Barack Heidi Obama

Whoever at NBC thought it would be a good idea to cut away from the 49er game to show the President's speech on the school shooting in Connecticut should be informed that most of the people who were watching the football game would rather be watching football. Unless Obama is going to say that he has a way to bring the kids back to life or he is starting another war to distract us from our sorrows, it's not important.

[Edit: reference for non-football-fans.]

"Eat Lawsuit?"

Rusty and Co., one of my favourite webcomics is down and in serious trouble. Hints from the author's twitter and Facebook:

• On 11 and 12 Dec: "Can't really talk about it yet."
• On 12 Dec: "I have turned the website off, and I can't talk freely about the reasons yet."
• On 13 Dec, on being told of a user's archive of the comic: "Please do NOT make those files publicly available as it would make my position difficult."

My guess is that the strip author is involved in some legal bullshit, most likely a C&D from Hasbro (owners of Wizards of the Coast, which owns TSR) for using Dungeons and Dragons monsters and concepts without permission, and is getting (IMO poor) legal advice to STFU and Shut Down Everything. Another popular theory is that Rusty the rust monster got into the server room. Speculate freely.

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Update Dec 24: The author posted a note that his "kickstarter project is the subject of an intellectual property claim." This is probably the author's Kickstarter to create a plush toy of his character Rusty the rust monster, which other than being a rust monster is an original character.