When Worlds Collide
As us nerds remember all too well from high school, the "jock clique" and the "geek clique" don't often mix well. So, imagine what it was like the other day when the Mets (the...
J. Caleb Mozzocco on the transience of happiness
See the whole thing at Every Day Is Like Wednesday:
Did anyone else…
...get that spam offering to sell email addresses of Freemasons?
Weird. Paging Rex Mundi.
Giant hand in space
Nasa has discovered a giant hand crushing the stars out in space:
Red represents low-energy X-rays, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. The blue hand-like structure was created...
Infinite Monkey Comics randomizes chaos
Flickr and Twitter are pretty much the Infinite Monkey Theory in actual practice--ultimate ephemeral randomness, projected from the brains of a representative sampling that approaches the average. And now you can prove it by...
Well, that was stupid
Today is a bad day at Stately Beat Manor, as I managed to badly sprain my ankle in a humiliating home accident that involved no savings of kittens, bear wrestling or heroic feats. Just...
Back to the road
You'll all be glad to hear that our NYCC-induced state of optimism has been washed away by life back in the real world, and we're back to collecting recipes for turnips and learning how...
Recession Watch: Welcome to the Essex!
(Above: The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer)
Well, people, in case you haven't noticed, it is a grim time in the empire. When people ask how we're doing, we keep thinking of the haunting story...
Inaccurate headline of the day
Stan Lee 'to create worlds first gay superhero'.
Apparently the story first appeared in the UK Sun, which explains much.
This is bigger than the both of us
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews perhaps the worst comic of all time, and a new catch phrase -- at least for this morning's Twitter, is born.
End times, continued
It snowed in Vegas yesterday.
We've often thought about what the most absurd sight possible on earth might be, and this was one of them. The Vegas where, on at least two separate occasions, a...
