I love Google Reader.
I love Instapaper.
And InstaReader makes both of them even more awesome and convenient.
What’s InstaReader?
InstaReader is a free service that sends anything you star in Google Reader to Instapaper.
You don’t even have to give InstaReader your Google sign-in if you make your GReader Starred Items public.
Terrific.
I love this fantasy series, and while I am rapidly losing hope that we’ll ever see the end of it, I am excited by this latest bit of news about HBO’s televisionization of the story.
David J. Peterson, an expert language creator from the Language Creation Society (LCS), has been chosen to create the Dothraki language for HBO’s upcoming fantasy series GAME OF THRONES, based on the book series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by George R.R. Martin.
Peterson drew inspiration from George R.R. Martin’s description of the language, as well as from such languages as Russian, Turkish, Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili. However, the Dothraki language is no mere hodgepodge, babble or pidgin. It has its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure.
“In designing Dothraki, I wanted to remain as faithful as possible to the extant material in George R.R. Martin’s series,” says Peterson. “Though there isn’t a lot of data, there is evidence of a dominant word order [subject-verb-object], of adjectives appearing after nouns, and of the lack of a copula [‘to be']. I’ve remained faithful to these elements, creating a sound aesthetic that will be familiar to readers, while giving the language depth and authenticity. My fondest desire is for fans of the series to look at a word from the Dothraki language and be unable to tell if it came from the books or from me — and for viewers not even to realize it’s a constructed language.”
Love it.
Now just release the 5th book and all will be well.
One of my favorite comics artists from when I was a teenager does a little doodling with Sketchbook Pro on the iPad.
I’ve gotten a painter app or two for my iPad and iPhone and I’m not real impressed by it.
I’m no painter, but I just don’t feel the same kind of control over the medium. Using my stubby fingers on a non-pressure sensitive piece of glass just feels awkward.
And I’ve tried a Pogo stick, but the one I have is incredibly crappy. So bad that I must have a bad one. But I’m not willing to go buy another one just to see.
My main motivation for purchasing an art program for iPad would be to study the use and manipulation of color, something that I have very little understanding of right now.
Other than that, with the current tools available, I can’t see having the patience to WRITE a comic on the iPad, let alone drawing one!
But I’d love to have that change.
I thought this was pretty funny.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it’s valuables thanks to the local police department.
I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
The Liberal American Shitheel one is pretty good, too.
I am an American conservative shitheel (kottke.org)
