Bookmark this. Whenever you are frustrated and need to let off steam, go here. Thanks to Chuck Dixon and Tony Bedard for the link.

This Flash animation of Angry White Boy Polka is such a huge file that it actually took about four minutes to load on my cable modem. No wonder! Most Flash animation consists of a couple images doing the same repetitive animation for the entire song. This…well, this is way more involved than anything with Flash…

Parents of ‘Weird Al’ Found Dead in their home due to carbon monoxide poisoning. This is awful news. Weird Al is one of my favorite people and I’d like to publicly extend my thoughts and prayers his way. There has not been any statement by Al yet. He is due to perform at a concert…

When I was passing along the links to articles about Mars exploration, I meant to include Dr. Buzz Aldrin’s “cyclers” proposal. All I knew about Buzz Aldrin was that he was the second man on the moon and he was once on the Simpsons. I didn’t know that he was a doctor, a designer, a…

While I dig around for some comic book news, entertain yourselves with The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army

Now, this is smart. We’re exploring Mars. We’re talking about going to Mars. We’re debating what to do with the space program. And finally, someone thinks to do An Interview With Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury. Brilliant! Bradbury laments that we have let 30 years go by just making orbital runs in the shuttle instead of…

It’s been ages since I posted something truly off-topic, and this story is just too cool to leave alone. Last year, there was the sad but marvelous story of a group of desperate Cubans trying to make it to America in a floating truck. Unfortunately, the Coast Guard had to return them to Cuba, and…

On my three hour drive back from my parents’ house tonight, I listened to the last six episodes of the Stan Freberg Show on CD. I haven’t dug these out in a while, so I was able to enjoy a number of skits and songs that had blessedly passed from my pop culture steel-trap memory.…

Back in the 1980s, I thought of the Vietnam war as something that had happened long before I was born, so all those Rambo movies seemed a bit out of place. Obviously, only 10 years had passed since its conclusion, but I was born in 1970 and it was over before I was ever aware…

I don’t think that this really qualifies for the off-topic category because few things are enjoyed by the well-educated geek more than the music of P.D.Q. Bach…recovered for the modern age by musicolologist Professor Pete Schickele. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of taking a class with Schickele, and I even managed to catch a performance…