I'm an old, old, old, school girl SNL fan, back when Al was a writer. I've been following this dude for about thirty years now, and I'm always interested to see where he's going. But even without him, I would be interested in this story. What he's proposing seems common sense and yet receives criticism. I am stunned.
Plus, the mock website rocks.
SPOILER: Dark Reign Mystery Reveal At The Atomik Level
What can I say? Marvel suckered me in with Dark Reign.
Do Anything 021 by Warren Ellis
and
Paper Nets
I love Warren Ellis. I do.
Pope makes it easier for Anglicans to convert
So, let me get this straight. If you're Anglican Church has a gay bishop and you all want to become Catholic, it is now cool and groovy with the Holy Roman Catholic Church? Dang.
Nasa's rocket roll-out complete
I can't believe this is a one shot deal.
Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
I can remember playing "Day of the Tentacle" with my boy and laughing my butt off. We loved playing that game!
Whedon Vs. Shelley: Now It Can Be Told!
Joss Whedon and John Byrne? Holy fuck! I must get me to a comic book shop!
SPOILERS: More Asgardian Heroes for Thor?
I am so into being spoiled for the movie Thor.
Wil Wheaton: The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary
Wil talks about his Big Bang Theory episode
- Mood:
cranky - Music:Dan Savage - Savage Love Episode 157
The idea of blowing bits of the moon up bothers me, because I believe that the moon is not ours to blow up. Blasting synthetic craters on the lunar surface for the purpose of finding water or habitable land -- which we'd have enough of if we weren't screwing things up so furtively, back home -- just disturbs me.
Uh, why are we blowing holes in the moon again? We've been to the moon. Men have walked on the moon. We can't walk on the moon again to see if there's water? The solution is to blow a five mile crater in it. Who the fuck is running NASA? One of the space chimps?
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hot
First off is a new movie trailer (I have been watching far too many lately). What can I say? I'm a sucker for Hugh Grant movies. He's a guilty pleasure.
This is very big on the Twitter and web. If you haven't seen it, you've been missing out.
Also, if you haven't been watching The Guild, you've been missing out again!
Now, something for your meaty brain, via Boing Boing (again):
Visualizing up to ten dimensions
Something for you monkey brain:
Manhunt finds handcuffed suspect in trunk of Titusville police car
After an hour of searching for suspected burglar Aldophus Martin Hughes Jr., Titusville police found him hiding in the trunk of a patrol car.
The suspect slipped into the trunk of the police car he was in and the cops spent an hour looking for him.
John August has tons of great writing advice up on his website. His latest, Groundhog Day and Unexplained Magic, brought up some interesting things to think about.
Writer Beware Blogs! Victoria Strauss -- Bad Impressions for Good Impressions Audio Books
Wow. I realize it has to be legal on some level, or such places wouldn't get away with it. But, man, that smacks me of illegal somehow.
For their next movie, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Greg Mottola created a website to hold their "while shooting" videos and pictures. Check out What is....Paul? for some great stuff.
That's it. I'm done. Have a great day!
Yes, I Suck: Self-Help Through Negative Thinking
"A study just published in the journal Psychological Science says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are."
I never wanted to try to be Happy Sally because I knew it would just be one more thing I would fail at - and who needs that?
Wednesday Internet Runaround - USA Today and New York Daily News On Wednesday Comics
Sacha Baron Cohen on Letterman Describing How "Bruno" Got To Interview a Real Terrorist
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drained - Music:Reamonn - Swim
So, watch it now. Right now.
- Mood:
sleepy
Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest - How cool is that?
Pictures from WWII faded into Modern Pictures - truly amazing to see.
The Most Awesome Science Video About DNA Ever Made
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full - Music:Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich - Zoos (Radio Lab)
Commentary: Sasha's smile could be a guide to our future - just some nice commentary
Instant Messages Reveal Relationship Health - this is what I hate about science: 70 couples studied and some sort of determination can be made. How? In a country filled with 303 million people, how can you come to any determination based on quiz answers from 140 people?
Monty Python's free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent - Take that Entertainment Industry!
