Wes Phillips

Because it's so freaking cool.

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I try not to link to stuff I see on Boing-Boing, since that site gets about a zillion times the traffic I do, but Peter Bagge's four-page comics rumination on immigration on is just too good to ignore.

We all have our obsessions, I suppose. This one seems pretty benign.

You've probably never seen your album covers do this.

It's a battle between the impersonal commercial hegemony and a ragtag group of rebels. Scrappy independents vs an army of clones clad in white plastic armor . . . .

I may have found the solution to Jeff Wong's and my return-leg headwind problem. Of course,the http://www.personalpropulsion.com/"> Pacific Wind ThrustPac is noisy and would make us look (more) like dorks, but a personal jet pack that would give us speeds of 25–35mph and it a range of 150mpg might be worth it. Pacific Wind’s website is pretty crappy, but the ThrustPac seems to utilize a 35cc engine.

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You can't handle the truth! Well, maybe the 3.2% variety.