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"I won the lottery. Not the jackpot, "just" a thousand bucks, and being a typical middle-class middle-manager a thousand dollars is nice, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't going to change my life. So I decided to do something special with the money. I decided I wanted to spend it to bring something that would last; I would spend it to try and bring Jack Chick's epic 1984 graphic novel / tract to film.

I wrote Chick Publications explaining this to them and I'm super-excited to announce that I have obtained the video rights to make a movie based on Dark Dungeons. "

As he explains in the FAQ and in the comments: Chick has received and will receive no money for this. He offered to pay for the movie rights, but Chick Publications gave them for free when he explained that he wished to truly, sincerely film the movie with the original message intact. So you're not supporting Chick by supporting this Kickstarter.

I am reminded: I am very good at my job.

That is all.

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France: Dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat.

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Philly couple murder their second child while on probation for murdering first one.

Their OTHER seven children have been taken away, finally.

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Washington Post: "How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of the Texas factory, which did far more damage than the Boston bombers?"

Quoth the Charleston Gazette, "Terrorists want media attention, so we give it to them. Unsafe industries don't want media attention - so we give that to them."

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"Waving your arms, hoping for pizza: Microsoft’s Kinect strategy gets worse and worse"

Despite the inherent problems of ordering pizza via a Kinect gesture interface, I feel this article misses the main point: Talking to people sucks. Customer service sucks. NOBODY is happy working that job and NOBODY wants to talk to them. And so, online ordering? WAY better than finding a legacy phone and making unhappy legacy phone calls to unhappy legacy people who are required to transcribe your order accurately instead of just getting what you want, for certain, on the record, directly to the right people.

The fewer people I have to talk to to order something when I want to order a specific thing? The better. Even better when my order gets to the fulfillment people in writing.

And, okay, sure, maybe Kinect sucks, and Pizza Hut pizza sucks. GRANTED. The point is, ordering food by NOT TALKING TO PEOPLE is always better and makes me put up with a lot.