Just Imagine Stan Lee Writing The Watchmen
Sweet sassy molassy! What if Stan Lee had written The Watchmen instead of Alan Moore? It would have been sassier! Slangy-er! And America might well be experiencing an exclamation point shortage!
Wes Phillips
Final Fantasy Does Thriller
A mashup mixing the game with (I guess) the epic video. Somebody has waay too much time on their hands.
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The Magnificent Eleven
The story behind the D-Day photographs of Robert Capa.
Geetars and Ook-uh-laylees
Okay article, but it has a fabulous photograph of Ronnie Wood accompanying his grandmother.
Hard-Wired For Music?
Scientists agree that humans are stimulated by music in the same ways as we are by sex and food. So now for the big question: How come?
The Planning of the Apes
Great article on ape cognition, but even if it wasn't, how could I resist a title like that?
Hitler Was Funny Before Mel Brooks
Of course he was. Humor is how people cope with horror.
Goshdarnit!
Says Huckleberry: "I don't care what the ASPCA says, I am not diurnal—and even if I were, I definitely wouldn't be a morning kitty!"
That Boy's Just Not Right!
Bagheera, gazing down on Huckleberry, can't believe he's too lazy to wake up for breakfast (and she's the svelte one).
Gödel & the Limits of Logic
Nice essay on Gödel's place in mathematical logic.