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I love this. I disagree with Star Trek, Terminator and Alien, but I acknowledge that this represents conventional wisdom on those franchises. Overall, this is simple and ingenious. via Dear S, via lots of places. Here is the creator’s tumbler blog.

Sure, Mythbusters is cool because its skepical and sciencey and because they tackle fun myths and urban legends and idioms. Sure I enjoy the dynamic between laconic, dour Jamie and hyper dorky, exuberant Adam. But really, I love Mythbusters because they are my people. Emily and I were just saying the other day how we [...]

This clever netizen chose to mark the event of Ricardo Moltalban’s death by determining just how many “A”s there typically are in “KHAAAAAA … AAAAN!” Google search results for “KH(Ax)N” for x=1 to 100: via Boing Boing

This beautiful image is from a series called “Land of the Free” by photographer Steve Schofield. Via RCS.

…where quite a few people have gone before, actually. Emily and I saw Quantum of Solace Saturday night and the much-ballyhooed second Star Trek trailer ran before the film. I couldn’t let the event pass without comment since my childhood was seriously imbued with Trek canon. Before the Next Generation was ever born, I was [...]

Yay! Gravity Lens is back!

Here are two very different user-generated videos, each arguing convincingly against California’s Proposition 8, which would overturn the California Supreme Court’s decision to allow gay marriage in that state. I do not live in California, so I can’t vote on this question, but perhaps some readers will see these videos and think twice before voting [...]

Cory Doctorow linked to Emily’s dissected frog after Neat-o-rama linked to it and now, famed biology blogger, PZ Myers, has blogged the frog (UPDATE: well, technically, he blogged about her dissected rat, but that doesn’t rhyme)! Myers is the blogger who was kicked out of the screening of Expelled back in March (but they didn’t [...]

This might be a new category at Candleblog.  I could write posts about Christopher Hitchens, Tom Waits and Chris Matthews in that category.  Here’s an entry: Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, co-writers of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, had some drinks on Labor Day weekend and sang songs about food to their webcam in their bedroom.  [...]

Part of the process of purging all our crap that Emily and I have been going through for the past couple of months includes parting with stuff I love but can never or will never use.  Such is the case with these t-shirts.  These gems are from my 1990s days of managing Earth Prime Comics [...]