xkcd

No one I know puts "scale" into perspective better than Randall Munroe at xkcd. If you haven't seen the latest, you should take the time to dive into what may be his largest image ever (and he's known for creating large images) dealing with money.

It appears that xkcd has decided to do a modern update on the Shel Silverstein classic, The Giving Tree, in the age of DRM:

This week's favorites of the week post comes from :Lobo Santo.

It first bears mentioning my very favorite article every week since its inception is "Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt".

Primarily because I'm always hoping to 'place' on it again. Even without my nigh-lackluster comments, it's nice to see what the 'wisdom of the masses' pushed into the most insightful and funniest categories.

About a year ago, we had a discussion about some comments made by Garry Trudeau, the creator of the comic strip Doonesbury, which has been an institution for 40 years or so.

That post was in response to claims by Trudeau that the web was no place for comics to make money, and that the only hope for comics in the new digital era was to have the newspapers "come to their senses" and gate off all internet content behind a paywall of some sort.

He effectively was looking for ways to turn the new world back into the old.

Tech Drive-in: "Xkcd needs no introduction especially if you are a geek(whatever that means). It's among my favorite pastime along with those super silly games we introduced to you before."

Ah, you kids that were born after 1990 probably have no idea what horrors us geeks of old had to endure in the early days of the Internet.