1) Can YOU crack the Zodiac Killer’s cipher? The original documents are now available online.
2) Pop quiz: Comic book character or wrestling move?
4) I hope I hope I never get a book cover like these. via genreville
5) This book on hoarding sounds fascinating!
6) Take a look at the 15th, 20th and 24th pictures. (Not to mention all the nice happy people).
1) Fantasy art or currently erupting Icelandic volcano?
2) Camera technology detects buried corpses from a plane.
3) A Choose-Your-Own Adventure, Lego Animation Style: Ronald Has A Spider On His Head.
4) Despite the URL, this link is totally safe for work: a celebration of portraiture. I love these pictures more than I should. I especially love the top one in the “Cowboys” entry.
5) I can’t see this at work; somebody please watch it and tell me if it’s cool.
6) Third edition POKETHULHU rules now available as free download.
7) A Hobbit hole too small even for Bilbo. At first I was all “Call me when you make something you can live in,” but as I scrolled through all the pictures, I was more and more impressed.
1) Hire an evil clown to stalk your child! Does this scream “Media hoax!” to anyone else?
2) This only needs one word: iPie.
3) Short hair is the new long hair.
4) Deleted
5) Automated online blackmail.
6) The internet was made for this: Betty White in a Metal Bikini Wielding a Flaming Chainsaw While Riding a John Ritter Centaur
7) The trustworthiness of beards. via pnh’s Sidelights.
1) Hoarding TV shows cured my hoarding.
2) Old comic book Hostess and Twinkie ads repurposed for the KFC Double Down.
3) An old Randomness entry revisited: House made of Lego blocks destroyed.
4) Propaganda posters for 80’s arcade games.
5) 3D without the glasses. Not for folks who are drunk, hungover, or slightly queasy.
1) Want Star Trek gear? A warehouse full of ST: The Experience props and costumes is up for auction.
2) Nicolas Cage’s Ugly Mansion. Eight pictures, each worse than the last. No, actually number four is the worst. This living room is a disaster, though.
3) These aren’t new, but maybe some folks haven’t seen them before: Recut move trailers that make kids movies seem like horror films, and horror films seem like domestic dramas. SCARY MARY is my favorite.
4) Businessinsider.com offers 15 charts about wealth and income inequality in America. Some of the charts have small text, but there’s a link beneath that’ll take you to a larger version. Also: Wow. via Ezra Klein.
5) One unfortunate way to express displeasure over medical advice.
6) “Who put these unpeeled grapes in my fruit bowl!” In which John Scalzi lives a blessed life–one he’s totally earned–and that’s a beautiful thing.
1) Which is nerdier: Dr. Who or the X-Men? From the Extremely Bad Advice column.
2) Barack Obama looking at awesome things. via @Scalzi
3) Tricks for better Google searches.
5) How MMORPG designers keep you playing, even when you’re not having fun. More about this later, I think. via Kate Nepvue
6) An instance of Nerd Rage examined. –although this isn’t relegated to nerds (“geeks” whatever you want to call them). The Kindlegarteners dropping one-star reviews on Amazon.com because they can’t buy a Kindle edition in Australia, or because they think the price point is too high are no different than these bitterly angry LOTR fans.
7) 11 Tips for bookselling success at brick-and-mortar stores.
1) The NYTimes (attempts to) compare the environmental impact of paper and electronic books.
2) Scrabble to allow proper nouns. Is this worse than the Designated Hitter rule? Save us Will Shorts!
3) How to write a stupid book review. “Once upon a time in a world far, far away, publishing was run by editors.” Also, it’s amazing how many people heap shit on urban fantasy because it’s perceived to be about women. I say this as an author who is uncomfortable when people praise my work as if it’s an antidote to UF about women and their sex lives.
4) Beautiful photos of the circus, circa 1910.
5) Picturesque old postcards with added alien invasion.
6) Spawn, GI Joe, Optimus Prime, and other figures done in Lego.
1) The Science of Newton’s Cradle. That’s NEWTON’S CRADLE the hard sf independent movie, not the actual toy.
2) How ten movies would be different if they came from Nicholas Sparks novels. via alg.
3) Opening a hotel room door by going under. Be sure to watch the video.
4) Leonardo DiCaprio as Travis McGee? I have to admit that I’m dubious, but maybe he can pull it off. The real question is why Hollywood continues to make crime/detective movies. Are the budgets low enough to balance low box office? Is it the DVD sales?
5) A Suvudu death match between a GRRM character from A Song of Ice and Fire and a Patrick Rothfuss character inspires this hilarious comment.
6) A Victorian-era sex scholar, and her research.
7) Students recreate “Starry Night” on large scale… in cereal. I wish I was this interesting.
1) Non-Adventures of Wonderella is awesome.
2) This one is NSFW: Forehead Tittaes. via SmartBitches
3) A horror film that calls YOU!
4) Somehow I think this is not an official traffic law.
5) This made me laugh myself sick. via barbarienne
6) “He thought if he could save one chubby girl, he’s done his job,” Lutz said. Pft. That’s what every guy going crazy with a hunting knife thinks.
7) You know what? This shouldn’t have been a TV show in the first place, let alone a damn movie. Did you know that box office poison smells like almonds? It’s true.
1) The fully compiled results of Jim Hines’s First Novel Survey.
2) Marriage vs. PhD. via @ccfinlay.
3) I’m sure this guy can get a divorce at the same court appearance when his wife gets her conviction.
4) President Obama’s Facebook page, HCR edition. “I smell Democrat.”
5) Literary troll is trollish.
6) What can surprise Werner Herzog? “It’s not a serious wound.”
7) The future of text?. They’d like you to think so.
