the Goddamn Batman.

I found this via google image search.


On myconfinedspace.com

If this Vans a rocking, its my wife being drilled by a guy named Ricky

Via BoingBoing.

The Dark Knight 1966 Style

Via YesButNoButYes.

God I love comic books.

So Marvel is putting out a book in their Ultimate Universe called Ultimate Human. I had seen the title somewhere, and didn't think a whole lot of it. I even saw something about a Hulk/Iron Man book coming out, and didn't think much of it. Didn't even realize they were the same book.

Then I heard Warren Ellis is writing it. And now I must read it.

Preview. It looks so sweet. Tony Stark is an asshole, and Bruce Banner is really bummed out about being the Hulk - its totally how it should be.

And its due out this week!

Meth Minute 39

I just discovered Meth Minute 39 today. Only 6 episodes in too. Oh, and its funny.



Via YesButNoButYes.

Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis writes a column on Suicide Girls called the Sunday Hangover. I think the idea is that its supposed to be weekly, but for some reason it doesn't show up on the feed that often. Maybe its behind their subscription wall, maybe he just doesn't do it every week. In any case, I don't care, its just that good.

This week he declares: America broke sex.

He makes a pretty strong case, actually. Its stuff like this that makes me love him.

That and, you know, Fell, Black Summer... I've yet to read Global Frequency, but I've got it at home in my "to read" box.

But its not just his comics. He's funny, smart, and I can't seem to get enough. But yeah.

America broke sex.

Ouch.

from NadShot.

And that is seriously one of my favorite scenes in the latest issue of All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. Its Miller writing Batman, so how can you go wrong?

But seriously, a blog dedicated entirely to comic book characters being hit in the crotch? Wow.

God, its stuff like this that makes me love Boing Boing.

Via Boing Boing.

Scotty

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So. Simon Pegg is going to be playing Scotty in the new Star Trek movie.

Between that and John Cho as Sulu, you'd think they were making a comedy.

Computer Nerdery

So Timmy hooked me up with this old Dell that he picked up. Its a 650mhz, so its not exactly a beast.

But I've got Win98SE running on it (without any of the proper drivers, so there's still some problems) and in the above picture you can see the Xubuntu install running on it.

Win98 is on there so I can play Starship Titanic and RAMA. Who knows what else, but those both have issues running with either WinXP (RAMA) or Wine (both have some issues - some tolerable, some not).

Anyhow, its has a new battery, is 1024x768... I can't complain. Also, maybe it'll be my live music computer. Hydrogen anyone?

MagLev?

So far, I've yet to ride on one, or even see one. So way to go Germany.

Seriously, how is that picture not the coolest looking thing ever? Maybe that's just the Star Trek fan in me, but why would you no want to ride on that?

So I remember that MagLev was the coolest thing ever when I was younger. It was (and still is) really fucking cool. If you don't already know, Wikipedia defines it as:

[quote]
"a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) using electromagnetic force"
[/quote]

I remember thinking that this was going to be the future of like, all transportation. I was a weird kid.

Via Engadget.

Way to go, Riker

And this is why you shouldn't sit on computers:

Amen Brother

So there's a classic breakbeat that we all know whether we realize it or not. It has inundated popular music in such a way that we take it as natural, and don't think about where it came from. As with most of culture, we borrow so heavily from what we know of the past that we don't realize where it came from and what we're actually creating, vs what we're borrowing.

Amen brother is a classic example of this. As this fellow puts it, It has entered "the collective audio unconcious":

Its a bit long, clocking in around 18 minutes, but well worth a listen (there's not actually a lot going on visually in this video).

More about it on the Wikiedia article on Amen Brother.

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

HOLY POOP.

More about Crystal Skulls here

and here:

via Geek Monthly

California

So work sent me to the Society of Environmental Journalists conference at Stanford last week. I recorded some sessions (both audio and video), and generally it was pretty interesting.

Most of Stanford's north campus looks like this around this time of the year.



Northwest lost my luggage when we flew out, and it took a few days to get that sorted out. I had to go shopping and hit the laundromat.

