Day: December 9, 2006

Hackers On The Net – 1

This is the start of the most significant blog posts I can ever possibly make. It’s about the most incredible and amazing magazine article I ever read, or ever could read, published in my lifetime. It predicted the future with uncanny accuracy. It’s about people who said, “This is what we are going to do.” And they did it.

Let me show you an example of what I’m talking about. Here is a laptop for accessing the Net.

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The year? 1972. That isn’t a typo. I’m talking about the year of the Watergate break-in. More in Part 2, coming up.

Political Prejudice

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I’m prejudiced against political cartoonists who introduce a regular comic strip. Comic strips done by someone who is primarily a political cartoonist are invariably bad. For example, I think Mike Peters consistently has some of the best ideas for political cartoons, yet “Mother Goose and Grimm” is consistently awful.

I also believe the opposite is true — that people born to create comic strip characters aren’t good political cartoonists. For example, above is the best-known example from Bill Watterson’s brief foray in the genre. Who remembers the Jimmy Carter killer bunny incident?