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I'm writing a text analysis of Swedish Wikipedia's article "Göteborgskravallerna", on the riots in Gothenburg during the EU summit of June 2001. I was supposed until recently to turn it in tomorrow, but now I've got until Sunday. And that's good, except I'll be working most of Saturday and Sunday so it doesn't really help me that much. We'll see how it goes  - I still have a lot to do. Anyway, I can't really see that I'll have time to sit down and write a long post on the trip to Istanbul this week . So instead, this. I sort of don't have time for this, but... well, I take the time and just try to do it quickly. I haven't been that effective thus far, especially not today, so why start now. In just a moment, though, I'll be text-analasyzing like... just you wait!

In the mean time, I'll just mention three nice web comics. For two of them, I am slightly acquainted with the authors. At least I've been on the same mailing list as them, and at least with one of them I've occasionally had one-on-one online exchanges of various kinds. But their comics are still good, honestly! The third comic has some fame, I believe, so if you're into the webcomic-thing there's some chance you've heard of it, maybe even a quite significant chance. Still, I suspect only a minority, if any, of the few readers I actually have are that into webcomics. And that minority can't mind a little reminder of a fun comic they may have ignored for a while, can they?

http://www.stupidityinmagic.com/ "Stupidity in Magic" by Willow E. Taylor. "Welcome to The Institute for Magical Focus. The people here are much like anyone else you've ever met-with one big exception. Everyone here accepts that magic exists. The only question is how it works. Unfortunately, it frequently works much better than is safe for some people. Because people are stupid- why should magic change that?" My favourite window into the world of paganism and related subjects. See also http://willowanderer.livejournal.com .

http://www.howcomics.com/ "Hell on Wheels" by Rob McCarthy. Art by Shaenon K. Garrity and others. On comics. And wheelchairs. And stuff. Only 67 strips, which is sad but also means you can read the whole thing pretty quickly and then have your precious time to yourself... except for that part which is spent praying there'll be more soon, and reading Rob's excellent blog on comics (mostly superheroes), which can also be found on the site.

http://www.holybibble.net/ "Holy Bibble" by Lucas and Cannan. Hear the words (or, well, see the comics... and words) of the Prophets. The bible, but like it really was.