This week, President Bush presented nine recipients with the National Medal of the Arts, managed by the National Endowment of the Arts. Among the recipients was legendary comic book creator and geek icon Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men and the Fantastic Four — to name a few.
I think this is the beginning [...]
Posts under ‘Politics’
Picture of the Week: Stan ‘The Man’ at The White House
Today is OneWebDay: Celebrate the Oneness
We’ve all heard of Earth Day, but did you know that today is the third annual OneWebDay?
Susan Crawford, founder of OneWebDay, describes it as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem — an effort to create “a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet” from evil access providers and to promote online [...]
Cylons Running for President?
Any other sci-fi geeks out there who watched Governor Palin give her speech last night at the Republican National Convention and couldn’t help but think of a certain Secretray of Treasury-turned-President from Caprica (minus nuance, reason, and intellect, of course)? Hey, give McCain an eye patch and you got a striking resemblance to everyone’s favorite grouchy-old Colonel.
Well, apparently, [...]
