Introducing RobotPony, my new satirical, profane, and somewhat geekish web comic.¹

Why a webcomic? Why not? I found that writing funny stuff on a mostly technical blog distracting, even if a lot of fun to write. So I’ll have my fun with the comic and be mostly-serious here at the ranch.

Oh, beware: the comic site is still in beta as I’m still finding my pixelated funny legs.² As always, comments and critters are handy.

1. In the vein of the Indexed and xkcd strips ↩
2. Funny on the screen is more difficult than my normal shtick ↩

Daily Tech report about the Wii Launch Lineup, including the 30 old-school titles that will be part of their download network. The old-school titles will range from USD$5 to $10.

Microsoft has a majority market share, bug #1 in the Ubuntu bug tracking database. Sounds more like a goal or a feature to me …

A large set of online XUL apps.

The full Ubuntu “Dapper drake” specification. It’s cool to see what’s coming up in Ubuntu, and this is a nifty way to present it.

Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran On the surface, there is nothing extraordinary about the news that the President of the United States would order the Pentagon to be prepared to launch military strikes on Iran in June 2005 . That Iran has been a target of the Bush administration’s ideologues is no secret: the President himself placed Iran in the ‘axis of evil’ back in 2002, and has said that the world would be a better place with the current Iranian government relegated to the trash bin of history.