tigertoy

So a little while ago the Hugo ballot came out, and I was more than a bit surprised to see a furry comic nominated for Best Graphic Story.  I hadn't actually read Digger, though I'd seen Ursula Vernon at DucKon last year.  I decided to check it out.  The first few strips were a little uneven -- she didn't really start with a plan for a long, detailed story -- but it quickly started to come together and become very engaging.

I haven't read any of the other nominees, so I can't say that it's the best, but I think it's definitely Hugo worthy and I would love to see it win.  And while it would be great if people would track down and buy the paper book, the whole strip is on the web.  If you're going to be voting this year, be sure to give it a read.  I laughed, I cried, and while on the one hand it's nice to see a writer give a story a good, solid ending, on the other hand, I'm sad that it is done.

Today's XKCD is an amusing poke at the quirks of us humans.  But one of the best things about XKCD is the mouse overs -- they're often better than the comic itself.  Today's is that way with a twist -- the alt text isn't funny, it's true and I wholeheartedly agree.

"I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with--and labeled similarly to--their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just lying--it’s like an example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."

In another journal, someone linked this comic in as a comment, and it is so profoundly true that I'm going to repost it here where I'll see it again.  I'm not going to spend today trying to write a post about my feelings.

( full page comic inside )