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  1. Best place for dead tree comics online. by eschatfische · · Score: 5 · on Web-Based Comics
    It's impossible to beat the Mercury News' online comics personalization engine. Most of the dead tree comics out there, only the ones you want to see, same day as the papers, in color! Free registration required, as they say.

    I love web comics, but the problem I have with them is that I don't read them on a "daily basis" like the dead tree comics, so the ones with an ongoing storyline or character development lose a lot of their "flow." I like the "one day at a time" feel of something like Doonesbury or the kickass newcomer The Boondocks. When you read 'em all at once, it just doesn't feel right to me.

    Other great online strips: the ones at Salon, especially Tom the Dancing Bug and Story Minute. And how could I leave out the deranged genius which is Space Moose!

    The world hasn't been the same since Word.com got destroyed by their fish-oil selling masters. However, if you Google long enough, you'll find the old archive of Maakies still online.

    Eschatfische.

  2. Good editorial comic on SATs by gwyrdd+benyw · · Score: 1 · on Cal Schools May Nix SAT In Admissions Process

    Check out this Tom Toles comic about SATs.

  3. Kalvin by Yoshi+Have+Big+Tail · · Score: 2 · on Atomic Optics Uses Light To Focus Atom Beams

    Kalvin? Isn't a bit unfair on Hobbes to reduce Kalvin so much? Would you like such small friend?

    Seriously though, it's Kelvin, named after the scientist, and it's not degrees Kelvin, it's simply Kelvin, since Kelvin is an absolute scale.

    For those who don't know, 1/1000000th of a Kelvin is very very slightly above absolute zero, the temperature at which there is absolutely no molecular movememnt (because there's no heat energy). 0 K = absolute zero - 272 degrees Celsius.

    Kelvin is the same as the Celsius (1 K= 1degree C), but with absolute zero as 0 instead of 0 as the freezing pt of water at normal conditions.

  4. the calvin and hobbes approach by lisa · · Score: 1 · on Human clones priced at $50,000

    if we don't like the clones, we can always transmogrify them...