I wish I could do better..

If the whole of Australia has to catch on fire for pictures this cute to be taken, so be it.

I don't want to look at any pictures now that are purporting to be cute unless they are framed within the context of Australia being on fire.

I just assumed..

"I'll buy almost anything as long as it's shiny and made by Apple."

You shouldn't be exerting yourself like that..

The Federal Drug Administration has approved the first human trials of embryonic stem cells — a sign of a new, liberal attitude toward stem cell research, which was hamstrung by the Bush administration.
More via Wired.

All I thought I wanted..

In case you didn't already know, Eddie Izzard is 100% class act.

The world is unfair..

If you do something..

PC World brings us this fun little list of things. Things!

Now go do that voodoo..

Harvey Korman has passed away.
My earliest exposure to Harvey Korman was on reruns of The Carol Burnett Show when I was a little kid, and then as The Great Gazoo on The Flinstones.
However, like a lot of people who remember him, I'll probably always remember him best from Blazing Saddles.
I don't know why, but my favorite line of his was, "How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?"

He was in the habit..

This is pretty awesome.

After all these years..

Are you fucking kidding me?

Then there's the solo...

Three companies are trying to make a plane for the government that can stay in the air for 5 years at a time.
Apparently this is one of the possible "planes".
I mean.. you explain it to me.

And they think it's pretty cool, man..

Know what else is weird looking?
Safari on Windows.

Good news, everyone!

Everyone over to Destination : Blog! on the double for the exciting news!

It's so enlightened of you..

The Dick Tracy Museum is closing due to lack of visitors.

That is really depressing to me.

Anyone interested in a roadtrip to Woodstock, Illinois?

Via Newsarama.

Plans to break away..

Nicholas Gurewitch is semi-retiring The Perry Bible Fellowship.

The recently announced and now open for business Destination : Blog! is moving right along, footloose and fancy free. Feel free to join in on the fun with us.

At a dinner engagement recently, a Catwoman was requested of me.

I was happy to oblige.

Can't you see my world is fallin' apart?

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think this looks awesome.

And the plans that accompany it?

Also awesome.

To me.

I'm just one dude though.

One dude who says "awesome" more than most.

The way I danced with you..

Peter Jackson will be executive producing two films based on The Hobbit for New Line and MGM.
Thoughts?

Also, a "death star galaxy" has been discovered.

You don't need to see my credentials.

Man, forget DC bringing back (and subsequently screwing up) the multiverse, this guy is trying to prove that it really exists!

From a CNN.com story on Geniuses Who Will Change Your Life :
Nima Arkani-Hamed thinks big. He has a theory that our universe is one of an infinite number of universes -- meaning the largest thing we can wrap our minds around is actually pretty tiny
He didn't pull the "multiverse" out of thin air, though. After becoming a Harvard professor at age 30, Arkani-Hamed first made a name for himself by suggesting that our universe is five-dimensional. Then he moved on to the multiverse, theorizing that our own universe has a hidden feature called "split supersymmetry," which means that half of all particles have partner particles.

The theory will be tested soon in Switzerland's brand-new Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and if the LHC finds Arkani-Hamed's partner particles, it could prove that the multiverse is real -- and that our place in it is that much smaller.

Are you fucking kidding me?!
This has got to be one of the most exciting scientific news things I've ever heard.
Of course, that means it also has the potential to be the most terrifying.

For no reason other than the tenuous DC/multiverse connection, here is a picture of a young Superman (we can't call him that other name any more) I did a while back and never got around to putting up here.
It's different. Feel free to let me know what you think.

In the news...

Does this make anyone else crazy?
I mean, is it just me?
I'm not saying that what this guy did necessarily did or didn't deserve a lengthy penetentiary vacation, I'm just saying can't someone call fucking "shenanigans" on the Dubya yet?
I mean, come on.

Sorry, I'll try to get back to talking about comics shortly.

UPDATE
Jon Morris has a great post about it up as well.