- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel beat Avatar in this Wednesday’s box office. That can’t be good. [via]
- George over at Bookninja thinks this is some kind of horrible abomination, but I think this Soft Morphing Blob ‘Bot is actually sort of cool.
- I find it difficult to believe that a version of Lord of the Rings from the orcs’ perspective hasn’t already been written.
- ZombieHarmony — “One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies.” (One of?) [via]
- And finally, Jacob Bronowski and The Ascent of Man [via]:
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Thursday various
- Over at Small Beer Press, “$1 from every book (or ebook, zine, subscription, etc.)sold from now until December 31, 2009, will be donated to Franciscan Children’s Hospital.” Those are some terrific books (or ebooks, zines, subscriptions, etc.) for a really worthwhile cause. More details here.
- Mark Bittman asks: Could Industrially Raised Meat Be Illegal?
- Some of these minimalist TV posters are more clever than others, but a small few are actually kind of inspired. Provided, I guess, you know the shows in question. [via]
- Ladies and gentlemen, the happiness hat [via]
- And finally, because I can’t possibly top this: “A Chinese man who trained monkeys martial arts to entertain shoppers was shocked when they turned the tables on him.”
Monday various
- Walk the ancient streets of Pompeii with Google Maps.
- Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers’ Heads by 2020. Well of course they do. [via]
- “People with sharper senses of smell really have a nose for relating to others’ emotions, new research suggests. [via]
- Empty L.A. They’re impressive images, though I’ll admit I’m not familiar enough with Los Angeles to know how crowded these locations are normally. [via]
- And finally, 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. [via]
Tuesday various
- Kurt Busiek: “[L]et’s face it, you never know when someone Peter Parker went to high school with is going to turn into a super-villain.”
- “The gold-coloured convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia’s roads — not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek’s outlandish claim that it can be operated telepathically.” Okaaaaayyy…
- Patrick Stewart on the legacy of domestic violence. [via]
- What if you went in search of your birth parents and one of them turned out to be Charles Manson?
- And finally, Toyota develops its own flower species. [via]
That’s one way of putting it
Star Trek has as much to so with plausibly extrapolated science as The A-Team has to do with a realistic look at the lives of military veterans.