Everything that's new at www.zompist.com.
2008 The rants page, after years of denying that it's a blog, now is a blog. I've moved it to a blogging site since the hassle of posting, though small, is just large enough to prevent me from posting most of the time.
2007 31 Dec. New rant: His Dark Materials.
11 Nov. Updated that last answer with a reader's comments. Also more fully Unicoded the Proto-Eastern page.
31 Oct. An Ask Zomp question and answer.
14 Oct. Unicodified the Caďinor grammar.
13 Oct. How did it get to be October? New rant.
13 Aug. No less than four Ask Zomp answers.
4 Aug. New rant.
16 Jul. Culture test corrections: the Dutch have same-sex marriage now; the Greeks don't get more time off than other Europeans; and Americans don't make many Polish jokes any more.
12 Jul. New rant.
8 Jul. New rant.
23 Jun. Another Ask Zomp answer.
17 Jun. Another Ask Zomp answer.
3 Jun. Two, count 'em, two Ask Zomp answers
28 May. Unicode for the Syldavian pages.
20 May. New rant: More on authoritarians.
3 May. New rant: Conservativism conquered from within. And a new Ask Zomp answer
20 Mar. New rant: Bond overdose.
11 Mar. New rant: The Hot Gates.
1 Mar. Another Ask Zomp answer.
27 Feb. Bob reviews Digger and Slow Wave.
19 Feb. New rant: Touting my brother. Also, Raphael Landeck has translated my Jane Jacobs page into German.
4 Feb. New rant: What kind of ape are we? Also, Matt Adams provides icons drawn from the Children's Railway from Hell.
15 Jan. Another Ask Zomp answer.
7 Jan. New rant: More mistakes in Iraq.
2006 30 Dec. New rant: The children's railway FROM HELL.
12 Dec. Three new Ask Zomp answers.
29 Nov. More ranting.
25 Nov. Everyone should embarrass themselves with a plan for Iraq. Here's mine.
23 Nov. Put up a new Fuschia comic, after just five years, and revamped Fuschia's home page, including glimpses of her creation.
16 Nov. I've been on vacation, so some stuff is pending. To start with, here's a new rant. And here's three new Ask Zomp answers.
5 Nov. Ask Zompist answers another question.
30 Oct. Bob reviews Making Comics and 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Another answer in Ask Zompist.
Note: I had these updates ready on Sunday, but our phone line (and thus DSL) was dead until tonight. Couldn't get at my mail, either.
22 Oct. Ask Zompist answers three more questions.
18 Oct. Maybe the last update on Oblivion, plus a new rant
14 Oct. New feature: Ask Zompist answers its first batch of questions.
10 Oct. New rant to get some queries for a new feature, Ask Zompist!
3 Oct. It's well past time for a new Swatoon! (#31)
1 Oct. New rant.
17 Sep. New rant.
15 Sep. New rant.
11 Sep. More on Oblivion.
26 Aug. Decided it was time to release the Almeopedia.
24 Aug. New rant.
22 Aug. More thoughts on Oblivion.
14 Aug. Bob reviews Gemma Bovery and Fun Home. Also, all the Bobs were converted to the new format and prev/next buttons were added so you can read them in sequence.
12 Aug. New rant.
10 Aug. New rant.
5 Aug. Unicodified the Ismaîn grammar.
30 Jul. New rant. Also corrected some typos in English spelling page.
25 Jul. More thoughts on Oblivion.
16 Jul. Added my Oblivion Journal.
11 Jun. Added a new story, The rogues, to Virtual Verduria.
10 Jun. New rant.
4 Jun. New rant.
20 May. New rant.
10 May. Bob reviews Atomic City Tales and Top Ten. Also added updates to the Sam & Max and Boondocks reviews.
30 Apr. How to do better at Civ4 than you probably were. And a new rant.
18 Apr. New rant. Linked to cultures tests from Ill Bethisad, a collaborative alternative history.
7 Apr. New rant.
3 Apr. Survey results are up.
27 Mar. Two new Swatoons (#29, #30).
21 Mar. The Skourene Historical Atlas is complete, with three final maps (1705, 1726, 1810).
Also, please to be taking this zompist.com reader survey!
