You had me at “Sexy Viking Women”

I liked the movie Gettysburg, despite problems like glue on beards and a semi-crazed Robert E. Lee it was a pretty good movie but it can’t hold a candle to the awesome Gettysburg movies linked below.

This is the perfect Garfield cartoon. Check it out before the lawyers strike.

Two good Summer of Fear articles today, the first is on the Ten Most Painful Bites with bites that range from to
Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch rusty nail in your heel.
to the more subtle
You’ll be screaming and writhing in agony. & It feels like every gland in [...]

The Puppini Sisters sound is a deliberate throwback to the Andrews Sisters and they are very good at capturing the style. I picked up both their albums, Betcha Bottom Dollar and their newest album, The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo and while I like both I think the second album is better on a [...]

Ok, Shark kills man, that is bad and I am sorry for the man, but then you read it was a tour company that puts divers in the water with no cages and chums for hammerheads and you start to think this is well past the pushing your luck line.
Abernethy’s website advertises shark-diving excursions to [...]

Hungry bears are threatening to eat all of eastern Europe. Its another Summer of Fear contender!

Robert Scoble pointed out a brilliant source for listening to some great samples of bands performing at this year’s South By South West Festival in Austin, Texas from March 12 - 18 of 2008. Someone has grabbed all the samples from the music pages and loaded them into a torrent file. I had to download [...]

An interesting article I missed in the Telegraph says that they have possibly identified a body found at the abbey graveyard of Hulton Abbey as that of Hugh Despencer. Hugh was hanged, disemboweled then drawn and quartered and the body found has appropriate wounds to have had this done to it. In addition the body [...]

I have two more good webcomics to recommend today. One I have been reading for quite awhile and I am not sure how I stumbled across it originally. It is called Minus and it has a wonderful quirky storytelling method that is both joyous and very, very creepy. Minus is a magical little girl and [...]