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NASA Humor
As is common for NASA missions these days, the LCROSS satellite broadcast a live Twitter feed as it headed toward the Moon. It makes me deeply, viscerally happy to report that just before it smacked into the lunar surface its last tweets were the whale bit from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Wow, 150km…
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Useless Superpowers
(From Once Upon a Geek via Geek Orthodox)
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Hey There Cthulhu
Just try to get this song out of your head. Just try. Also, there’s a CD available. Heh. (via Cynical-C) (Cross-posted at The Art of Darkness)
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In a Cauldron Far, Far Away
From Para Abnormal. (I liked this one, too.)
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Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager
I’m not sure how these escaped my notice until now, but there’s a whole series of short videos featuring Darth Vader’s younger brother Chad, who’s a day shift manager of a grocery store. Episode 1 is below. The rest are available on Chad’s YouTube Channel. (Also I’m not sure why I’ve suddenly got a Star…
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Star Non-Violent Resistance
Star Wars as environmentalist manifesto, using eco-tourism to establish independence from the Empire. I’m really enormously taken with the idea of Darth Vader having to file environmental impact statements. (via BoingBoing)
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I Love xkcd
Randall has tackled the age-old Urinal Protocol problem by expressing it as an equation that will allow men* to efficiently choose the least awkward urinal. The comments are even better, in that readers consider different permutations of the problem (for a large number of urinals, for instance, urinal choice is most likely a Gaussian probability…
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Uncannily Accurate
Click over to AmazingSuperPowers for the rest of the strip. (via @SFSignal)
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Talk Like Warren Ellis
The other day I was telling Shadow about some of the people I follow on Twitter. I mentioned that one of them was Warren Ellis, and he asked me why I followed him. Because here is an example of one of his recent tweets: Good morning, fluorescent sex weasels of the internet. It’s a new…
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The Bloggess vs. William Shatner
It all started when Jenny the Bloggess (whose head has been featured on BoingBoing and who routinely makes me shoot coffee out my nose anyway [“I’m going to read the Bloggess. Where’s the tarp?”]) sent a series of possibly-drunken tweets to William Shatner, to wit: Okay, don’t ask why but I need to get William…