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tired - Music:the sound of my suck at my work
20 (More) Strange and Exotic Endangered Species - these are not photoshopped at all. Yes, you'll freak out. Bugophobic people probably shouldn't look.
Alternate Currency - xkcd strikes again.
Two tee shirts, a party invitation and talking fish - Neil Gaiman shows off shirts for CBLDF. I want the first one badly, though the Hellboy one isn't bad. Also, they are reissuing the Vertigo Tarot deck for The Sandman anniversary. Yes, I want.
If you're not following Kawaii Not on LJ, you're missing out.
If Christmas Presents Were Honest by Holy Taco
Mercenaries, Sonic Blasters No Match for Pirates - if you build a better mousetrap, you only make a smarter mouse.
Psychopaths have an eye for the underdog - kind of a scary office environment experiment
How Comics Can Save Us From Scientific Ignorance
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rushed
"Here's the U.S. engineering the mother of all bailouts," marveled the diplomat. He says diplomats believe that poor Bush administration policy choices, the lengthy and unresolved military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the general rise of powers like Russia, China, and India have all eroded U.S. power in relative terms.
"America's blindness to recognize how the world has changed" is how the diplomat put it.
'Viking mouse' invasion tracked
"What this suggests to us is that the Norwegian Vikings were taking these mice around and they were taking a particular genetic type; because there are all sorts of genetic types and the particular type that happened to be where the first Vikings picked them up is the one that got spread around."
Much of Britain has another strain with genetic similarities to a type in Germany.
Why Aren't Americans Buying the Bailout?
The most effective warnings are like the most effective TV ads: easily understood, specific, frequently repeated, personal, accurate, and targeted. Paulson and his grim reapers managed only to repeat themselves frequently. They were not easily understood, partly because the problem is so complex. They did not personalize or target their warnings. And, as they themselves admitted, they did not know if their warnings were necessarily accurate, due to the novelty and unpredictability of the crisis.
But their biggest mistake was a lack of specificity. They never clearly told the American people what might happen if Congress did not act. "If you want people to support an action," says Dennis Mileti, an expert on risk communications who has studied hundreds of disasters of the more conventional kind at the University of Colorado, Boulder, "you need to link the action to cutting people's losses. And that link isn't in place."
NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) above the spacecraft's landing site. Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground.
I agree with Warren. It's time to start seeding this planet so we can live there.
Six New Directors Who Are Making Music Video Cool Again
Not long ago, it seemed music videos were doomed to go the way of the radio star. Cool bands hated making them, MTV had stopped showing them, and innovative directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry had long since moved on. Then, somewhere between OK Go's treadmill-dancing "Here It Goes Again" on YouTube (more than 37 million views) and Feist's "1234" choreography lesson turned iPod ad, the music video made a comeback — and launched a new generation of directors more at home with URL than TRL. Meet the next wave of filmmakers and their greatest hits — so far.
Don't Judge New Media by Old Rules
The soul of wisdom is in knowing that all laws are local, that the universal truths you imbibed with your first milk are not universal at all, but rather created. There are stories that take 15 hours to tell, books that stand taller than a man.
Enter the Internet. YouTube Inc. shows us that there's a gigantic market for "shows" that last between 10 seconds and 10 minutes. Blogging tools have conquered all notions of column-inches as understood by magazines and newspapers. Twitter has upset what we thought we knew about blogging, reducing the minimum length of a compelling message to a few characters and increasing the maximum frequency of a communique from a couple an hour to several per minute.
Pearls of great price, not to be devalued
Tell me a story about monasteries, hiking, encyclopedias, maps, or cabins, or any other matter touched on above.
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contemplative
Things to read:
To start, today's funny (and tomorrow's, and the day after that, etc.): Top 10 Warren Ellis 'Tweets'
Yes, they're still funny and I read them the first time.
Oh, sure, they have Universal Health Care, but now they can be arrested immediately!
NO CONTEXT FOR YOU, save that it's a comic about Freud and his male nursing assistant.
Failing Better - Writing Advice from 1916—Part I
How Much Science Do You Need To Know To Write Science Fiction?
