XKCD explains what it's like to be a former Doctor Who companion.

Superboy Comics. "Clearly, no two days in Smallville are alike."

One day I want to go to Resolute.

Much of the classic September 2001 The Onion - Attack on America issue has been preserved at the Wayback Machine. "Hugging Up 76,000 Percent". (I do wish the images had also survived, though!)

Public toilet finder for the US.

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Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe

Letting Words Do Their Work: Why the care of language is more important than ever.

WORDCOUNT

The other writing secrets. If nothing else, read James Moran's four words of crucial advice.

Ben Aaronovitch quotes a terribly funny effort by Robert Sheckley to covercome writer's block.

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Via fritters: cat shower. Wet head! Towel off, eh.

silverblue tweeted: Nuns on counseling condom use and AIDs prevention in PNG: "We are getting very old and hard of hearing, and Rome is a long way away."

Via qthewetsprocket: A FREAKING ENORMOUS SPIDER and many amusing responses thereunto. Don't click if you know it'll freak you out! (Oops - you need to join whatwasthatone to see it ( Read more... )

Literary cat makes library visits

Cat recruited to patrol station

Tom Gauld toons for the Guardian Saturday Review letters page

It's a Small Word: newspaper corrections ("Norma Adams-Wade’s June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite.") From the same Columbia Journalism Review Column: The Wrath of ( Read more... )

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In the past week we've seen the new Trek and the Wolverine flick and I've enjoyed them both: well-made, well-acted movies with plenty of pace and laughs. And yet I find myself oddly unmoved by either of them. ( SPOILERS for both films )

5 Superpowers From the Bible That Put Marvel and DC to Shame. "Jesus told them they were faithless wusses and the disciples shut up. If that wasn't cool enough, he chewed out the storm, and it shut up, too. That has to be our favorite part, how he's just annoyed by the whole thing, as if being bothered to stop an entire weather systems was ( Read more... )

Turns out boys are not better than girls at maths and science. Hooda thunkit?

Hulk vs. Valkyrie! "Every male chauvinist pig in the world will tremble!"

Down Under

Australian women still face sex bias, including high levels of outright sexual harassment. A national plan means to tackle that, plus "Boosting women's retirement savings, encouraging ( Read more... )

Iron Man brought the lulz. Also squee. ( SPOILERS obvs )