- Patton Oswalt’s commencement speech at his old high school — “I’m going to get out of your way now. Get out there. Let’s see which one of you is up here in twenty years. If you’re lacking confidence, remember – I wouldn’t have picked me.” [via]
- Two cavemen walk into a bar… The world’s ten oldest jokes. And still funnier than Dane Cook. [via]
- Remember that “Obama is too thin” story that ran in The Wall Street Journal the other day? The reporter’s sources came from trolling Yahoo message boards. Ah, journalism! [via]
- Wanna see what Buffy: The Animated Series might have looked like? Well now you can, with this spec video. It’s not phenomenal, and I think this ship has sailed, but it could have been very cool. And I was impressed: Giselle Loren sounds more or less exactly like Sarah Michelle Gellar. I’m in the mood suddenly to revisit some of earlier Buffy episodes. [via]
- Nancy Kress on the point of fiction. I’m not sure I agree with her completely, but it’s an interesting take nonetheless. [via]
- George Bush: “Wall Street got drunk.” Well, I guess if anyone would know about getting drunk… [via]
- An interesting writing experiment: rewriting science fiction as fantasy and vice versa. [via]
- Is reading online really reading? There’s a part of me that wants to say, “Of course it is. Get with the times, old fogies.” But there’s also a part that wants to say, “Um, no, it’s really not.” [via]
- I’m not sure how I feel about eating food from a company whose founder thinks “frozen foods taste better than anything I could grow in my garden.” But I may not have a choice. [via]
- And, like a cancer, Wal-Mart spreads [via]
- You’ve no doubt heard (everywhere) that there really is water on Mars. And apparently a liquid lake on Saturn’s Titan. [via]
- A “Garfield Minus Garfield” book raises all sorts of interesting copyright issues, but if Ballantine is going ahead, I suspect Paws Media (if not Jim Davis himself) is on board, so maybe it’s a non-issue, really. Davis is, apparently, a fan, so that helps. [via]
- You know, I’m not really a Deerhoof fan, but this is a really interesting idea: releasing your new single as sheet music and asking other bands to record covers. [via]
- Note to Mike Myers: Please just stop.
- Remake Farscape in Battlestar Galactica‘s image? As Abigail Nussbaum notes, this is a very bad idea indeed. It completely misses the point of what made Farscape so special and misunderstands the nature of camp. (Which, for the most part, Farscape never was.)
- Vampire energy. Looking around the room, I think about as guilty of this as the next person. Although I do make sure to unplug my laptop when I leave for work in the morning. [via]
- It’s okay to plead the Fifth. Why you should never talk to the police.
- “How many of us do you think could become a Batman? If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate.” [via]