Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle were so inspired by this xkcd comic that they set it to music, and they managed to talk a bunch of famous geeks into singing along. Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow (in cape and goggles), Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and loads of others are featured. See Olga’s site…

This ship was the setting for the last seasons of the 80s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Name it! What is the title of a 1966 John Brunner novel about overpopulation? The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go to what planet? Who wrote West of…

YouTube member TheFakingHoaxer specializes in realistic-looking hoax videos of events like the space shuttle encountering UFOs or ghost sightings in the woods. You can see the whole collection of videos on his YouTube channel. (via BoingBoing)

The original. (via I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet)

How to Tell if You’re a Superhero – “For someone with several billion dollars who can sleep with anyone they desire you’re kind of a doleful son of a bitch.” Klingon Fairy Tales – “Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears.” Web Services as Vintage Paperback Covers – These are quirkily…

What SW planet is your local weather most like? Sadly, I may have to climb inside a tauntaun for warmth. (via Cynical-C)

For extra credit, try to get this song out of your head now. (Video courtesy of The Jonathan Coulton Project, dedicated to making music videos out of Coulton’s music.)

15 Weirdest Science Stories of 2009 – Roundup from Discoblog. Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned from Systems Administrators – This makes a lot of sense. Epic Menorah is Epic – It certainly is. Star Wars Status Updates – I especially like the Death Star staff complaining about their boss. Zombocalypse Now – A…

The New England Brewing Company recently reported to Beernews.org that it’s about to ship its Imperial Stout Trooper stout in 750-ml bottles. Shipments will go to CT, MA, RI, NY, and FL, and will be available some time around 12/21. The beer has actually been available seasonally since 2006, although in a 2007 interview the…

ComicsAlliance recently reviewed The Punisher #11, in which The Punisher suffers a messy death and is subsequently turned into FrankCastleStein. A reader replied that this concept was rather too ridiculous for “the core Marvel Universe.” Chris Sims (who also writes the wonderful Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog) responded by listing some of the other things that have…