10th
April
2006
The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch
“Each and every day a comic strip abuses the use of the silent second-to-last panel.”
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“Each and every day a comic strip abuses the use of the silent second-to-last panel.”
“As traffic to chicagocrime.org has steadily increased, I’ve been looking for ways to tweak the site’s performance. The site runs on a rented dedicated server with Apache/mod_python, PostgreSQL and Django… One thing that’s always bugged me is that chicagocrime.org’s Apache instance serves both the dynamic, Django-powered pages and static media files such as the CSS and images. It’s inefficient for a single Apache instance to act as both an application server (mod_python) and a media server… The solution hit me the other day — I can just use Amazon’s new Amazon S3 data-storage service to host chicagocrime.org’s media files, so my own Apache server can focus on serving dynamic pages.”
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“Last month the Society for News Design announced the 1,136 winners of their 27th Annual Creative Competition. This is not the first time the number of winners exceeded 10³, which begs the question: What other organization gives its members more than a thousand awards a year? The Pulitzer Prize Board gives 21 awards. Does SND believe that the appearance of words is 50 times more noteworthy than the meaning of words? I hope not. The Nobel Foundation grants six awards for things that are clearly more important than ‘overall redesign of a regularly appearing newspaper section.’ ‘Nuff said.”
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