No Ordinary Rabbit

by kartooner on September 21, 2003

Oolong is no ordi­nary rab­bit. “Oolong is so calm and patient — he never gets angry when I take pic­tures of him. When I put var­i­ous objects on his head, he stays still for a minute. This is just a result of an intimate (…)

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A Tale of Two Uncles

by kartooner on September 20, 2003

Like many writ­ers and their work, Tim McCan­lies admits a great deal of the char­ac­ters who appear in Sec­ond­hand Lions emerged from his own past.

Smart Sketches

by kartooner on September 19, 2003

“Intel­li­gent soft­ware that brings rough sketches to life in a vir­tual world is promis­ing to rev­o­lu­tionise the way chil­dren learn and to help engi­neers visu­alise their designs. In design­ing the soft­ware, devel­op­ers at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy have had to (…)

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Shiver Me Timbers

by kartooner on September 19, 2003

Ahoy! Shiver me tim­bers, matey. Today be Talk like a Pirate Day so gather ye mateys and mate(ettes) and scrub the deck you swab­bie. Avast — Jour­ney to your local Star­bucks and pil­lage and plun­der the place. Sab­b­o­tage the cap­puc­cino machine, (…)

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