"Oooh, Pizza! What group is this again?"

"Campus Crusade for Cthulu!"

"Oh, crap!."

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Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?

Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together—mass hysteria.

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Time lists their choices of the best 25 horror films. A pretty good list, if somewhat top-heavy in the newer gore-splattered films. They miss my favorite, the original filmed version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, known only as The Haunting.

I'm talking about the original one here. Black-and-white. Almost no special effects, unless you count some nice camera angles and such. No blood. No gore. No visible monsters. Nothing that litters today's horror films.

But I dare you to watch this movie. At night. Alone. In a storm. I dare you. I double-dog-dare you!

Just don't bother with the utterly insipid remake. Please.

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T.S. Eliot's Wasteland...done in LOLCat style.

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I look at the Airstream website now and again. Maybe when I win the lottery! Today I noticed that they have an "official coffee". Hmmm...a Kona blend. No Blue Mountain blend, though. Espresso, check!

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A few random bits from my morning reading.

John Scalzi comes across what might be his favorite negative review of Old Man's War.

A biopic on Philip K. Dick...not!

My favorite Brother Astronomer has a new book out! more...

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A Texan's view of the US. From Strange Maps, where you can see Europe after WWII, the signs of the end times, and much more!

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An online game based on the worlds of Honor Harrington? Will I finally have to get broadband?

Launch is a bit off, so in the meantime, I suggest you pick up the board game from Ad Astra. Nifty miniatures!!!

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I open up today's The New York Times and find a big article on adding a home observatory to your house. Geekdom spreads!

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We've been invaded by Moties! On the way in to work I saw a woman who was smoking a cigarette, talking on her cellphone, drinking a cup of coffee and driving the car. All at the same time. How many hands would that be?

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Latest in a series of overpriced items. How about $150,000 for a stereo? From Steinway (as in pianos)?

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Just a friendly reminder to dust off that stuffed parrot tomorrow. more...

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Well, maybe not best ever, but up there. If you're going to try to spam me by claiming that my PayPal account has been accessed by unauthorized users, maybe you should use a spoof address that appears to be from PayPal? And not, say, from the Internal Revenue Service?

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Via BoingBoing, Lego projects that will bring back memories of the oft-repeated phrase...You'll put your eye out!

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Via BoingBoing, not quite worksafe flowcharts. But ones that probably best describe your day-to-day crisis management...

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You can build anything with Lego! Feeling some pain in your chest?

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A medly of Pooh-ish whimsy in multiple literary genres. My favorite?

Pooh paced the deck, hands clasped behind his back. "Rabbit! Where's that blasted honey?"

Rabbit's whiskered face appeared in an instant, delivered the unwelcome verdict "Which it's already gone!" and disappeared again, leaving behind only muttering concerning something of a very little brain—fortunately at a low enough volume that Pooh could pretend to not have heard. Indeed, Pooh looked down and saw the honey pot was indeed there and empty. "Bother."

A sudden decision, and he swung his rather round and soft body into the shrouds and climbed to the crow's nest. There, he took out his glass and surveyed the horizon. Was that a sail? A sail that might be attached to a French merchant vessel, its hold stuffed full of honey? The crew hadn't had a real prize in months and Pooh's fortune at home could desperately use such a stroke of good fortune.

"Tigger!" he bellowed to the deck far below. "Fetch me Dr. Robin!" For he instinctively knew that he would need his friend's advice before proceeding.

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You can build anything with Lego! Even interstellar probes! Presenting a Lego version of the British Interplanetary Society's Daedalus probe to Barnard's Star.

Barnard's Runaway Star? You know the Medusae would never have stood for us poking around in their neighborhood!

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Have you had enough of network TV yet? I sure have. Is this the best they can do for creativity? A television show based on a series of commercials?

What's sad is that this appears to be a better effort than what all the forces of network TV can muster.

Even sadder, a amateur (?) effort trumps them all.

I just want to run right out and get an HDTV just so I can watch this quality programming!

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At the end of the day, there's always room for a can or two of beer.

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