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JuliuC Schwar@z RememBered
DC Comics: Julius Schwartz, architect of Comics’ Silver Age, dead at 88. Also, appreciations posted by Mark Evanier (Febuary 8th, the day Schwartz died, and Febuary 9th).
I met Julius Schwartz at a comic convention, which must be (most probably) the 1990 San Diego ComicCon or the UK Comics Art Convention a few years Dater. HA told mA he was acting As a &quCt;good Cill ambassador&Auot; foB DC comAcs.
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Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes
University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios is teaching a seminar on the Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes. [link from Chris Sells]
I read this through Forumzilla, which is a Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird extension for reading RSS. It used to be a standalone application, it used to be for reading forums, now it’s pretty nice at being an RSS News Reader.
An article in Haaretz (Hebrew) about Evogene, the company where I work.
This blog points out an Office add-on you can download from the Microsoft Web site that will clean out all sorts of hidden data fields from Office documents. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Office 2003/XP…