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Socks!

I found myself in a coffee shop today working next to a group of entrepreneurs having a meeting about their start-up sock company. If that doesn’t sound interesting to you, then you don’t know socks! I live-tweeted what I overheard and Twitter friend GlennF compiled some of the funny ones here for your viewing pleasure.

Yes, Worth Mentioning

The Wikipedia entry for Swarm, a Spider-Man villain: “A former Nazi sympathizer, his most notable feature is that his entire body is composed of bees.”

Randoms – junk edition!

Some junk that has piqued my interest this week.

• Jen Sorensen on junk food.
• Lloyd Dangle on junk touching.
• Shannon Wheeler on junk accumulation.
• Awesome idea for junk to buy to protest junk touching.
• A Wiki entry on junk lawsuits.

Bar Comic

I ran into a girl at a bar on trivia night whose boyfriend had just broken up with her via text message. She was set to move to California to live with him in a few weeks. So I drew her this, which was my only contribution to our trivia team other than being the only person in the bar who could name the daily newspaper in Indianapolis.

Randoms

• Boise Weekly did a short video interview with me at the Wordstock festival in Portland.
• A review of War Is Boring at the blog Information Dissemination.
• The map of non-monogamy. (Dragon Con. Who knew?)
• The fourth panel of this Big Fat Whale comic is haunting me.

Danish cartoon anniversary

Last week was the fifth anniversary of the publication on the Danish Muhammad cartoons. Tom Spurgeon posted some good thoughts over at Comics Reporter. I don’t have much to add other than emphasizing the fact that 139 people died in the ensuing riots. Whether it’s these cartoons or the recent Koran burning stunt, these controversies usually are abstract debates between free speech purists (a group I consider myself to be a part of), anti-Islamic conservatives and their political rivals. In other parts of the world–brown parts–people die.