I know like, Twelve Chords.

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Does anyone out there really want to watch me try to describe a plot? What are you people, sadists?
-Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post

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If you don't get it, I don't think I can explain it to you.
-Mark Bell, Film Threat

Ok, in the comments section of this post I discovered a pun of truly epic proportions. This was after a mention of Descartes. For those of you who are as retarded at French names as I, remember that Descartes is pronounced "Day-Cart".
I can't resist. Kimball is putting Descartes before de horse.
My only regret in finding this pun is that I know I ( Read more... )

You all need to buy this comic!

A new cellphone, The Prestige, and Children of Men.  So far, so good!

Yet another unintentionally hilarious comic book cover.

Hat tip: Cory Doctorow

This is more of my kind of story.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.

Several of Librescu' ( Read more... )

Well, my prediction that fewer than 20 people will end up being confirmed dead at V Tech has already been shot down.

Now I'm just going to have to put up with people getting their empathy all over me.

Innocent people getting killed is always a tragedy.  Innocent people getting killed in a manner that is either geographically closer to me than normal ( Read more... )