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Impending move, in many senses.

In one, the summer has flown by,
too fast,
and I’m left anticipating that too-soon departure;
again into that impenetrable wilderness.

In another, less frightening way,
I may transport this bloggy realm;
ineffective though it may be,
over to precision effect.
Ineffective more speedily.

As for cool art,
I highly recommend checking out
the art of Barnaby Ward.
His sloppy lines,
tough (if skinny) women,
and long-limbed robot monsters,
make for a winning combination (plus he has an alice gallery).

Sinfest started on the 17th of January, 2000, with decent black and white art and a couple interesting characters. Since then, it has evolved to become one of the most well-polished, consistent, and funny webcomics I read. I’ve just been catching up a bit. Considering that Sinfest updates with near perfect consistency, seven days a week, there’s plenty there to look at, and nearly 2500 strips to read if you want to start from the beginning. There’s plenty of schwag too, if you’re in for that sort of thing.

The strip pictured is one of the sunday strips, larger and in color, with a different style. I love the styling on Monique in the “of love” panel, though for some reason it makes me think of Final Fantasy games. Honestly, one of things I like about Sinfest is that it does a great job of being a really sexy comic, without ever crossing the line.

If you’re interested in crossing the line, on the other hand, check out Jess Fink’s “Dirty Limericks” over at adultwebcomics.com. It is what it sounds like, so probably best not to read it anywhere you might get in trouble.

Comic Life, a comic creation program previously only for the Mac, now has a working beta for the Windows OS. Shit … I keep running out of reasons not to make a webcomic of my very own.

Riya is a visual search engine that lets you upload, tag, and search your own photos or any other photos in their index.  Pretty normal, right?  The neat part is that it has some capacity for recognizing objects, including individual faces (with some margin of error).  Once you've taught it to recognize your friends, it will automatically tag your photos that those friends are in with their names, making it easier to search for them later.  Riya can also breakdown searches into related tags, letting you jump to similar interests or narrow down your search.  The main downside right now is that all large images are automatically resized to 800×600 pixels.  And let's face it, in today's digital photophile age, that's a pretty big downside.  Adult pictures are removed, though it appears that they may rely on user-policing to mark "adult content", and I was able to find some without much effort.  In the name of science, of course.  All in all, it's a neat idea, definately in beta, but worth keeping an eye on.

The ButtKicker LFE Electromagnetic Transducer has a fancy name and a fancier purpose: to make sound move you.  Without creating any additional audio, it can be placed below or attached to your couch or chair to make you feel the bass.  At $200, I seriously need to get one of these.

Table of Malcontents is a daily read (when I have the opportunity), and has enough good stuff over the past few days that you should really just hop over there and check it out.  But if you need my encouragement, I particularly enjoyed: Pirates and Treasure,  Modern Living/Neurotica Series (though it's super-creepy), and 787 Cliparts.

Today's Blogger Blog of Note is a lovely sketchblog by an artist named Rachel E. Morris.  Rachel is an illustration student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, though she'll be graduating this December and, I imagine, will start making her way as an artist in the world.  She describes her sketchblog as "where I will put things as I do them, before I get off my ass and stick them in the official webpage gallery."  The rest of her website is annoying to navigate, but there's definately some nice art there, so I recommend gritting your teeth and checking it out, if you're into that kind of thing.