Strips

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: bone, jeff smith, ThornWhile Bone creator Jeff Smith attended the Ohio State University, he created a comic strip "Thorn" for the student newspaper, The Lantern.While Bone creator Jeff Smith attended the Ohio State University, he created a comic strip called "Thorn" for the student newspaper, The Lantern, which included some of the characters who later featured in Bone. There was a partial collection, with a thousand print run, but nothing since Bone became a big thing. And copies have sold at…

AWS announced the general availability of a new version of its Aurora database this week called Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized. The big news from this version is that it gets rid of all I/O charges for database use, a move that should reduce overall database costs for customers with large workloads, and bring more predictability to their cloud database bills. “With the new Aurora configuration, customers only pay for their database instances and storage consumption with no charges for I/O…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Florida governor Ron DeSantis has retaliated against Disney for speaking out against the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill by revoking the Disney Company’s control over the Reedy Creek District, the area where Disney Parks has long encompassed its own city.The goal to implement bureaucratic interference was passed, as reported by Deadline, without the state taking on the 1 billion in municipal debt that comes along with it. The move has dissolved the company’s 55-year hold on the district,with…

OnePlus will debut a new concept device at next week’s MWC Barcelona. We’ve now received our first sneak peek at the OnePlus 11 Concept which shows out the phone’s back is equipped with light-up strips and a larger camera island. The blue strips cover the entire back of the phone and circle the camera island too. OnePlus 11 Concept teasers OnePlus issued an official note for its upcoming concept phone, describing the new images as “blood vessels” that run throughout the entire back of the phone.…

TPU-based sensor modules for air traffic: As stretchable covers on the wings, they collect data during operation. Credit: Fraunhofer IZM Civil aviation is committed to making progress on the road towards a climate-neutral future. To make current and future aircrafts more energy-efficient and use less jet fuel, the industry needs reliable data about the durability of materials and aerodynamics in actual flight. Researchers…

Pakistan’s central bank on Friday revoked the in-principle and pilot operations approval of Tag to operate as an electronic money institution in a move that poses existential threat to the firm. State Bank of Pakistan said in an order that it is revoking Tag’s approval to operate as an electronic money institution, the permission that is required for entities to offer innovative, user-friendly and cost effective low-value digital payments instruments such as wallets, cards and contactless…

Gwyneth Paltrow turned 50 and the actress celebrated the landmark in a different way. Paltrow posed nude for a glamorous shoot in celebration of her 50th birthday putting a whole new spin on what it means to wear your birthday dress. The Goop founder has once again proven that age is just a number by modelling nothing but gold paint, a modern homage to the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger. Both Paltrow and her lifestyle brand shared stunning images on social media on her birthday in honour of her embarking on the next…

AmazonAs someone whose home has been integrated with smart lights, they are a total game changer, offering ways to adjust your lighting to spooky Halloween hues, use voice commands to adjust brightness, and more. For Apple HomeKit users, the Eve Light Strip – a savings of $38, offering 1800 lumens of brightness at the touch of your iPhone or iPad. You can easily control the lighting, including color selection, switching, brightening, and dimming via the app or with a Siri voice command. It also supports the HomeKit…

via Miramax Combining the obsessive with the erotic can often yield unbridled cinematic sleaze, but 2000’s Malèna largely opted against leaning into its salacious elements in order to tell a more dramatic story, albeit one that features an almost alarming amount of both figurative and literal masturbatory content. Despite failing to resonate with critics, the film’s 54 percent Rotten Tomatoes score is handily dwarfed by its 84 percent user rating from upwards of 25,000 votes, while Malèna also ended up landing…

| In the 1950s and 1960s, dozens of Jewish papers around the globe ran Dayenu, a single-panel gag comic series created by one Henry Leonard. That was just a poorly-protected nom de plume for the team of Rabbi Harry Rabin, who wrote the cartoons, and advertising and art director Leonard Pritikin, who drew them. These cartoons were popular enough to have a series of book collections published by New York's Crown Publishers, but those volumes have been out of print for about half a century. Now, by arrangement with Leonard…