Joss stopped by Whedonesque a while back to talk about a Buffy/Angel comic (that will be part of the Buffyverse canon) and other stuff that may be of interest.

Check me out! I’m inspiring art! A booktalk I gave was the inspiration for a Sunday strip of Unshelved! I highly recommend the book, and Junior High students are verrrrry interested in the most dangerous toy, that put 6,000 people into the emergency room before they finally banned it.

Answer in invisi-text (highlight to see): “Jarts. Adults in the 60s honestly didn’t care if you got a spike through the head.“

UFOs in the sky over Richland, WA, in 1947, though one article points out the frequency of all sorts of stuff zinging through the air on the high winds.

The Improved Man, written in 1890, has some interesting ideas and turns of phrase. And, yes, the brain is the real cathedral, but I enjoy envisoning a grey squishy Chartres.

Top excuses to not have to go to sleep right now:
I’m thirsty.
What happens after we die?
Will you sit with me? You never sit with me.
I’m too hot.
I’m too cold.
I miss (whoever is not here at the moment).
I’m not tired (while rubbing eyes)

Starting 1 January 2006, the IMEX catalog will be available only on the web.

From American National Biography Online’s biography of Ben Hecht:
“In 1910 he moved to Chicago and began working as a picture stealer (purloining victims’ pictures from family homes for use in the newspaper) and factotum for the Chicago Journal.”

The last Doctor Who spin-off doesn’t seem to have made it past the pilot (though we still love Sarah Jane and K-9), but Torchwood is heading a different direction altogether, and has a 13-episode series ordered.

James Bond’s employer, the Secret Intelligence Service (a/k/a MI6) has joined other formerly unacknowledged organizations in going public on the web. Their web tree structure interests me: on the one hand, having no hierarchy to your web site does make it easier to avoid giving anything away about your organization’s hierarchy; but if you’re going to go that far, why not just have entirely random page file names instead of "PageXX"?

Hey, is that the Doctor or the Second Coming?