Linkpharm:

• Online couple cheated with each other — sounds an awful lot like an Onion headline, doesn’t it? [via]
• 30 Code Words for Sugar [via]
• How to Write a Movie for the Sci-fi Channel in Six Easy Steps [via]
• LOLthulhu [via]
• The Namesakes of 10 Legendary Drawn Characters — A lot of these are pretty obvious, or at least pretty well established already, but there are a few I’d never heard before and some more interesting ones (Foghorn Leghorn, anyone?) in the comments. [via]
• The Daily Telegraph wonders Why does Hollywood get the writer so wrong? [via]
• Magic dragon — an amazing optical illusion
• Is a stolen joke worth $65 million?
• Is a walk-on role in Will Ferrel’s new movie worth $50,000?
• Who would have thought “human leg found in smoker” would ever be the least strange part of any story? [via]
• Is Vista really this bad? Microsoft quietly unveils Vista-to-XP downgrade [via]
• The Last Starfighter: The Musical [via]
• Star Wars: The Musical — ~o/ “He is me. I am Obi-Wan. I am him – the one and only one.” /o~ [via]
• Spider-Man: The Musical — and, apparently, Marilyn Manson wants to be cast in it. [via]
• Nickelodeon aired nothing for three hours today, in an effort to get kids to go outside and exercise. I admire the impulse but wonder what, if any, effect it had.
• A scanned page from David Tennant’s school yearbook. The one role the then-17-year-old Tennant (born MacDonald) would have loved to play? Doctor Who. [via]
• Tom Green and Crispin Glover via]
• Are “girlie” book covers are turning boys away from reading? [via]
• Marriage proposal via crossword puzzle? Sounds geekily romantic. [via]
• Stephen King opines on what ails the short story. Although I think Ellen Datlow offers a much more sensible response.
• You know, I’d never heard of the Devil’s Bible before, but that Warren Ellis hadn’t either…
• Anarchy in middle age… The Sex Pistols are re-uniting [via]
• The world’s most expensive dessert — I don’t know, the 80-carat gemstone sort of seems like cheating.