NYC folks, there's a new comic shop in Cobble Hill.

Rocketship is Brooklyn's newest comic book and graphic novel store, opening in August at 208 Smith Street, with a wide selection of graphic novels, alternative comics, "DIY" mini-comics, and original comic art. To help celebrate the grand opening, Rocketship will host "Cartoon Brooklyn," a gallery show featuring work by some of Brooklyn's best local artists. Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Dean Haspiel (Opposable Thumbs, The Quitter), Matt Madden (A Fine Mess, Odds Off), and Josh Neufeld (A Few Perfect Hours, The Vagabonds) will all have work displayed in the store throughout August and September. An opening reception will be held on July 29th, from seven until ten in the evening, complete with an open bar that will be serving wine and beer in the store's garden. (Please contact Alex Cox at 718-797-1348 to be added to the guest list.)

pictures at the store's blog. apparently there's a garden. i wonder if they'll let you bring in beer and joints.

anyway, go check it out and let me know what you think.

if you are going to OSCon, i'll be at the CalDAV BOF on Wed evening. the meeting will obviously adjourn to a bar in short order. if you otherwise happen to be in Portland at all next week, please rescue me from the geekfest and show me around town. regards.

update: looks like there is also a "meet the OSAF people" BOF. i guess somebody forgot to tell me. i tried to think of a joke to explain that but couldn't come up with anything. maybe i need to show up in the office more.

XML.com had an interesting article a couple days ago about securing RSS content. The gist of it is that you can encrypt some content, stick it into an RSS item's description, and then use a Greasemonkey script to decrypt it when viewing the feed. Seems easy enough. I guess if i had syndicated content that I wanted to secure, this would be a nice and simple approach. Of course, now that Atom 1.0 is about to be released, Bloglines will add XML Encryption support and the issue will go away. Anyway, it's the first interesting use of Greasemonkey i've seen.