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Warren Ellis: Small child I scared the crap out of: “That was...a trick! A TRICK! (looks at her friend and giggles with glee) That was our ...

Noir writer and actual femme fatale Christa Faust has a few choice words for good girls choosing their costumes today.

Via Indri, special Hallowe'en coverage from the Onion .

Ganked entire from Brad DeLong for Hallowe'en, the correct response to some (real) news about Antarctica that may prevent us from seein...

On his Twitter feed Wil Wheaton has been recounting his wrestling match with iTunes. iTunes: "Hey, I know you're having a rough...

In case you missed it on television, YouTube of course has Barack Obama's infomercial. Ray Ghanbari observes: Obama is demonstrating ...

I think that it's not the rantiness that has folks forwarding this page — though it is a good example of the form — it's the annota...

If you're the sort of person who cares, you probably know that Joss Whedon's newest project is a TV series called Dollhouse , and yo...

Me in February: His candidacy is a bet that the American people are sick of the Republican propaganda machine's nasty, polarizing...

John Scalzi has done an interview with a booking agent for superheroes. Q: Okay. It’s a Gila Lizard large enough to stomp a car, that sho...

I doubt there's enough money in the world to get these actors to reprise these roles, but they're doing it to support Barack Obama.

Via Content Love, I learn of Jill Lepore writing in the New Yorker describes the history of voting proceedures. In this fall’s President...

Ganked entire from Nfiniteperplexity: I logged on to World of Warcraft last night and got EATEN BY ZOMBIES! Apparently there's a specia...

Via Thomas Roche, a spicy and strangely sweet story from Olympian Matthew Syed in the London Times Online about sex in the Olympic village...

Brad DeLong: Joe Klein of Time has been banned from the McCain plane, while other Time employees Jay Carney, Michael Scherer, and Mark H...

Jim Macdonald at Making Light liveblogs the shlocky horror movie Unearthed and — bonus! — includes helpful safety tips. The title sequence...

Sam Wang at the Princeton Election Consortium makes an astonishing observation. It is not in the interest of individual pollsters or media o...

Provoked by the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency, Brad DeLong notices something. The Vice President of the United States is the...

My soul sister is a high school principal. One day she stumbled into a conversation her kids were having about what radio stations they f...

John Cole at Balloon Juice suggests that the era of right-wing nonsense may be on its way out, and that we might already have passed Peak W...

I've just discovered Tarvuism, a whole religion I've never heard of, described in astonishing detail at the Tarvu.com website. I ha...

I turns out that Wil Wheaton is cooler than Chuck Norris. Much cooler. Accurately depicted in GURPS, Wil Wheaton as a character would c...

Brad Hicks, reflecting on why folks vote Republican, makes a more general observation about moral reasoning. I long ago got my nose rubbed...

James Howard Kunstler observes “Fannie and Freddie ... managed during the past decade to make housing virtually unaffordable for any normal...

Digby assembles the story on McCain folding on torture which I've been too lazy to line up. McCain was supposed to be the stalwart op...

I'm old that I saw the first issue of Wired on the newsstand and decided not to pick it up. Did I really need another Mondo 2000 ? Wha...

HILARY: I mean, never mind that I'm the one with 17 Wisdom, but does anyone listen to the girl? Noooooo. RON PAUL: Also Mitt have stup...

I give you the Perfect Bruce Sterling Essay: Six hundred and sixty words tying together the iPhone, Third World poverty, the Leatherman mul...

Having received a gift of bacon flavoured jelly beans, a bacon-loving acquaintance reports to me that bacon may have finally jumped the sha...

Via Indri, an evidently true tale of gentlemanly behavior. Schmaltzy, but with a socko ending. I don't really think this is the sort ...