Idle thoughts
Have you heard about this WATCHMEN movie that's coming out? We're not sure what it's about, but it looks kind of loud.
This interview with the director, Zack Snyder, is interesting. Did you know...
Something cute to look at #2
Via Jonathan Ross's Twitter
Even Bono thinks Clive Owen is hot, evidently.
How sweet the silent backwards tracings
Sorry we disappeared yesterday. We had chores to do.
BTW, isn't a shame that comics don't have word balloons on the covers any more?
Captain Kirk planning to take over Canadian civilization
William Shatner, beloved blowhard, pitchman, voice-over actor, and the man who made the phrase "Get a life!" famous as a nerd icon, would like to run for Prime Minister of his native...
Random blogging advice
I remember summer!
Via Sleestak.
Now that we've all woken up, let's talk meta. Let's talk THE BLOGGING LIFE AND THE TOOLS THEREOF. The other day Marc-Oliver gave a nice shout out to dedicated daily...
Lost: “Nice to meet you.”
Looks like we have a new mystery on our hands.
That and so much more after the jump....
Okay, the question is .... "Whose mother is the girl with the gun?"
She was called Ellie, so...
Our new favorite show
Better than Gordon Ramsay? Better than Snapped? Maybe. Destroyed in Seconds is one of those "YouTube on the small screen shows" that strings together clips of disasters and so on. But the disasters...
Once, children WANTED to be astronauts
Alarming headline: Astronauts tinker with urine-to-water machine
Even more alarming lede:
Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the...
The history of the Internet via John Hodgman and Bruce Campbell
This weekend, we caught a Halloween evening screening of MY NAME IS BRUCE. For those not following the saga, this Dark Horse-produced film tells the Galaxy Quest-like story of a town -- beset by...
16 Days of Halloween: Jose Ladronn
Today's Halloween art comes from Jose Ladronn and HIP FLASK. Ladronn was born in Mexico and won a 2006 Eisner Award for his work on HIP FLASK: MYSTERY CITY.Keep those cards and letters coming,...
New superglue may help Spidey come closer to reality…or not
An incredible new Gecko-like glue is said to be the stickiest yet. Using some fancy-schmancy system of carbon nanotubes enhanced with curly strands of carbon, the new glue is 10 times stickier than a...
