Alcides Fonseca

One of the comics I read daily, this time mocking with USA‘s weird paid health care. If you are an American, please come and visit Portugal, use our free health care, and have this in mind in the coming elections.

The first one is not a tech one, but still geeky. Randall Munroe is the author of xkcd, a fantastic comic about romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

The second one is indeed technical. Håkon Lie and Michael Day present PrinceXML and CSS design for printing. A really cool presentation to learn a bit how to style you webpages to generate an handsome print layout or PDF file.

Yes, that’s true! I kicked Scott Adams himself in his nuts! Repeatedly! Read more for (disgusting) details.

For those of you who live in some other dimension, Scott is the author of the famous Dilbert Comic (which btw I subscribe). He is now selling his latest book: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! that is not, as you may think, yet another compilation of Dilbert’s strips, but rather a collection of his best posts in his blog where he makes funny comments on what happens in the world of business (among some other random stuff).

To promote his new book, apart from the traditional book-signing, Scott decided to do a Q&A at Second Life. Last night as I was awake at the time and had SL installed, why not? I teleported myself and I found right in from of me Scott’s avatar (that he made from pictures of himself). The session was quite nice with some interesting questions (like Which is more dangerous: dilbert with a machine gun, dogbert with a garrote, or catbert with a “request denied” rubber stamp?) and trivia about the comic and animated series. And guess what? A movie is coming up!!!

If you are interested, you can read the transcript.

In the end there was a session where you could go up on stage and kick Scott around. I tried some stuff like punching, slapping, but what I found most interesting was kicking him in his FamilyJewels, so I did it over 5 times in a row! Thanks Mr Adams for that pleasure!

I liked the session pretty much (disregarding the fact that I was almost sleeping in from of the pc)! Not that I prefer this kind of presentations more than I like RL‘s but if it’s impossible to be there, SL is good enough. And it can provide some amusement IRC couldn’t do!

I am part of that generation that doesn’t read newspapers, we read RSS. I have currently 109 feeds subscribed (some of them aggregators) and just like a newspaper, I have the comic section. Here is the list, if you are looking for some:

Portuguese:

Hipertonia – Well, it’s not really a comic strip, but I believe it is the perfect section for it.
A Dupla Personalidade – Two wonderful sticks living inside some strip.

English:

AppleGeeks lite – Stories of Hawk, a mac and boobies addicted.
Blaugh – The (Un)Official Comic of the Blogosphere! (name says it all)
Ctrl+Alt+Del – Meet Ethan, the greatest gamer of them all. PS: He has a x-box robot :O
Dilbert – Who doesn’t know this humble citizen of cubicland?
Dueling Analogs – One more gaming comic. Includes sex fetishes with Super Mario and a dwarf.
Little Gamers – The comic with the coolest drawing. Specially the iMac :P
OK/Cancel – Comic about interface usability and designing. Too bad they have pause it.
Penny Arcade! – Yet another gaming comic.
PHD Comics – This one is about the insightful journey of becoming a PHD.
The Joy Of Tech – I believe this one also has an expressive name :)
Questionable Content – I do love soaps. I confess.
Wulff and Morgenthaler – Insane one-panel daily comic.
xkcd – I believe this one should be nominee for the Science Nobel. REALLY! and It’s useful when studying maths, physics and computing!
Zits – The typical teenager you probably know already.

Hope you like some :)