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In order to please the masses, Rand once again chained me to my desk and ordered me to do a recap of SES London in an amusing comic book fashion. Thanks to Jeff and his spiffy MacBook (ComicLife yo!), this time I was able to create this batch of comics much easier than SES Chicago's Flash-tastrophe. Thanks, Jeff!

Anyway, I hereby present to you SES London: The Comic Strip. Special thanks to Liana Evans, Alex Bennert, and Becky Ryan for contributing some photos. Also, thanks to Scott for his wonderful artistic skills--he really captured the essence of Allan choking on his dinner. By the way, this strip is a bit bigger than Chicago's (after all, Europe is slightly more photogenic than sub-zero Chi-Town), so hopefully your comps won't get bogged down.

Oh, and if you like the project, feel free to send donations...I heard Rand grumbling the other day about "monetization" and "wedding to pay for," so I'm sure Designmoz would appreciate the tips.

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As Jim Hedger and I discussed on our weekly radio show on Webmaster Radio today, Abdel Kareem Nabil has just been sentenced to 4 year in prison, 3 of these years are for insulting Islam and inciting sectarian strife and one year for insulting President Mubarak.

As Jim mentioned on the SiteProNews blog, here is what he was charged for:

Nabil wrote about riots in which a Coptic Christian church was attacked by Muslim worshipers over a play deemed offensive to Islam. "Muslims revealed their true ugly face and appeared to all the world that they are full of brutality, barbarism and inhumanity," he wrote, calling Muhammad and his early followers, "spillers of blood" for their teachings on the use of violence.

Now, I'm definitely not going to step in and make this any sort of religious post, we've all been less than perfect at one time or another and there are enough "spillers of blood" to go around BUT what's a key issue here is the man's right to be heard (or read as the case may be).

As we noted on the show, I would call on any and all bloggers to bring this point up and, as Jim asked, to avoid vacations to Egypt until such time as these sorts of things don't occur and there is freedom of speech applied to those who may disagree with the status-quo. Right or wrong, every voice deserves the right to be heard.<