Archives for June, 2008

packin’ uke

so ryan comes to me and he's all 'have you seen the girl on youtube covering 'toxic' on the ukelele?' and i'm all 'no, but ...


SCIENCE!

mars had the top of its head shot off a long time ago. this is actual science. the conundrum was that mars' southern hemisphere is ...


jack bauer - hero of the future

24 day one premiered in november of 2001. it's an election year, unspecified, for the sake of clarity we'll say it's actually 2001 and ...


barr is the new nader

the gop is worried that bob barr's libertarian candidacy will steal votes from mccain's base and risk a naderesque democratic win. which is of course ridiculous. ...


stupid tree rat

so i stepped on a squirrel this morning. stupid bastard ran right out in front of me, literally right underfoot. i trod upon ...


open secret

abhay vs secret invasion #1 I think a lot of people have rejected the premise on a one-word basis: "Skrulls? NO! YOU SUCK." But this one-- look, ...


make mine marvelous

as has been much discussed recently, the comics industry is in trouble. many ideas have been put forth, but most of them are simply ...


stay with me here

july 11 - atlantis season five july 29 - eureka season three november-ish - 24 day seven prequel movie thing january 2009 - 24 day seven february? 2009 - ...


tricky dick

the futurama figures came with parts to build the robot devil, which is great, except he's the only figure i would have bought straightaway. nice one, ...


synchronicity

colonel chekov, the stuffy russian ambassador from sg-1, did the voices of marsala on exosquad and optimus primal on beast wars, both of whom were ...


mild discomfort

i let nyarlo.com expire on over at joker.com because i didn't have the $12 for the year right then, and figured i'd get around to ...


by accident

scott and annie got a new non-broken camera, so i got a new less-broken camera. at least this one works, my old bastard has ...


every ipod should have a camera

everything, really. ipods, phones, sunglasses, piercings... ubiquitous microphotography. that's the whole point of it, after all. you're not taking pro-grade photos, ...