CNN reviews a raft of upcoming movies based on comic books and graphic novels. All indications are that Alan Moore no longer has anything to do with film adaptations, and has severed ties with DC because of their inability to maintain that separation.

Somebody left a sample of Magnecote on my desk. It reads "I [heart] librarians" and has this URL on it. The target requires flash, and seems to respond randomly, so it’s not quite Subservient Chicken, but it’s somewhat entertaining.

A lovely photoshop Tell-Tale.

Time for the occasional acknowledgment that the administration has brought new levels of shame to the White House.

The apparently lovely and talented Heather B. Armstrong has a post that made blogdex today.
The rest of her site seems pleasing to me, too. Her monthly newsletters (well, the one I read) remind me of the best parts of Irony Central’s Story about the Baby.

Neat! Alberta history available to all– digitized newspapers, airphotos, and more. They say they are renovating, so I hope this means more to come.

Everybody loves Carny Lingo!

94 year old Red Cross volunteer and WWII ambulance driver, Marilyn Benemen, walked down to the hospital to help out those injured in the recent London bombing:
“Oh, when you’re Red Cross, you’re expected to do it. Oh, yes, if you’re in walking distance, I think you should turn up. And long as you can just soothe people down and an extra cup of tea, a spot of tea, yes–it’s a wicked, wicked thing, though. You say, `Well, the world’s got to go on. Everything’s got to go on. You can’t give in to these things.’ And so one presses on.”

Who’d have thunk it?

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.

The CDC has a Public Health Image Library (it was mentioned in some of the flu coverage that Craig linked to), and if they have to warn you about the content, you know it’s good!