13 Mar. Two more Skourene maps 1632, 1665). Second-to-last update on the Skourene Historical Atlas!
9 Mar. W. Shedd and K. Andreyeva have written a Russian culture test on their blog. There's a new rant.
3 Mar. Justin M. updated the English culture test.
26 Feb. Two more Skourene maps 1510, 1593).
18 Feb. Two more Skourene maps (1370, 1440); also substantially revised the commentary for 1260.
12 Feb. Two more Skourene maps (1150, 1260).
9 Feb. New rant. Added this Salon review to the L&R links page.
29 Jan. Two more maps (1005, 1070).
23 Jan. Two more maps (885, 950).
14 Jan. New rant.
10 Jan. Two more maps (785, 827).
3 Jan. Two more maps (635, 738). Moved 2004 to the old changes log.
3 Jan. Happy new rant to all!
2005 31 Dec. Redrew the picture on the Visitor's Guide to Verduria. Updated the link to Robert Delaney's the by-subject republishing of the culture tests.
26 Dec. Created a new header and used it on a few pages.
24 Dec. Two more maps (484, 558).
23 Dec. New Swatoon (#28). By the way, Tieboy here has his own extremely droll Half-Life 2 oriented cartoonishness; and as mentioned in the Swatoon, Agent Orange has a four-page cartoon in Fortune this month.
18 Dec. Metaverse for December. Beginning the Historical Atlas of Skouras. This is a Flash file, so get a Flash reader if you live in a cave. Ten maps are up; I'll be adding two maps a week till it's done.
5 Dev. Yet another rant.
30 Nov. New rant.
19 Nov. Fixed typos on the libertarianism page and the Ukrainian test. Added some references to the former. Added an anti-abuse warning to the mail page.
6 Nov. New rant.
31 Oct. New rant.
30 Oct. Metaverse for November. Added a page on English words from India, and Vadim Urasov's Ukrainian culture test. Improved the logos on several pages. Switched the Kebreni grammar to Unicode, which gets rid of the ugly apostrophes.
22 Sep. Raphael removed some outdated political references in the German culture test.
16 Sep. New rant.
12 Sep. Added some new words in Elkarîl.
10 Sep. Corrections and a few new words for the Chinese word list.
7 Sep. Made some corrections to the Chinese word list, and added a new rant-let.
6 Sep. Metaverse for September. Added a page on Chinese words in English, and Bob reviewed Sin City and Skippy. Also corrected some typos in Virtual Verduria, and noted a few more tribute words in the Secret History of Verduria.
3 Sep. New rant.
16 Aug. Finally filled in the missing panels for a Mafalda cartoon (the second-to-last one).
11 Aug. New rant.
31 Jul. New rant.
24 Jul. Two new Swatoons (#26, 27).
17 Jul. Metaverse for August. Finally finished Old Skourene.
11 Jul. New rant.
12 Jun. Minor correction to the English As She Is Spoke page.
5 Jun. New rant.
17 May. Metaverse for May. Yet another Swatoon (#25). And a culture test for Skouras (which, I hasten to add for the geo-illiterate, doesn't actually exist).
5 May. Corrected a typo in the Elkarîl grammar (ddut means 'sell' not 'buy') and added a new word to the lexicon (nddar 'weapon').
4 May. New rant.
20 Apr. Entirely rewrote my article on what's wrong with libertarianism. : it now takes twice as long to arrive at the same conclusion! (The major changes are to show that yes, people really do say this stuff; to avoid sidebars that no one seemed to read; and to respond to some criticisms.)
16 Apr. New rant.
12 Apr. Metaverse for April: Bob on Rich Burlew and Roy Lichtenstein, plus a page to be named later.
4 Apr. New rant.
13 Mar. Two new Swatoons (#23, 24).
11 Mar. Jeffrey Henning was so anxious to see an RSS feed for zompist.com that he created the initial file for me. That's pretty hard to resist. Supposedly the little XML button above will do something for you RSS types.
9 Mar. New rant.
28 Feb. Metaverse for March. An explication of Jane Jacobs's ideas on cities, the Chinese Culture Test, a new Amerindian word in English (buccaneer), and a new rant.
27 Jan. New rant.
23 Jan. Updated the Jaime Hernandez chronology through issue 12. And, first rant of the year.