Linkdump Long Overdue

It's Star Wars Day for Katie.

How to Open a New Book.

Paging The Physician...

Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk, and why it covered such a small area.

Ancient Giant Penguin. Cool. Of course, little penguins can be daring, too.

Some of the most memorable Google Doodles.

Organ Donation.

2,000 Ping Pong Balls and 30 Middle-School Teachers in Zero G.

Evolution.

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving. I Made Food! I'm Magical!

The Real Rules of the Blue Moon.

A victim of the overblown hype about Wikileaks posts to reddit.

Creepy Photos at the Tower of London.

If you plan on buying the Girl Genius Novel from Amazon, consider buying it on January 12th, Kaja Foglio's birthday. I would, but I haven't got any money for it.

Another, better, use for tobacco?

I am so far behind on these...

• Comic Book Legends Revealed #276: Thimble Theater, Shadow Lass, and Superman.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #277: Hobgoblin, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Censored Get Fuzzy.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #278: Daily Planet Building, Carl Barks' First Duck Tale, and DC's first Graphic Novel.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #279: The Batcave, Wally Lombego, and Xanshi's destruction.
• The Dreams of Wally Lombego, a supplement from J.M. DeMatteis.
• Star Wars Again, the final page unaltered.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #280: Crossover in Rutland, Gyro Gearloose, and The Squadron Sinister.
• Comic Book Legends Addendum: Leagion and Star Wars stuff.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #281: Marvel G.I. Joe comic book, The Archies, and Mister Nobody.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #282: Fallen Angels, Translated Dan Dare, and Re-Drawn Superman.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #283: Chuck Dixon's Plans, Squirrel Girl, and Woodcut Etrigan.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #284: New Mutants Profanity, Flex Mentallo, and Dick Sprang.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #285: Nudity in the Daily Mirror, Steve Englehart's Farewell to Marvel, and Harlan Ellison badmouthing Michael Fleisher about Spectre.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #286: Captain Marvel Trademark, Censored Carl Barks, and Robin's Creation.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #287: The Marvel Ethnic Slur, Captain Shazam, and Atlas/Marvel Comics problems.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #288: Neil Gaiman Superman/Green Lantern Project, Frank Frazetta's Career, and Wonder Woman's Twirling Lasso.
• Comic Book Legends Revealed #288: Felix the Cat, Wonder Woman TV Series, and The Marvelous Wizard of Oz (with a surprise shout out to my husband's Wizard of Oz site).

I think I'm caught up. Whew. How long has it been since I've done a proper linkdump?

Pug puppy for the in-laws