Kid does own Christmas pageant at home. Forget Spider-Man: Turn Off The Damn Flying Rigs Before Someone Gets Hurt (Again), I'd pay cash money to see this.

The last time I saw a "blood moon" (the part of a partial or total lunar eclipse where the moon is red) was when I was in Memphis, so I thought I might set my alarm so as to see it anew in the new millenium, as it were ( Read more... )

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The above is the punchline to a joke about a wallet made of foreskins, but here's what actually happens to them. Saves lives and makes you pretty--now that's recycling!

He and his wife claim that they're being stalked by a sinister conspiracy called the Star Whackers.

Windowless rooms are safer. No cell phones; they can be tracked from space. Only landlines. They stayed in hotels here at first, keeping on the move, but the hotels began calling each other. Doors were closed to the Quaids. One hotel, a five- ( Read more... )

Via io9, here's a letter from Gene Roddenberry reacting to the rejection of Star Trek's first pilot. (For those of you who aren't that familiar with Star Trek's origins, Roddenberry made a pilot, "The Cage", which was rejected by NBC because it was "too cerebral", among other reasons; they did fund a second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", ( Read more... )

Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young does Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair":( Back and forth )

Here she comes to save the day!

How adorable is this? Part kid, part machine, all cop!

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I remember the print ad that Bill Gates participated in during the introduction of the Macintosh (he and the other two were wearing the same color polo shirts), but I had no idea about this.