Othar Tryggvassen vrs the Wikifiddlers!

Explosives are booby trapped. Now that's just excessive.

Othar Tryggvassen is a spark (or mad genius) from the Girl Genius comics. He's an occasional visitor to the comic, but is a hero in his own mind. Battling against the tyrants of Europe.

You can see what he's up to when off panel, as Othar has a twitter. Every day he updates us on his latest adventures. It's quite a fun way to read a story.

Plus, he's battling the sort of person who's booby trap the explosives, and deploy other mokey based defence mechanisms.

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iBon ran across this rather surreal corner of Wikipedia the other day:

The comprehensive list of usernames editors have expressed concern over.

It's a source of much puerile humour :)

Mykidsareplayinginthetoilet
Killyoureditor
Jimbo3000
Lolvandalisms
Yer Momma
Butt face999

Not on netiquette

I've been "breaking into fandom" in super slow motion for about three years now. Mostly due to other time constraints. FIJAGDH. But partially due to learning the language etc.

One of the books I remember reading from my local library as a teenager was Surfing on the Internet : a nethead's adventure on-line. Published in 1995 it was at little out of date even then. One of the random bits of advice between the chapters on MUDs and cybersex, was the advice to lurk for a while before posting to newsgroups, lest you attack a flame war.
(That and "You can surf the net, work, socialise, and sleep. Pick three. Caffeine can substitute for sleep.")

However fanzine's (and student radio shows thinking on it) have a different attitude[1], encouraging contributions and Letters of Comment.

So, having received my first fanzine in the post (rather than by hand), I'm at a bit of a loss as to the un-written rules. I've not had time this month to scrape my thoughts together coherently enough to say what I want to in a letter. So I've just handed them a doodle. Now: can I post it on here? Should I wait until after the next issue to see what they've done with it? Should I have signed it? If so with my initials, as "normally" do with the few worthwhile (admittedly very few) doodles I do, or sign it as cdave, seeing as how most fans who know me, don't know my surname?

And should I post them the LoC when done? I know I value physical letters far more than emails, but then I don't have to re-type them.

I'm sure these things aren't important, but I do think about them.

[1] Now at least. Hearing some of the discussions about old fanzine's and the "kill the f*cker" (metaphorically) game against the noobs is quite odd against today's fandom.