Random Thoughts

In case you haven't noticed, the comic strip Betty is about comic books this week. Monday's strip was about comic book movies and the current price of comics. Tuesday's strip was about the selection. Wednesday's strip continues the myth that comics are for guys. Let's see if the rest of the week is any better.

Newsarama reports that comic book artist Bryan Hitch will be working on designs for the new Doctor Who TV series. Via Fanboy Rampage.

Comic book writers, and those interested in the process of writing comics, should visit Scryptic Studios, a new site launched by various folks including the Blogosphere's own Kevin Melrose.

An Alaskan earthquake affected Yellowstone geysers. Pretty cool cause and effect. I love geology.

A woman on the monorail describes the explosion and rescue to the Seattle Times. I'm particularly amazed by how calm everyone remained. A quote from the story: My daughter looked up at me from the two hospital beds that they had pushed together so that I would lay between the kids, and told me, "Mommy, there was a witch on the train." She remembered the black smoke she saw when the Wicked Witch of the West melted on "The Wizard of Oz."

Amy Langfield points out that George Washington wasn't the first President, just the first one under our current Constitution. Follow her links, there's some interesting history there.

Kevin Drum attempts to quell panic about the draft by pointing out the obvious. If you read the comments to the notes, some folks seem to disagree with him.

I got hubby-Eric a Politics Free Zone T-Shirt. It turned out quite nice, and hopefully will help him avoid political discussions he hates during this nasty election year.

It's reported that The Memory Hole is being banned by the military. From the message soldiers get, raw documents created by the government, military, and corporations... apparently amount to "political extremism." Nice. People have already come up with ways around the censorship.