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Questionable Content, one of my favorite web comics! It was nice of you to mention it, but I'm not quite sure what it has to do with TBP.

This means that if they are convicted it may be illegal to have links to questionable content.

Like this?

This means that if they are convicted it may be illegal to have links to questionable content.

http://questionablecontent.net

Wow... if it ever becomes illegal to do this, then I'm in big trouble...

Now what'd Jeph Jacques ever do to you???

Damn.

Staht Da Reactah! http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1312

Don't look a gift lion in the mouth.

If we had a world without copyright, then you could say goodbye to mass media as we know it. All the book companies would dry up tomorrow. As would the music studios and the movie companies.

Instead we'd live in a world where content is created and paid for:
* by the creators who do it because they love it. E.g. Star Trek: New Voyages.
* Those who refuse to create unless paid up front through donations. E.g. The Guild
* People who use their creation as an advertisement for hard to reproduce goods such as t-shirts. E.g. Questionable Content
* People who perform live such as in concerts or theatres.

In fact I think if we lost copyright we'd completely lose the movie theatre (whose experience is now up shit creek) and would see a boom in live theatre. I think we could stand a chance where we live in a world that has Star Trek episodes performed in theatres rather then on televisions.

The draw would become seeing it in person, as well as getting the story. These groups would also film a closed session and put it on the internet for free after a week or two as a form of advertisement.

In such a world only a very few would be able to afford to live off the fruits of their labour.

Like Pintsize and Winslow from the webcomic "Questionable Content"

Take a look:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1222

Comix:
Ctrl-Alt-Del http://www.cad-comic.com/
Diesel Sweeties http://dieselsweeties.com/
Questionable Content http://www.questionablecontent.net/
Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/
xkcd http://xkcd.com/

Blogs:
Warren Ellis http://www.warrenellis.com/
Thighs Wide Shut http://thighswideshut.org/
Kids with Guns http://patrickben.livejournal.com/

Geeky Blogs/Mags:
Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/
Cool Hunting
365 Tomorrows
Grinding.be http://grinding.be/
io9 http://io9.com/
Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/
Slashdot
Wired http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml
AppleInsider http://www.appleinsider.com/
Macenstein http://macenstein.com/default
The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://www.tuaw.com/
Macworld http://www.macworld.com/

Dirty Stuff:
Fleshbot http://fleshbot.com/tag/straight
FlickrBabes http://flickrbabes.com/
UseMyComputer http://usemycomputer.com/
Homocidal Insomniac http://homicidalinsomniac.blogspot.com/

News:
Salon http://www.salon.com/

I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny Strange humour about bunnies.
QC Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip is... a head trip.
FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.

Here are the ones I read, and I see no reason to be ashamed of any of them. If you don't like them, no one is forcing you to read them.

• Questionable Content
• Penny Arcade
• Ctrl Alt Del
• PvP Online
• VG Cats
• XKCD
• Cyanide & Happiness

*Ctrl-Alt-Delete
http://www.cad-comic.com/rss/rss.xml
Stupid webcomic
*Looking for Group
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Least I Could Do
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Linux Kernel
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml
(no explanation)
*NationStates
http://69.60.14.82/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?nation=windhelm
A sort of game where you have to govern a nation. I develops based on the laws you vote.
*Questionable Content
http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml
Webcomic
*The Book of Biff
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBookOfBiff
Webcomic
*The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml
Webcomic (not updated i a looong time)
*VG Cats
http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
Stupid and bad webcomic
*xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
FANTASTIC webcomic
*Linux Journal
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom
I dunno why it's in there. I like the articles
*Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
I guess that's about it. I'm going to delete a couple of webcomics though. Some are just too awful.

>it's like someone created Internet Troll: The MMOG.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=176
Don't worry about the name, it's meant to be work-safe except for crude humor.

If the guy has done something like viewed child porn, rape, murder, torture etc (probably repeatedly) or knowingly caused the death of someone online or other stuff (repeatedly), he probably doesn't want anyone to know. Or it's possible he just made a snap decision.

If you found out your brother likes viewing kids being abused in Japanese anime yet has not harmed anyone in life let alone a kid plus he hasn't told anyone else of his shame, what would your perception of him be?

I've read some horror stories of people killing themselves for no reason. One of the sources I remember clearly http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=504 (Spoiler warning for those that haven't read it)

Good luck cracking, from experience, nothing I can say will stop the curious from seeking.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=963 The anomaly is explained.

They're +5 Delicious!

hmm.. reducto ad absurdm and godwins law, this reminds me so much of that Questionable Content comic.

