I have been lax on the recent spate of shark attack stories in the news and I apologize. At first it was because the stories were reasonably written, no hysteria and Summer of Fear is all about hysteria. Anyhow, I slipped up so here is a shark eating a guy off the coast of Mexico. [...]

They are teaching bears Kung-Fu in Japan. We are doomed.

Via Mightygodking
Also When Celebrity Bears Kill

So lets say you are a principaled music fan, you only buy legal music online and the whole Digital Rights Management thing never really bothered you. You bought a ton of music from Microsoft, they are the biggest guys in town so you know you are risk free right? Right. Microsoft is about to turn [...]

This is an interesting story I missed in the Guardian, but Cronaca didn’t, about the stone circles of Gobekli Tepe which have been dated about 7,000 years earlier than Stone Henge in pre-agricultural history. Nothing that sophisticated has been found from that far back.
Compared with Stonehenge, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated [...]

Comic books. Free ones. Free comic books. Come on, you know life doesn’t get much better than that.

Carol sent me a link to the The Miskatonic Valley Junior Baseball Association the other day and I thought I should share it with you all. Due to unfortunate circumstances the league is down to two teams this year, the The Innsmouth Guppies VS the Dunwich Whippoorwills. I am a bit broke right now or [...]

I am doing some work on the design of this website so if you see anything broken or miss something let me know. I will be reworking the site’s theme, adding support for Gravatars and generally poking about for the next couple of days.

Today’s Partially Clips sums up how I view insurance and manages a good conversation on being eaten by bears. A double win.

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Orioles Park at Camden Yards, originally uploaded by gleefulgecko.

We had the worst trip to and from the stadium last night that you can imagine. The bus had raised their prices and were running less buses [...]

Just a reminder that May 3rd is Free Comic Book Day, America’s Favorite Holiday! I have discovered a number of great small press comics on Free Comic Book Day, so if you can read you have no excuse for not finding a local comic book store and stopping by on May 3rd! Cripes people, it [...]