Links and Stuff

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #158: Neil Gaiman, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore. Yea, seven items instead of the usual three.

Man, I've always wanted to read Prince Valiant from the start, and now Fantagraphics is reprinting them. Maybe I should start requesting them from the library to make sure my library system buys them.

Cheyenne is back.

Take a look at 10 Star Wars posters from Japan. There are some visual treats in there, along with a couple of "What were they thinking?"

I don't care if people are sick of steampunk, I love the steampunk Dalek.

If you didn't catch all the internet references in Weezer's Pork and Beans video, the wikipedia article for the song now lists them, along with handy links to most of them so you can check out the originals.

Here's an amusing and short story. Very short.

Belief in the moon landing: how education can rid children of stupid anti-science views.

This is almost enough to make me eat at McDonalds. Almost.

Fox "News" equals gullible. Seriously, if they can't even do basic fact-checking, they don't deserve to call themselves a news channel. Only an entertainment channel would run a story as poorly-sourced as that one.

McCain would continue Bush's illegal wiretapping of US citizens.

Hey, there's a restaurant I won't go to, if only because the owner has to be a moron for not praising the employee and letting all his customers know about the wonderful thing she'd done for charity.

Guy pretends to be a Seattle Sonic. WHY? Eh, he can't be much worse at the game than the current players.

I really should collect all the examples of LOLCats theology.

Pug for the in-laws.

And lastly, if you have a few bucks and want to fight breast cancer, please donate to support us in the Race for the Cure: Laura Gjovaag, Eric Gjovaag, or Lisa Dunham (my suggested donation is $5 to each of us, if you have $15 to spare, or $5 to one of us (flip a 3-sided coin) if you're poor like me).

Lunks and Dimps

I gotta get this.

I've always liked Vikings (I married a nice Norwegian-named boy, even), so I gotta get this.

Waiting Room. I've often thought that a good way to build audiences for comic books would be to get comics into waiting rooms, where people would certainly like something other than a typical magazine to look at. If I were rich, I'd start a waiting room project in a test market, just to see if it really does help sales/readership. But then, I'm nutso like that.

Death Note inspires kids to write names in their own Notebooks. In Death Note, the hero/villian of the story writes names in a notebook and the people whose names he writes die. I could see how kids copying that would be disturbing.

Wil Wheaton in Dork Tower #36.

Breakfast of the Gods. A webcomic with a familiar cast.

I stopped reading B.C. when it stopped being funny many years ago, but I loved the strip as a kid. Rest in Peace, Johnny Hart.

Seattle Weekly on Ellison/Fantagraphics. *sigh*. I just want it to end.

Hrm. No Carl's Jr around here, but I want the card game. Hrm.

Virginia Hey has a new acting role. She retired when she came to the United States... but... go read her entry about it.

Hubby-Eric and I watched "Thank God You're Here" and I found the improv to be non-improv-y... and Wil Wheaton explains exactly what the problem was. Thank you, Wil, for putting it into words.

I love this, three Washington state towns on the top 10 list of towns that pre-ordered Harry Potter.

Figuring out why dogs vary in size. The genetic studies could help humans some day, too.

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database project makes it easier to discover if a book is under copyright. Go Check It Out!

Saturn is turning.

Sitemeter has gone spyware. A lot of folks use Sitemeter for counting hits on their websites... but apparently it's started doing more than just counting hits.

Don't Fly Without A Copy of Rule 240.

Don't Hotlink, follow Wil's advice and use ImgRed.com instead!

Laptop Battery Hack.

Cute Link: When out of tissues, a cat is fine too.

Linkdump

Johnny B's NFL Picks.

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #76. It keeps going... and going... and going...

Ten of a Kind in honor of James Bond.

Hmmm, do I want to go to the Grand Opening of Fantagraphics Bookstore. Hmmm. Not too far away, but a pain to drive to. I'll have to ponder this one.

Aaron Williams has good links.

Wooden planes.

The Internet's Funniest Images.

I'm in ur base... Having played Command and Conquer, and gotten pwned like this, I totally understand the meme.

Emerald City Comicon is shaping up to be a really good one this year. Yes, unless some disaster strikes my life, I will be there.