How Screenwriters Get Hired: The Unspoken Truth!
Time to read Warren's Tweets again.
- Mood: sleepy, cause it's hubby's fault
Anarchy Rules: The Dishes Stay Dirty
Living in a Punk House - love the stuff, not the clutter
Children's Webkinz are being murdered online
What? Huh? Am I under a rock for not knowing what the fuck a Webkinz is? And why would anyone believe these outlandish rumors about viruses and such? Oh, right, because Untraceable is opening in theatres at the end of this month.
Netflix and HD: a DRM disaster that costs you your videos and control of your hardware
Have I mentioned how much I hate Hollywood Corporations lately?
Bruce Sterling public interview on the state of 2008
I really wished I heard that speech.
Randy flies reveal how booze affects inhibitions
*raises hand* How do you know if fruit flies are gay? Seriously, are the sucking little fruit fly cock?
Time.com - The 10 Keys to the Caucus
Am I the only person in the boat of "who gives a fuck"? I have yet to hear a single candidate over the last year and a half say anything that was remotely real or interesting.
10 Things learned in the course of novel revising
Diana had me at #1.
Strange Geographies: My Town’s “Aborted Suburb”
Only in Florida. It's madness here.
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cold
SKoreans clone cats that glow in the dark: officials
It isn't going to be some large, global thing that's going to take us out, people. It's going to be us because we never stop to question if we should. It's going to be small, some altered genetic thing we shouldn't have, but we did because we could.
- Mood: full
A new study has shown that cockroaches that turned into zombies after being stung by a parasitic wasp can be revived with an antidote.
Science Fiction Writers of America reinstates E-Piracy Committee -- new name, same chairman
This is turning into quite the epic drama. I didn't know Sci-Fi writers watched that much Desperate Housewives, but it seems they do.
Hollywood studios send writers new offer
If you're not reading xkcd three times a week, you're a putz.
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no sleep
Here's a great editorial from Tate Hallaway about children reading beyond themselves. I've never heard of "reading levels" being applied to children before. We read whatever and let Jamie read whatever. We read to him whatever he wanted.
Here's a lovely little story about being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong thing. The villain of this piece? Your US Government.
Some of the best writing advice I've read in a while. It warmed me like a very comfortable, old blanket.
If you're not reading this blog daily, you're missing out on something that could make your day.
Some amazing pictures of California Burning. I remember the fires we had a few years ago. My heart goes out.
A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.
That's better than coffee.
A new study has measured just low long cats can remember certain kinds of information—10 minutes.
The same could be said of humans. I know I've told the boy or the hubby something and ten minutes later - like I hadn't said a word. Cats remember well enough - like everything else, they sort out the bullshit.
Time Travel Machine Outlined
Oddly enough, it looks just like a British police box from the 50's.
WWII Airman Found Frozen On Sierra Nevada Glacier
When Captain America throws his mighty shield...
- Mood:
bitchy - Music:The sound of my own desire longing to go back home
Secret to Overcoming Shyness Revealed ... Tentatively
More people die from prescription drugs than all illegal drugs combined, or so this claims.
10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain
Edmund Fitzgerald artifact discovered
You know, I think I want to go where they believe dragons flew.
Print this off. It looks like a toilet read: Bush Administration's Illegal Dissent Hiding Manual (PDF)
Put your drink down. Go to the potty. Then, click this link.
This is another thing on my list of things to do before I die.
Wil Wheton is a Geek GOD. WORSHIP HIM! FUCKING WORSHIP HIM OR I'LL BEAT YOU!
"Leggy." Real original. Who let the kids name the frog?
You know, Lolly, you keep trying to get me to move to Texas. I don't know.
Today, I saw my first transvestite. He walked into the Municipal Building where one of our branches' houses. He looked fabulous - hair done just so, tasteful make-up, Miami blue top with maatching stretch pants, sparkly shell belt with matching jewelry. And before you ask, I checked Adam's apple, hands and hips - man. Really, the elbows were a dead give away. He looked very pretty though.
Hee. Happy Friday. May you have a bit of surreal magic today.
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