- Ten Things to Know About the Future of Comics. [via]
- After this interview with Roger Ebert and his recent Fresh Air interview, I’m starting to think maybe I underestimated Justin Timberlake.
- Inside the Lennon/McCartney connection [via]
- If you sign on to social networks over public WiFi, you might want to check out Firesheep. Then, if you have the patience, you might want to wade into the debate over whether revealing this security hole to the general public does more harm or good.
- And finally, There Will Be Blood for Nintendo.
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Wednesday various
- The A to Z of the Shortest Book Titles [via]
- Internet-to-PeopleWhoAreNotIdiots Dictionary [via]
- Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day [via]
- Hot on the trail of the news that Christopher Columbus was maybe one of the worst people who ever lived, comes news of a planned 300-style Columbus movie. Yay?
- And finally, Overthinking It’s Guide to Strong Female Characters [via]
Monday various
- The Tea Party is a movement without a compass? Who could have guessed?
In an unruly, unpredictable and chaotic election year, no group has asserted its presence and demanded to be heard more forcefully than the tea party. The grass-roots movement that was spawned with a rant has gone on to upend the existing political order, reshaping the debate in Washington, defeating a number of prominent lawmakers and elevating a fresh cast of conservative stars.
But a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process. [via]
- Astronaut Uses Foursquare to Check In To Space Station. Oh noes! Does this mean one of his followers is going to use this opportunity to rob NASA? [via]
- Can we just stop with the Battlestar Galactica spin-offs for a while? Personally, I like what I’ve seen of Caprica — just a handful of episodes, but then, I never did finish watching the original Ron Moore series — but with this new series planned to “take place 10 years into the first Cylon war,” I can’t think of another sci-fi universe that’s been this over-explored. Outside, say, of Dune.
- An angry Leonard Nimoy writes to Gene Roddenberry in 1976. It’s funny, today blooper reels are pretty much par for the course on any television DVD set, but I can see Nimoy’s point.
- And finally, could the world be heading towards a frightful kimchi shortage? [via]
Thursday various
- Okay, this Great Expectations cake might be in slightly bad taste, but it’s still a clever idea. [via]
- Student finds tracking device on his car; FBI demands it back. More here. [via]
- Horrible band causes horrible traffic jam to promote horrible song.
- Clark Kent vs. Facebook [via]
- And finally, some sci-fi LOLcats.
Wednesday various
- Mark Twain didn’t like proofreaders.
- 15 classic science fiction and fantasy novels that publishers rejected. The list may surprise you. [via]
- Living root bridges. Exactly what it says on the tin. [via]
- OK Cupid crunches some numbers on gay vs. straight sex. (SFW) [via]
- And finally, you’ve gotta love Ernest Borgnine At ninety-three:
I’m still learning how to act, for god’s sake.