April 27th, 2009 | brainjuice
From Topless Robot:
You know how we all complain that so-and-so raped our childhoods? Well, this is the exact opposite. I used this line in my Twitter, but I stand by it — G.I. Joe: Resolute is like Warren Ellis made tender, passionate love to our childhoods, and he had an enormous dick.
Rrrrreally not sure how to feel about that one.
WARREN ELLIS
Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
Check the appropriate box. Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?
[ ] YES [ ] NOIf yes, please outline the fundamental beliefs. If applicable, attach a copy of the bylaws or minutes of meetings from the last year.
Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
John Robb - 08 Feb 10
A gifting economy is different from a barter or market economy in that valuable items are given away to those that need them, without any quid pro quo, exchange, or payment. Gifting economics (lots of great papers on this topic) were/are the economic heartbeat of hunter-gatherer tribal cultures, the social organization where we spent 99% of our time as homo sapiens sapiens. Barter was, in contrast, a mechanism for economic interactions between tribes.
This gifting economic system wasn't based on pure altruism. It did have an enforcement mechanism to ensure compliance with the system over the longer term. On the positive side, there was an intangible increase in the social status (using personal or societal metrics) of a tribal member that gifted an item. On the negative, a failure to offer hospitality or gifts to those in need was considered a mortal slight that could incite violence or expulsion from the tribe.
There were also a considerable number of drivers for gifting at the tribal level. Here are some:
Scalability
It's pretty clear that the societal drivers of tribal gifting economics and the mechanisms of enforcement didn't survive the transition to a global social system composed of billions of members. Simply, the connections between any two individuals (outside of immediate familial relationships) are too abstract for these drivers and enforcement mechanisms to be relevant. As a result, market based mechanisms for economic interaction have gained dominance.
However, the ongoing shift of the global market-based economy from a trade in rival goods (tangible items that invoke zero sum economics) to digital non-rival goods (items that can be copied at no expense or diminishment, endlessly) provides a window of opportunity. It may be possible to revive gifting economics for non-rival goods to amazing beneficial effect. Some ideas on how this could scale:
Jean Snow - 08 Feb 10
So what’s the latest on SNOW? I guess two new developments art that I added a dedicated Twitter feed, and also created a Facebook fan page. The Twitter feed is mostly just automated with new articles from the site — because some people actually prefer that over RSS feeds these days — but I do keep an eye on it, and will reply to questions and comments. The Facebook page is just another way of putting the site out there, and should be a good way of informing members of SNOW-related events as they happen.
Regular content updates have also continued over the past week, with a few new guest columns and my regular news items. Here’s a list of what you may have missed over the past few days.
BWAH HAHAHAHAHA!!! Did you wipe it off on his teddy bear, too? :)
It’s twoo! It’s twoooooo! :P
Topless Robot had a teddy bear? :)
lmfao! thats one messed up visual
Honestly Mr. Ellis, some day the police will have a lot of questions for you.
i’m still laughing at the fact that you chose Springfield as the town for Cobra.
I was waiting for random character from another cartoon to walk by.
class
BURNT FUR
That’s a keeper. Just brilliant…
How does it feel to be warrenellised, Mr Ellis? Now you know how we do…
…Should I say that the only thing I could think was “Warren Ellis/GIJoe slash.”? :C
I’m not sure I want such a thought to go gozilla bukkake.
“Dude… that wasn’t really a review…”
That has to go on the DVD box.
Actually, Springfield as the home base of Cobra goes way back before the Simpsons debuted. It was always one of my favorite ideas from the old Marvel comics series, that this international terror organization had an entire American town populated by its own agents.
OMG please do put it on the DVD box cover. Hahaha so awesome.
@Ian St. Germain – Springfield was always the town where Cobra were based. I found this a little confusing when I was a kid and started reading the comic (in the back of Transformers – awesome) just before The Simpsons began airing. As far as I know, Springfield is a very common town name in the US, hence it’s choice in both these examples.
Seconded!
I saw someone say that at the beginning of the webisodes, it seemed as if you were bent on killing off all of the characters who had a Magnum P.I. / Leatherman ’stache (Maj. Bludd, Torpedo). I supposed in the sequel, Wild Bill is next? ;-)
Torpedo? I mean, Bazooka.
actually Springfield has a long history of being the home town of Cobra. That is where Cobra Commander started out.
I feel the same way. That shit was awesome
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Wow.
I loved Resolute, but, wow.
Thanks for sharing that…image.
wow.
So I have been wondering this for 20 years. And seeing as how you are now in charge of GI Joe canon for the time being I am wondering if you can answer this question for me, Mr. Ellis. What is Cobra’s political platform ? Are they fascist ? They cant be communists cause Cobra Commander wants money. My friend believes Cobra Commander is trying to fight for equal rights for the snake people of cobra la. Yes this is an insanely geeky question but please what are your thoughts on Cobra’s political platform.
That’s pretty funny. If anyone is interested, there’s a fairly extensive (And glowing) review on my site here http://www.republibot.com/content/review-gi-joeresolute-2009
I have to say, Mr. Ellis, that I was very pleasantly surprised. If I were any happier, I’d be twins…
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist.
I had a fantastic time. I’ll be warming up the Sectaurs for when you want another go Uncle Ellis.
I was going to write a review of Resolute, but really that just summed it up perfectly.
-Jack