I have been falling down in my duty to remind you that this Saturday, May 2nd 2009 is Free Comic Book Day, the best holiday of the year in that on it, you get free comic books. It is so simple and pure and the comics cover a wide range of interests, not just superheroes. [...]
The second book of Lars Brown’s North World has just come out and it is very good. I have been reading this strip on the web since just after it started. On the web I felt the current story line dragged a bit, though it has picked up solidly as the story wrapped up, in [...]
Ana Marie Cox, the former Wonkette, notices the White House Press Pool Reporters are useless. I find it interesting how it takes the people who make their living off off light news, like Cox and Drew Pearson at Fark to point out how useless so much of the media has become. I love my light [...]
Ok this is a contestant I didn’t see coming at all, but this story has Summer of Fear written all over it. Fir tree tries to grow inside man’s lungs.
If you been getting breathless warnings about the latest worm (Conficker) on the internet this is a handy little page that will tell you if you should be worried or not. Very clever trick using the worms attack against itself. Do you relatives all call you when one of these is on the news?
This was a very heartening story for me, but I almost didn’t post it as at first I suspected it was an April Fools hoax. Apparently ants that are taken as slaves when their hives are destroyed actively rebel. That is very heartening to me, it means that the urge to resist tyranny must run [...]