9:38 PM (0 comments)
I like foreign films. Do you? (via Neil Gaiman)

9:23 PM (0 comments)
For more than 1.3 million years*, Yahoo has been the default page I pull up when I start my web browser. With the new personalized Google portal, those days may be over.

* Net years; conversion to people years gives result of "five".

11:14 AM (0 comments)
What he's eating:
Adrenalin Rush energy drink and nachos Vera Cruz

What he's crying about:
Will never have as much fun as he used to have

Via Waxy, Crying While Eating. Don't miss clicking on the pictures to see the videos.

3:00 PM (0 comments)
My friend, future megastar Katie Davis, is one of the featured artists on NPR's All Songs Considered Open Mic this week. Go and listen, and don't forget to help her on her climb to chart domination by voting on her song. Might I suggest a 5? Of course I might.

2:24 PM (1 comments)
"Upon completion, we were faced with a 26427 calorie, 1566 total fat grams, 12 pound candy bar. Divided by a 2 oz single serving Snickers bar that equals 100 total servings.

Gape in awe at a giant candy bar, and learn how to make your own. Frankly, it looks terrifyingly easy. I fear for the children.

6:10 PM (0 comments)
"I don't like Batman," complained one student.

"Just look at the Superman half, then," I suggested.

But he wasn't satisfied. "Batman's kind of... dark," he said. (Kind of?) "If he's a hero, why does he act so scary?"

"Because 'criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot'!" I recited impatiently. "What do they teach you kids in school?"

"You're our teacher!"

Via Zusty, Japanese schoolkids learn about the Composite Superman.

10:49 PM (0 comments)
Is there anything you can't learn to do on the Internet? How to make fake fingerprints (via Memepool.)

10:25 PM (0 comments)
Via Hackaday and Engadget, the Noise Shirt.

10:20 PM (0 comments)
I'm hesitant to propagate bad press, but I do so for two reasons: First, I know it will be of interest to many of you. Second, I would be willing to stake money that what was being played was not what I (or likely, you) consider to be a "role-playing game". That said, I give you this bizarre story:

"Three killed over role-playing game in Brazil"

(via an industry mailing list.)

9:15 PM (0 comments)
Via Drawn, Dreams of Space, a collection of illustrations for children's books on space travel, from the 1880s right up to a book I remember reading as a child.

Also via Drawn, a history of pop-up books.