Palin: Inane Airhead and Accidental Poet

Talkin' Wild Things

Sendak and Jonze talk about Where the Wild Things Are



Via GeekDad

Good Transcripts

An obsessive, and possibly crazy, person has been writing transcripts for the greatest cooking show yet produced, Good Eats. (To get to them you have to go to the episode page and then the transcript page. Cricket Christ, I hate the frames.)

Despite the crappy web design, the transcripts are fun. Right now I'm reading "True Grits" and soon will be deep into "Eat This Rock!," followed by "Dill-icious." (Yeah, I'm sort of in a pickling mood today.)

Comics at a Comic Con?

Valerie D'Orazio thinks about the place of comic book retailers at the big comic conventions:

I don't really see girls who like "Twilight" as the reason the convention is being "stolen" away. Really, the bigger issue is this: media conglomerates have taken comic book culture and "Andy Warholized" it, presenting us with mass-market, mass-produced, highly vetted versions of that culture's icons. But not only that, the conglomerates have appropriated the comic book/"fan" community's mechanism of promotion & dissemination of information: the convention. So that's the Icons and the Mechanism being appropriated.

Calling BS on Mediums

Why Didn't We Think of That?

We Are Parents Again!

Mom and baby girl, Rowan Kysa Taylor, are happy and healthy!

Stats:

• Born at 2:57 PM PCT
• 8lbs 10oz
• 20 1/8 inches long
• Adorable

That is all for now.
UPDATE: Now with photo!

Global Leader in Fish Technologies

Trailer

Where the Wild Things Are trailer

They're not allowing embedding and I really don't want to go searching for an embeddable version.

1984

Oh, the beautiful irony!

Like Braile on the Internet?

There is something both wonderful and absurd about the fact that this exists. I haven't listened to any, but I've heard that they are not exactly... uh... sexy, shall we say? Now I'm fully distracted by speculating whether this is a service that is actually interesting to blind people or if there is some other subset of humans for whom this is titillating.

Immigrant Gods Sing

Like a BOSS

NOT SAFE FOR WORK!



Potentially accurate, though I've never seen a real boss send his own faxes.


(Thanks to The Caffeinatrix!)

I found a fail!

I submitted it to failblog.

The Noam Chomsky Show

(Via Brian Leiter; Crossposted to Johnny Logic)

Short, Short, Short Story Contest

NPR is holding a contest, which ends this week. (I just learned about it.)

This summer, we're beginning a contest called "Three-Minute Fiction." The premise is simple: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less — that's usually about 500-600 words long.

The winner gets interviewed on Weekend All Things Considered, gets to have his or her story read on air, and gets a book.

Here's where you'll find the rules.

I submitted one and hope to get another in.

How about you?

Lovelace and Babbage Comics!

Turing bless Sydney Padua for his alternate universe version of Lovelace and Babbage.

Read them all:

• The origin of Ada Lovelace
• Babbage vs The Economy, part 1, part 2, and part 3
  
• Ada Lovelace in The Person from Porlock
• Babbage and Lovelace vs The Client (in progress)

READ THEM!

The Powerpuff Girls - The Mayor as the Big Lebowski

This is so very good. That is all.

GROW UP, Already!

Oh, Morgan Freeman- that's just... gross. And sad.

Not sure I can ever look at him the same way again...

Don't Mess with Mr. Stuffins

Teddy Ruxpin meets Bond. I'm sold!

Really?

My first thought upon seeing the above picture was not Sarlacc Pit.

(To be fair, though, as I got older, when I saw that scene in Jedi, all I could really see was the teeth and that made me think of being bitten.)

via GeekDad

How did Death Star 2 blow up?

Oh, yeah!

There's another panel to the comic, but really, who cares?

The Uber-Cute

Many more over here.

I had to cleanse myself after reading the horrible Pokémon fan fiction.

Happy Fourth, Muppet Style

Fail tats

Peruse THESE beauties! My favorites include the six-pack and the "butterfly"

When you tried to kiss me / I only bit your tongue. / When you tried to get me together / I only came undone.

DAAAAAAAARIA!
DAAAAAAAARIA!

And I thought yesterday's news was exciting.

I never thought this would happen.
I bought the movie DVDs, which have episodes missing the music.
I bought a bootleg of the entire series with many episodes lookin' poor and one that didn't work all the way through.

The music may be hacked up, but it doesn't matter to me.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -huuuuuuuuuh- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -huuuuuuuuh- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

FARSCAPE IS COMING BACK TO DVD! IN A SERIES SET!


I own the first two episodes twice in my youthful, and vain, attempts to purchase the series the first and second time it was released. Here's to hoping that third time will really be a charm.

If they're gonna play with dolls...

Maybe instead of Barbie or Bratz, your little one can play with these:

It's a better role model (IMO). Too bad they are about a thousand smackers instead of ten. Geez, ever heard of manufacturing?

[Dollmore.net]