The crosswalk sign was broken by our hotel in Palo Alto, so it was constantly giving us the horns. That, combined with the fact that there was an All Mac and a Fry's across the street were the only things that made the Super 8 where we stayed better than the Sheraton where everyone else was (we were overflow from the conference).

Stanford's tower was right across the street from one of the buildings we had sessions in.

The CalTrain station in Palo Alto. We rode this a lot.

My first experience with Thai beer. It was okay. And so was the Pad Thai.

The Golden Gate from above and to the west. An early stop on the whirlwind tour of the city some of my friends gave me.

GGP from BB (Baker Beach).

My feet met the Pacific for the first time on Baker Beach.

We found Yoda in the Presidio.

At the end of the night, we went up the Twin Peaks for a beautiful view of the city. I'm told its usually a lot foggier, but not Friday night.

RIP, Michael Jackson

Beer legend Michael Jackson is dead.

[quote] He is primarily credited with establishing the language and identification of beer styles. Before Jackson, all beer was essentially the same; today, beer authorities recognize more than 100 major styles, defined by their cultural and technical characteristics...

Many of those styles – especially obscure varieties from Belgium – would be extinct today if not for Jackson's writing...

For thousands of self-professed beer geeks, Jackson was a cult figure who inspired the U.S. microbrewery renaissance. [/quote]

Thanks for the beer, Michael.

Via Beware of the Blog.

Batman!

Everyone who knows me knows how excited I am about this:

The trailer is just okay, but I am more and more excited about the movie every time I think about it. Batman Begins was so well done. It made a blockbuster comic book movie while still getting pretty close to the tone (if not the look, or even really the plot) of one of the classic stories (in this case, the Frank Miller-penned Year One) of that character.

I'm also excited to see the joker done right. Tim Burton's 1989 Batman was good, and Jack Nicholson was great in it, but I think Dark Knight is going to better capture the insanity that really characterizes the Joker in the comics. Or at least I hope.

For how much I love Batman, I'm not that big a fan of the 1960s Adam West TV series. For a lot of people the campyness of it is what makes the show, but I just can't dig it. Then again, I don't like a lot of the older print comics (okay, pretty much all of the '30s-'60s) of Batman either.

In any case, if you've ever wondered what that TV show would have been like had they approached it seriously, without all the camp, the answer is pretty damn good:

Via Geek Monthly.

Science!

I was walking around Old Town Lansing today, and I couldn't pass up this photo op. I have no idea what was behind that door, either. I couldn't see in the door, and the place wasnt open.

Holy sweet goddamn.

Its too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

Via YesButNoButYes.

But Ronnie? Ronnie the Bear? He could give a fuck.

So I have the first Harry Potter movie coming next in my NetFlix queue for one reason and one reason only. Wizard People, Dear Reader. Its on Illegal Art, which is the same label that put out the most recent Girl Talk (yes, he's done more than just Night Ripper) record.

WPDR is a spoken word project, meant to be played along with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The author/reader, Brad Neely, spends most of the movie telling you what's happening, like a book on tape gone horribly wrong. Harry is "Ol' HP", Snape is "Snake" (and also a she), Ron is "Ronnie the Bear", Dumbledore is "Dumbledore the Half-Dead", and Hagrid is "Hagar the Horrible". Needless to say, he gets a lot of plot points wrong too, but you're too busy laughing to care.

Point in case:

I'm totally having people over to watch it sometime soon. Needless to say, there will be beer and Wizard People, Dear Readers!

Death and hatred to mankind never sounded so good.

So, as I mentioned here, CAKE has a rarities disc coming out later this year. Their cover of War Pigs is amazing.

APPRAENTLY, they're having a music video contest - ie you make your video, put it on YouTube, they pick a winner, etc. I have no idea what you can win. WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THEY'RE OFFERING THE ENTIRE SONG FOR DOWNLOAD NOW. Check it.

Godddamn its SO GOOD.

And since I think the mp3 will only be up for a couple more days, I'm mirroring it myself.
CAKE - War Pigs (mp3). (LINK REMOVED)