I don't know how I lived before discovering io9.  That site is my crack.  And this article, from the title to the comments, is so full of win I can hardly stand it.  First, a clip of Peter Davison doing panto with his first wife back in the day.  Then, in the comments, John Barrowman singing about needing the Doctor.  I was giggling so hard that I  ( Read more... )

This xkcd comic is cruel.  Amusing, but in a sad/funny way.  Also, pretty art.

And who the hell led it to believe it was ever going home?  That's bad science as well as mean.

"Grad School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go."

Oh.  Um...shit.  Not that I'm looking to teach or even go all the way to a PhD, but...erk. 

They were all WTFomgbbq about End of Time Part 1, too.  Literally.  It's in the title.  And it is a beautiful reviewnalysis (yes, that is my very own portmanteau I just made up there) that perfectly summarizes my feelings about Part 1.  I'd consider it an uncanny and paranoia-inducing bit of mind reading except that in this case I think it's ( Read more... )

And by "awesome" I mean "campy and terribly, terribly funny.  Cuz' that they're terrible."

I'm generally a Failosaurus when it comes to Christmastime.  I don't ever have my act together enough to do cards for the masses, and I'm usually cutting it close to even get gifts for my immediate family.  But I like to try and be generous and show my ( Read more... )

There are a couple of popular statistical misconceptions that really bug me, and human life expectancy is one of them.

" the inclusion of infant mortality rates in calculating life expectancy creates the mistaken impression that earlier generations died at a young age; Americans were not dying en masse at the age of 46 in 1907. The fact is that ( Read more... )

I was born in 1984, at the pinnacle of Michael Jackson's career.  Growing up in a Christian household sans cable T.V., I nonetheless remember Michael Jackson being a somewhat ubiquitous presence in life.  I had no clue about his music, but I knew who he was and why he was famous, even if I personally couldn't understand the appeal.  He was a fact ( Read more... )

First of all, here's a KFC commercial that boggled my mind a bit:

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Secondly, I wonder what the hold-up is on releasing "Blood and Fire: Part II"?  The first part came out around Christmas, and now here it is May.  They're continuing to do principle photography for other episodes (they're currently working on the eighth episode, "Kitumba"), but there' ( Read more... )

And it is still entertaining as hell.  I remain dissatisfied with Spock, and yes, the villain is a cardboard character, and yes, Black Holes Don't Work That Way, and of course it's completely ridiculous that Kirk would advance up the ranks that fast, but it's still funny, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk are dead-on perfect, Leonard Nimoy is 100% pure ( Read more... )

1.  This blog post that provides "uncomfortable summaries" for various popular movies and TV shows.

My favorites from the list are:

• BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
• MR BEAN: Austistic loner finds every day a struggle, to his sadness and frustration.
• KING KONG: Endangered animal stolen, shot.
• TORCHWOOD: Bisexual is ( Read more... )