1) Best Worst ad placement ever.
2) Marketing ebooks in brick-and-mortar stores. This is pretty damn cool. Too bad I don’t have any of this tech.
3) To respond to a previous Randomness: The United States of Awesome. Fucking Delaware.
4) Wall decorations that prove you’re a total grownup. “I simply haven’t met a boy yet who interests me! And until I do, I’d rather walk alone than date just anyone!”
5) “Hand monster!!!” Video.
6) Why I’ll never eat at a Chick-Fil-A.
7) Axe Cop… The Movie!
1) Which TV jobs go to which character?
2) The Comics Code Authority is dead.
3) I feel safer knowing this woman is in prison. Great work, authoritarian assholes!
4) The United States of Shame. Although I have no idea why Iowa, Ohio, or Utah should be ashamed of those things. (Go WA state!)
5) Dine like a Basil Fawlty customer (for some reason).
6) “If there’s a camel up a hill then it’s Gong Li with me…” Video. I laughed so hard at this that I actually cried, I kid you not.
7) A more serious video on redesigning medical information. Hell yes.
1) A Wrinkle in Time in 90 seconds. Video. So. Effing. Cute.
2) MEOW. Video. Zombies uber alles, yeah?
3) A jury of your peers, not a jury of your purrs. I deeply regret writing that previous sentence.
4) Before and after photos of the flooding in Australia. Mouse over the pics to change them.
5) Why I don’t pay much attention to reader reviews.
6) “Impossible” physics w/out special effects. Video. Trompe l’oeil made awesome.
7) Edgar Allen Pooh.
1) Why you shouldn’t text and walk. Video.
2) Five self-defense books for women who want to lose a fight. Comic Life put to good use, I say. via Martha Wells.
3) Casey Kasem might curse at me for following a funny bit with a sad one, but Reading as Comfort.
4) Perspective on the “Tiger Mother” book, via Douglas Triggs. It’s interesting to hear the way the WSJ edited Chua’s book to make it seem like she’d written a manual for creating “model minority” children. And by “interesting” I mean “fucked up.”
5) Nothing is Forgotten. A webcomic.
6) Pixar’s sculpture zoetrope. Wow. Video. via Tor.com
7) “But if you’re going to go there, you have to go there. If this feels safe, comfortable, or affirming, you’ve done something wrong.” Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederacy, but there’s a lot to think about for anyone who needs to do a little world-building.
1) Commissioner Gordon is a Jerk.
2) What’s it like living in Playboy Mansion? Apparently, the answer is: rigidly schduled.
3) Drill Close to Reaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake.
4) Hoping for a big time Hollywood deal? Hah!
5) Muslims protect Christians.
6) Don’t buy your comics from this asshole.
7) “Inland tsunami” sweeps away cars in Toowoomba, Australia. Video part one. Video part two.
1) Woman laughing alone with salad.
2) “How’s Your Poor Feet!” Manly slang of the 19th century.
3) The year according to Tom Toles. Excellent.
4) Amazon.com pulls ebook that explains how to game its sales rankings. What? You mean Amazon’s sales rankings aren’t worth anything? Who could have known?
5) Are you a Comic Sans Criminal?
6) Countries winning the fight against poverty, in a way that’s so simple no one in the U.S. will believe it.
1) Five skiffy death sports you can host in your own home. Reader, I lol-ed.
2) “America sends its best hunks to save the Earth.”
3) Dwayne’s Photo, a little family-owned shop in Parsons, Kansas, is closing down. They were the last processor in the world who could handle Kodachrome film, which Kodak stopped manufacturing in 2009, and now their equipment is going to be sold for scrap.
4) When are we happy? When are we not happy? Video. This one is long, but very, very interesting.
5) How It’s Made: PASS-ta. Video.
6) Robots Speak Out Against Asimov’s First Law Of Robotics.
7) The Most Epic Use of Google Docs Ever (aka Google-doc-based animation). Video.
2) The Gawker Media security breach gives us a chance to see the 13 most common passwords.
3) Ten building converted to bookstores. Very cool photos. via @victoriastrauss
4) Wikileaks cables turned into comics.
5) Eleven weird D&D questions from The Dragon’s “Sage Advice” column.
6) Why you should never fry gnocci. Video.
7) Yogi Bear is like District 9 but way more depressing. A really interesting review of a really uninteresting movie.
1) The Avengers have a change in health care plans. Video. Pretty funny.
2) And, to switch to DC, Batman as life-size puppet stage show on Japanese TV. Video. You know you can’t resist a description like that. Via
4) Ten comics-related gifts guaranteed to ruin your Christmas.
5) An alignment chart for DS9. Personally, I would switch lawful evil and neutral evil, but that’s me.
6) Seven horrifying cost-cutting measures.
7) The Penmonkey’s Paean. “I will not sing lamentations to my weakness.” Damn but I needed to read this today. Thanks, JJ.
1) Wow. Monsters drawn on post-it notes. via tor.com
2) 10 Things the New Batman Live! Show should include. I mean, duh! As if they wouldn’t include a bit where Batman fights a gorilla.
4) The United States of Movies. For Americans, which movie do you want to represent your state? I’m surprised PA isn’t ROCKY.
5) Battles won with unusual weapons.
6) Ten centuries of change in five minutes: Changes to European nation-states from the year 1000. Video. Pretty cool, but what it really needs is a counter giving the year.
7) Quidditch for Muggles. Video.
