wikipedia, secondary and higher education students in English speaking countries will not be able to write any papers, discussion board topics, or complete any assignments that require any sort of data or facts. Since Wikipedia entries are at the top of just about every Google search (George Washington, Christmas, The Boxer Rebellion, etc.) students will have to just guess as to which result is likely to contain the most accurate information. We’ll be back in the dark ages of AOL search keywords. The existing education system is built on the premise that you can get whatever information that you need from Wikipedia because books are outdated, cumbersome, and stuck on shelves in places way far from your keyboard. With just a day left before the information blackout, libraries across the US just don’t have time to verify that their books even work anymore.
Wikipedia is the only home for information on topics that you don’t really care about but it’s cool to know. Where else can you spend half an hour reading about the Great Wall of China, and afterwards not know anything new about it because the details were either never explained in a context that you could commit to memory or because you didn’t trust them enough (how much stock do YOU put in chinatavelguide.com as a reference?) to hassle with actually learning those details? The true crime here is that ancillary learning, or “Learning for Entertainment Purposes” as we say here at Dead Pocket, will be put to death for 24 hours (and then resurrected again). Wikipeida is the place where you can learn just enough about a subject to not understand it but recite enough relevant information that people think you do. Tomorrow, we will not be able to mask our ignorance. While Wikipedia itself may be available on Thursday, there will be no undoing how ignorant you may sound without it.
Wikipedia’s website suggests that we communicate with our representatives to curb the pending legislation. I say, let someone else do that. You need to work to solidify that you are the only English speaking person with access to all of Wikipedia’s demi-knowledge tomorrow. You have two options. First, you can frantically copy as many articles as possible into the word processor on your computer. If you don’t have a word processor or can’t use the copy/paste functionality on your laptop, learn to speak another language (only one supported by Wikipedia). Hurry.
Will
Ready For Class
Poor, old Slyvia Jean,
She wanted to stretch at the barre.
First a “creak,” then a “crack,”
And now she can stretch twice as far.kurt
Will
Monday Doodles
Each Monday, Will shares whatever doodle came along that day. Check out the Dead Pocket Facebook page to see them each week. Here are a few:
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The 2011 Dead Pocket Station Almanac is here!
Hello dear Dead Pocketeers! The new 60-page ultra-groovy 2011 Dead Pocket Station Almanac is here at long last.
You can download your own PDF copy of the almanac HERE. Or here. In either instance they’re the same. We hope you enjoy.
Scott
2011 In Review
2011 was a banner year for democracy. Osama Bin Laden was brought to justice, and Fidel Castro resigned from power. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, all saw major revolutions. Oprah Winfrey aired her last show. Refugees from the galaxy Kobol-5 were granted “Official Visitor” status by the United Nations.
It’s the last item that I would like to touch on before the year draws to a close. Many Americans are behind the rest of the world’s population on their knowledge of geo-political issues, and it just takes a few minutes on the UN’s website to educate oneself.
As indicated in the “International Law” section of the United Nation’s website, Extra-terrestrial visitor status has been granted to several species in the past 12 years, but never to a race under persecution. There have been many reasons that the UN has been unable to help in the past, ranging from our severe lack of weapons technology to outright bigotry. With the help of Swedish Visitor Advocate Oskak Svensson and large monetary contributions from Carlos Helu’, Bill Gates, and Lawrence Ellison the UN was able to move forward with Visitor relationships over the past four year culminating in the awarding of “Official Visitor” status this year to special Kobal-5 populations.
There were two major catalysts in this rapid progression. First, the UN’s Military Support division was able to retro-fit all United States Space Shuttles with advanced mass destruction weapons based on information gathered from previous visiting races. Subsequently the United States agreed to retire its space shuttle program and move all shuttle operations to China, where the UN will continue to grow and cultivate the interstellar defense program. With the UN finally able to pose a significant interplanetary threat to outside races, we have enough negotiating leverage to help galactic refugees. The only disappointing aspect to these events was the still tenuous Unites States / China relationship. President Obama believed that working with the Chinese and UN on this program would hurt his re-election campaign, so he chose instead to call the Shuttle Program re-location a “retirement” caused by the program’s “Unsustainable negative economic impact” on the federal government.
Second, Oskak Svensson was able to convince most major media outlets that television shows and movies depicting visitors as “aliens” from “outer space” who come to Earth as war-mongers was negatively affecting the UN’s ability to move forward with health and productive visitor relationships. Subsequently, conglomerates such as AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Sony, and Walt Disney pulled programs from television including “V” in the United States, and compelled critics to hand sully reviews to movies already released such as “Battle: Los Angeles.” Even Will Smith, star of the well-remembered movie “Independence Day” (1996) spoke out about his role in what has amounted to a myopic perception of extra-terrestrial visitors.
“If I had it to do all over again, I would probably ask for them (producers) to include more relatable alien characters”, Smith said at an interview in late June. “I mean, it wouldn’t have been too hard to include a couple of side-kicks or something like that. Just some characters that could accurately reflect the visitors that I’ve had a chance to meet. I mean, a lot of these visitors are just like me. At least the ones that are actors”.
The movement has been so successful that Svensson has pursued a reality show. Due to legal agreements with the UN and Kobol-5, pre-production has been put on hold until the refugees have a more certain future.
For now, we can be excited that the UN is finally participating in inter-galactic politics, and that we are able to help our friends from Kobol-5. The World Health Organization is working with the visitors to provide them enough sustenance (each visitor eats as much as a small town every day) and be sure that we have appropriate quarantine guidelines in place for the duration of their stay (their diseases are highly communicable to every known plant and animal subspecies as well as most types of dirt).
– Scott
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