What Are The 115 Best Comics Of All Time?

The Hooded Utilitarian recently asked readers to vote on the top comics (books, strips, and gags) of all time. They ran the list of the top 115 vote getters. Here are the top 10:

What are the 115 best comics of all time?

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China Likely Overtook U.s. As Top Pc Market For First Time

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China probably overtook the U.S. as the largest personal-computer market last quarter, after three decades of American dominance in an industry pioneered by Apple Inc. and International Business Machines Corp.

China Likely Overtook U.S. as Top PC Market for First Time

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Greatest Hugo Acceptance Speech Of All Time?

Behold! The greatest moment in modern Hugo Award history, as Chris Garcia has a complete (and utterly charming) meltdown when he realizes that he's won a Hugo for Best Fanzine for Drink Tank. I was so close as to be in the splash-zone, and it was a wonder and a delight to behold (yes, I know there's an ad -- it's worth it).

Greatest Hugo acceptance speech of all time?

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Time

Time We use our concept of time to place events in sequence one after the other, to compare how long an event lasts, and to tell when an event occurs. Yet despite 2,500 years of investigating time,  many issues about it are unresolved. Here is a short list in no particular order of the most [...]

Time

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Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star

Netflix, now the envy of the media world, had a lucrative contract with Starz that gave it cheap content. That deal is expiring, and rivals are gloating.

Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star

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Europe Suggests Jail Time for Insider Trading

European officials noted that the severity of penalties and fines for market abuses varied widely across the bloc.

Europe Suggests Jail Time for Insider Trading

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X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

A new hypothetical particle could solve two cosmic mysteries at once: what dark matter is made of, and why there’s enough matter for us to exist at all.

X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/x-particle/

Reading File: Time, Advertising and the Railroads

Excerpts from articles about the problem of setting one’s watch in Antarctica, the death of mass marketing and the rise of the railroads.

Reading File: Time, Advertising and the Railroads

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Calling Time on Assange

Dec. 12's issue of Time casts Wikileaks in a positive light, echoing a classic image of American censorship and pointing out that harm is not yet evident in the candor forced upon an unwilling government: image how sad it would be for Fareed Zakaria's lovely smile to be covered thus! America's mainstream media often seems resentful of Wikileaks' beating it, bullying it and spoon-feeding it, but has perhaps rediscovered something it loathes far more: Joementum. Here's the cover story, by Massimo Calabresi. [via @kaepora]

Calling Time on Assange

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Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes

We've been talking about information overload for a long time -- the Gutenberg era was characterized by a panic over all the damned books all over the place, but even Ecclesiastes is worried about infoglut:

Complaints about information overload, usually couched in terms of the overabundance of books, have a long history -- reaching back to Ecclesiastes 12:12 ("of making books there is no end," probably from the 4th or 3d century BC). The ancient moralist Seneca complained that "the abundance of books is distraction" in the 1st century AD, and there have been other info-booms from time to time -- the building of the Library of Alexandria in the 3d century BC, or the development of newspapers starting in the 18th century.

But what happened in the Renaissance was, like digital technology in our own time, transformative. It took overload to an entirely new order of magnitude. Up to this point, every existing book had been copied by hand -- a task that could easily take one copyist a year or more. Books were expensive commodities, most often produced on commission and paid for in advance. The great medieval libraries accumulated manuscripts by the hundreds, but few people ever had access to that many books.

The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen major urban centers, with many other short-lived presses in operation. Contemporaries at first raved about the great speed with which books could be printed, and also about the drop in price -- by 80 percent on one contemporary's estimate in 1468.

Information overload, the early years (via Making Light)

Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes

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Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time [News]

Dr. Ben Goertzel's talk at Google, discussing his own work on the Novamente Cognition Engine, an AGI project based on combining a number of knowledge representations and reasoning and learning techniques into an integrative architecture motivated by complex systems theory, and initially oriented at the control of virtual agents in 3D simulation worlds such as Second Life.

Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time [News]

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