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Quick follow-up. Ars Technica has a great summary of the events along with some new details.

The Penny Arcade fans have banned together and worked up a detailed account of Jack’s activities. One of the forum members has reported the entire incident to the FBI, including the detailed report (forum thread here [NSFW language]). The letter has also been sent to the Florida Bar Association who has already once reprimand Thompson in 1998.

Disbarment might be a pipe dream, but it’s one more step on Jack’s way to the bottom. By the way, search for John B. Thompson on Google for some hilarious reading.

Arbor Update, a local Ann Arbor blog, recently posted about the riots in Toledo (CNN story). Throughout the day, I’ve been following the hilarious thread as trolls are driven to the post, likely from a search or some post in the neo-Nazi forum somewhere. After some people called for the racist crap be deleted, one of the mods at Arbor Update flipped the comments and proposed donating $1 for each racist comment made in the thread. Many others have joined in, and the flames continue.

Of course, being Ann Arbor, someone had to ruin a highly entertaining troll-bashing by starting the “conservative are Nazis” BS; nice to see everyone’s true colors are starting to show through.

But, it’s a good cause, in a macabre sort of way. Check it out, make a donation. Help fight racist, anti-Semitic, idiots.

I tried to post the following message on your “forums” in response to the hit piece tonight on the governor, but you have a character limit. My commend got deleted as well; must be a technical problem. So, if someone would get get lucky enough to surf over here, here’s my response to Steve Wilson’s “report” Mackinac Mansion Part I.

Note to the management: you lost a viewer tonight.

What’s next? “See Steve’s next report where he continues to insinuate that the First Gentleman is living a swingin’ bachelors lifestyle, tomorrow at 7!

Whats the matter Steve, Granholm put you in your place? The juices running a little slower lately? Needed a little yellow journalism fix to get your warmed up for the election cycle?

With an election as important as this mayors race, a budget crisis that could bankrupt the City of Detroit, and real problems everywhere in between, Channel 7 could better serve the community with real stories, not this kind of sensationalist tripe.

Thanks,

A Former Viewer

I must build this! A homemade Peltier Beer (erm… Beverage) cooler.

Ok, not really (I can’t solder to safe my life), but this is pretty cool.

Link [via Engadget]

Sweet, pictures and everything.

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Vitaly Friedman has compiled a list of 20 License-Free Fonts (that’s free). Fonts are one of those beautiful things that no one pays attention to, at least until you get that invitation made in Kidnap or something. Pretty good list; I especially like Pigiarniq and JustOldFashion.

Link [via mezzoblue]

I’m going to stop apologizing for it and just give into the farce that has become Jack Thompson. (Note to certain readers, it must be something about the last name.)

Jack has now faxed a letter to the Seattle PD (where PA is located) asking that the authors of PA, Gabe and Tycho, be arrested. Of course, he got their website wrong, but that doesn’t detract from the fun language and defamation suit he brought on himself. He accuses PA of extortion and criminal harassment, both of which I’m pretty sure require evidence in order to prosecute.

Jack, you have made yourself a public figure and, as such, are open to a whole level of mockery and satire the likes of which you obviously are unable to deal with. “I Hate Jack Thompson” T-shirts are not harassment, they’re hella-funny. I highly recommend you crawl back under a rock and bother us no more. Cops are smarter than you pathetic, emotional pleas and insinuations. They’re not dumb enough to arrest people who donate money to sick kids in the name of the person falsely accusing them of crimes.

gamepolitics: BREAKING NEWS: Will Seattle’s Finest Be Raiding Penny Arcade?

Orson Scott Card’s webzine, Intergalatic Medicine Show, is up. Each issue costs $2.50 and Card has on the front page that he’ll publish a new story in Ender’s world every month (what’s that little tickle in the back of my mind?).

Ender’s Game is one of the best sf stories around and Card is quite a character.

[via Sci-Fi Storm]

IGMS

I don’t know what gets this guy under my skin and, yes, I’m playing right into his sick need for attention, but I got drop one last post about this twit.

Not only does he whelch on charities, but others have to make up for him. The guys at Penny Arcade have donated $10,000 to The Entertainment Software Association Foundation in Jack’s name.

Jack, as he will remind you, is a lawyer and, as such, likes to make wild, legal-sounding threats. See the Penny Arcade link above as well as this page over at VG Cats.

And the worst part, people like my folks don’t hear this side of the story. Will someone from a responsbile news orginization (not C|Net) pick this up and wipe Jack Thompson off the map? Please? There are people doing far worse damage to society, and we really need to get back to them.

Following up on this post, Jack Thompson, lawyer, psychic, and now, apparently, back-peddling fool has rescinded his offer of $10,000 to charity if someone built his proposed violent video game. Why? Because someone did it. Jack now claims, in totally lawyerly fashion, that his original offer was satire. Unfortunately, we know that’s not true as Jack can’t actually identify satire, based on his reaction to the produced mod of GTA:SA where you can play as Jack Thompson.

So, either one of two things occurred here. Either Thompson’s original piece was satire and he never intended to donate money to charity or he’s lying now to get out of donating the money to charity. We await his explanation soon.