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[theweaselking]

Did your local "news-paper" (one of those weird flappy things that old people use instead of the internet, FYI) pull this week's Doonesbury because it made fun of people who make stupid laws for bad reasons?

Did you want to read it anyway, but not otherwise know how to find it online?

If that is you,
Enjoy, part 1
and
Enjoy, part 2

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Because http://doonesbury.com/ is difficult to remember.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

(It's more "if you don't normally read Doonesbury, you might want to this week, since a whole lot of bad people are very upset about it.)

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

It's extra clicks to hunt down the censored ones. On the other hand, concentrating the SAMIZDAT into an easily-distributed form allows us to maximize the Streisand effect.

My local paper is one of the retarded ones, I'll be passing these links around.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yes, because going to the actual online source of the strips is never the right answer when you're inconvenienced by extra clicks.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Glad we could agree.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Oh well, if it implies that first trimester fetuses have differentiated limbs, internal organs and genitalia it SHOULD have been pulled.

It's good to see newspapers taking a stand for scientific accuracy for once.

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

Actually, it seemed to have done the opposite--the doc seems to be pointing at random blobby things and making guesses.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The comics also get posted to doonesburyc.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Which is just as well, as the official Doonesbury site has an RSS feed... which is an RSS feed of all Slate articles ever, not including Doonesbury comics.

I've been slowly messing about with a side-project designed to scrape webcomics and make them palatable for an iPad, as my current desktop habit of opening a bunch of webcomic URLs in tabs won't survive the transition: 1) the iPad only supports 8 tabs at once, and in any case 2) title text jokes don't work on a platform which doesn't have a mouse pointer. The sanest webcomics have a decent RSS feed, and/or guessable URL formats. Doonesbury's RSS feed, by contrast, is a marvel of headdeskery.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Yahoo Pipes is pretty good at taking RSS input and rejiggering it for less asshattery. It can also take something like that Slate feed you mentioned and strip out everything but what you want, like the Doonesbury comics.

[skington.livejournal.com]

No, it's worse than that: the RSS feed linked from Doonesbury doesn't include the actual Doonesbury strips. At all.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

http://huffpostcomedy.tumblr.com/post/19296841745

[faeriemuriel.livejournal.com]

And so it becomes a bigger deal than just leaving it alone would've been...

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

[faeriemuriel.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a pretty recent name, I remember when all that drama went down. = P Yay, I'm living during history!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Another cartoonist does something mighty nice, if somewhat sneaky.

[plantyhamchuk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.