Strip Update: Stripped and Gagged #3

Strip Update: Stripped and Gagged #2

Strip Update: Stripped and Gagged #1

Strip Update: S.O.P. #5

Heads up: I’ve rounded out the site’s back end. (Hey, what!) When a new strip is published, a brief post is now made to the blog. This means the comic now takes advantage of WordPress’s robust RSS/Atom features.

Bottom line: If you subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed, you get notified when a new strip is up. I’ve added an RSS link to the site nav in the top corner. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

S.O.P. #4

I admit, I’ve never been into podcasts. I usually turn off the sound on my computer (my home desktop doesn’t even have speakers) and I don’t own an MP3 player. But even an anti-geek like me swims into a trotline once in a while. (more…)

I’m a bit late posting the strip today. To appease those of you currently chewing the corners of your LCDs with riotous impatience, allow me to direct your tear-chapped eyeballs to a webcomic called We The Robots. It’s a flaky little morsel of tart cynicism by an animator and card-maker named Chris Harding. It presently tops my own “chewing the LCD till it’s updated” list. Enjoy it with a hot drink or a cold, bitter draught.

I saw that new 3D Beowulf movie last week. The one where name actors like Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie had their performances captured by a computer and mapped onto CGI versions of themselves. I thought it was a fun, cheesy adventure flick. I’ve talked to others about it since then, however, and come to one conclusion: It’s time to retire the term “uncanny valley.” Honestly, is it so hard to say “the facial expressions aren’t animated enough” or “the eyes don’t catch the camera” or “the horses move like a three-frame hentai sequence”? No, we have to drop the Uncanny Valley into the conversation, which simultaneously makes us sound informed and absolves us of actually thinking about the CGI in question.

Unfortunately we can’t wish away a meme that’s attached itself like a tick to our media discourse. But we can dilute it with corresponding terms for other phenomena. To that end, I humbly submit the following lexicon of creepy Valleys:

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