Semifat Sediment » comics http://sediment.semifat.net Relax, it's just Josh Lee's weblog. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:01:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Signs of the Times: Being and Webcomics. http://sediment.semifat.net/2009/11/signs-of-the-times-being-and-webcomics/ http://sediment.semifat.net/2009/11/signs-of-the-times-being-and-webcomics/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:47:22 +0000 joshlee http://sediment.semifat.net/?p=1305 How do you make major philosophical movements of the last century relevant to the kids of today? Do you sit them down with a bunch of Nietzche and Kierkegaard? Do you teach them German and debate Heidegger’s nuanced use of the word Dasein?

Perhaps you just hit them with a webcomic:

[xkcd on lego]
xkcd on Lego (but not really).

And so another generation learns the first and most important thing that everyone learns about existentialism: that it’s a big, fat downer. So how do we answer the question that every despairing student asks when finding themselves mired in capital-A Angst: “What do I make of myself now?”

[bunny on lego]
Bunny on Lego (but not really).

Whatever you want, really.

]]> http://sediment.semifat.net/2009/11/signs-of-the-times-being-and-webcomics/feed/ 0 Signs of an Internet Culture, #294. http://sediment.semifat.net/2005/08/signs-of-an-internet-culture-294/ http://sediment.semifat.net/2005/08/signs-of-an-internet-culture-294/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:34:25 +0000 joshlee http://semifat.net/wordpress/2005/08/signs-of-an-internet-culture-294/ While others debate on whether we’re building the First, Second, or Eighth version of the Internet, I enjoy stumbling onto signs that the Web is more than just a playground for the kinds of people who like to tinker with document object models and CMC paradigms. Case in point: those postcards that sit in little stacks at the coffee shop, next to your favorite (or least favorite) alt-weekly newspaper. They used to advertise raves, but those are so 90s; most of the time, they’re promoting a club or a bar or a gallery showing.

This morning, though, as I staggered in and out of Dunn Bros, I saw one that advertised a web comic, Paul Taylor’s Wapsi Square. I haven’t actually had time to read much of it yet, so I haven’t been able to form an opinion, but now I’m intrigued by the idea of dead-tree advertisements for personal websites. Maybe I should make up some postcards for Semifat Sediment and leave them lying around.

]]> http://sediment.semifat.net/2005/08/signs-of-an-internet-culture-294/feed/ 1 “My dream leads to scurvy.” http://sediment.semifat.net/2004/09/my-dream-leads-to-scurvy/ http://sediment.semifat.net/2004/09/my-dream-leads-to-scurvy/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:26:06 +0000 joshlee http://semifat.net/wordpress/2004/09/my-dream-leads-to-scurvy/ Winner of the “Best Webcomic That’s Been Around For Years And I Can’t Believe I Never Heard About It Until Now” award: Cat and Girl. Because any comic that freely admits to swiping from Watterson, but freely name-drops Jenny Holzer, Joseph Beuys, and Theodor Adorno gets a big thumbs up from me.

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