I'm sure most of you have heard about Disney buying Marvel. A big long summary can be found here at Deadline, and it's been updated every time more information has come out, so start from the bottom if you want the chronological developments. It's rather comprehensive and brings up a lot of good points.

An interview with Joe Quesada discussing the ( Read more... )

A science group on Long Island wants to turn the 16-acre site into a Tesla museum and education center, and hopes to get the land donated to that end. But the owner, the Agfa Corporation, says it must sell the property to raise money in hard economic times. The company’s real estate broker says the land, listed at $1.6 million, can “be delivered ( Read more... )

This was moving.

Starkey claims: "One of the great problems has been that Henry, in a sense, has been absorbed by his wives. Which is bizarre. But it's what you expect from feminised history, the fact that so many of the writers who write about this are women and so much of their audience is a female audience. Unhappy marriages are big box office. ( Read more... )

This makes me feel really sick.

A woman accused of animal cruelty for piercing the ears of kittens, cutting off their tails, and marketing them as gothic will face the charges in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

The #3 most emailed article on The New York Times website is "You Try to Live on 500K in This Town." "This Town" refers to Manhattan. I wonder if people are emailing it to others because they empathize or out of schaudenfraude or just plain mocking. Obama has set the maximum salary for banking executives who accepted government bailout money at $ ( Read more... )

Certainly, I loved novels and poems before I went to college. But only there was I struck by the lightening of how special it would be to devote myself, that literature was a cause, an end in itself, almost a blessing. That was communicated to me by the professors who taught. And what mattered was their attitude, not the particular curriculum of ( Read more... )

In a card to be sent to family, friends and the Browns, Mr and Mrs Blair are photographed in front of a set of imposing oak bookshelves in a pose which, in addition to their expensively relaxed fashion choices, shows a dazzling and perhaps suspiciously regular dentistry. (Further inquiries suggest that, this yuletide, the Middle East envoy's lower ( Read more... )

Colbert Report November 11, 2008: Proposition 8 Protests - Dan Savage

Colbert: Meanwhile, the California gay-stapo spent Sunday protesting Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage. One of the biggest protests took place at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Now, Warren has been one of the loudest proponents of gay ( Read more... )

The postmillennial version of a Leather­man is the Apple iPhone. Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman. It makes up for this with its cannibal appetite for other tools.
Self-Reliance 2008 by Bruce Sterling

8. Make sure you pack a snack (like a juice box and cookies) ( Read more... )

The Poetry of Sarah Palin: Recent Works by the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

"Outside"
I am a Washington outsider.
I mean,
Look at where you are.
I'm a Washington outsider.

I do not have those allegiances
To the power brokers,
To the lobbyists.
We need someone like that.

(To C. Gibson, ABC News, Sept. 11, 2008)

Man decorates basement with $10 ( Read more... )