Hmm, I've never used cokemachineglow.com before, I'll check it out as soon as I'm done this post =D

While pitchfork has it's issues, it's pretty good. Found out about it(and a fair chunk of my music catalog) from Jeph Jacques's webcomic Questionable Content. He posts reviews of music on a not infrequent basis, and between them, pitchfork and word of mouth I've got a fairly hefty amount of non-RIAA stuff. If you like indie music giving his comic a read is well worth it. Not every(or even most) strips include indie references, but a decent amount of them do. =) And his commentary alongside the comic proper has some good bands.

Finally, Resident Advisor can sometime have some good stuff.

I don't suppose it's occurred to Microsoft that PHP is a perfectly valid scripting language used by a significant number of... No, of course they wouldn't. To Microsoft, real websites use ASP.NET...

I mean, I frequently send links to specific webcomics to people I know on IM, but most of the people I know are on Yahoo or something better.

Like you say, who knows if those video files are porn, home videos, secret business files, whatever.

You say that like those are different things. (And remember kiddies: removable external storage for your pr0n collection.)

Bomb The Blogosphere! http://www.questionablecontent.net/

Informed

• BBC news
• Slashdot
• Distrowatch
• Linux.com
• Newsforge
• El Tiempo

Entertained

• SA
• Digg
• Degenerate Cesspool
• CTRL+ALT+DEL
• questionablecontent.net
• halturnershow.com

Contrary to current trends, the only site out of all of those in which I participate regularly is Slashdot. I don't even have accounts on any of the other forums. Some I only really visit because it's an old habit, notably the two webcomics and eltiempo.com. And yes, Digg is firmly in the 'entertainment' column, for its AWESOME PICTURES! and INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE NEW FLASH GAMES OH EM GEE!

The very notion of the adult sector claiming that they are somehow driving global DVD sales... that's a laughable notion at best.
It really makes me wonder just how much drugs those guys shove up their nose in a day.

This comic applies: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic= 815 Those guys have far too much sex and have a sexual over load. The only metaphor that we have for their experience is drug use. Its sad that oversexed individuals are viewed the same as drug users, but hey if that's how you want to look at them.

yeah. mentioned here: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic= 718

...the sex appeal of "cute" electronics...

The point is to have gear cool enough that the chicks come to you. Also likely to make every other guy in the area green with jealousy -- if they can't see you through the cloud of chicks, but they keep hearing "Can I touch it?" in sweet, feminine voices...

This would be pretty pathetic/depraved, pretty typical of Slashdot, except that I discovered it by accident in high school, when I went to fetch my laptop and found a girl... stroking it.

Pintsize, anyone? Imagine 50 of them running around a computer lab...

Bomb the Blogosphere!


Third shirt down.

Maddox has managed it for more than five years now because "giving away content" wasn't his source of income. Now he's set to make a boatload of cash from various ventures including a book and a comic.
See also every commercial webcomic. Some go for a pure related-merchandise-for-sale approach, such as ctrl alt del, others push a little harder, like questionablecontent selling clothes that appear in comics.
And if your site doesn't fit into an easy category for making money, but does have traffic, I have three words for you: Ads by Goooooooogle. I hate these ads, but they work.
As for corporations and such, and their continued profit from the internet, I have nothing but a big Fuck You for them. The only area this discussion is even relevant to big business is newspapers. The answer for them in most cases is advertising. Others try to lock in their content. These are the ones who miss the point. Screw them. The third case is the BBC - no need to profit from the internet. This is where I go for my news.

toothpaste for dinner: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/ white ninja comics: http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/ dinosaur comics: http://www.qwantz.com/ boy on a stick and slither: http://www.boasas.com/ questionable content: http://www.questionablecontent.net/

these webcomics are so dated, there are so many new ones to consider:
- toothpaste for dinner
- natalie dee
- white ninja comics
- questionable content
- diesel sweeties

Despite a growing deficit and considerable budget concerns, the federal government will soon be paying FBI agents to surf the web in search of questionable content

http://www.questionablecontent.net/
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/
http://www.catandgirl.com/

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php
http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=631
http://www.bobandgeorge.com/Archive/Apr04.php?date =1

There must be a way to just "slip" these into the discussion, but why bother? What's the good of an article ranting about webcomics without finding new, good web comics?

When they come up with something like this

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic= 234

THEN I'll be impressed. ok.. so I am already, but hey.

Awesome stuff though!

I always did think he looked like Pintsize now.

If you like Diesel Sweeties, give Questionable Content a go too...
http://www.questionablecontent.net/

He's even done a couple of cameos from DS - the sister of one of the QC girls had a fling with one of the DS girls.

I'll recommend Questionable Content on top of that list. It updates mostly 5 days a week.