Anglo-Saxon hoard found! This is just so very awesome. Look at the craftmanship (related article here).

And the BBC has a cool site showing what the particular pieces may be from a warrior's armor.

Just...the details and the metalwork are just amlkdlmk; *_____* And the questions this discovery raises omggg you guys I just want to do this for a ( Read more... )

On the last episode of "A Walk Down Memory Lane"...

Zak: No, no. Cool means hot.
Crysta: What?
Zak: Yeah. Y'know, bodacious, bad, tubular.
Batty: Awesome use of the language, dude.

( Great, I've been shrunk by an amateur! I don't believe this! Okay, bash away. )

Welcome to the middle of Banned Books Week! Found this quote from here on the week that I thought was really interesting:

Banned Books Week is really about two different, but related, things. The first of these, the focus of sites like Amnesty’s and the “Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities” section of my exhibit, deals with attempts to ( Read more... )

Glimpses into the movie Coraline. Stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick, They Might Be Giants contributing songs, based off of Neil Gaiman's book? What's not to like? *_____* I think it looks pretty good so far, the bits they have in the trailers. I haven't read Coraline in a while. Looks like I'll be digging for that book soon, too ( Read more... )

It's Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day!

Don't ye know how to talk pirate, yeh scum? This'll learn you!

Ye won't be inspirin' no fear with a name like yers.
Ye need a new one if ye're to be a pirate! Or if you be feelin' in need of another i-dent-i-ty, get a second name and confuse them blasted Marines.

My pirate name is:

Bloody Charity ( Read more... )