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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn... IN 3D!

Apropos of nothing, this came up today when we were talking about the new MetalStorm iOS app. This was one of my favorite movies in eighth grade—and I saw it in the theater and statted up some of the dudes in Gamma World: 

Australian waterspouts on Memorial Day

Or as it's called in Oz, Boxing Day.

It's not that nature doesn't care about you. It's  that nature barely even knows you exist:

The Pledge of Allegiance

(found via Jot)

The Internet has created more economic growth than the Industrial Revolution

According to a new MicKinsey report. That's kind of incredible if it's true.

That's my boy

Anecdote from Heidi from last weekend: She was driving with Silas to Yakima, and he was sitting in his car seat in the back. She was playing Black Sabbath and realized that it was kind of loud, so she turned it down and looked back at Silas, and saw that he had his eyes closed and was shaking his head back and forth. She said, "I'm sorry, bud, do you want me to turn down the music?" With his eyes still closed, he said, "NO, TURN IT LOUDER!"

Another classic xkcd

I think it was the hover-over title text that killed me.

Money graffiti comedy

Found while rolling nickels:

Planned Parenthood Abortionplex

Once again, the Onion is hilarious and people are stupid.

"Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?"

After being out of town for a few days, may as well ask that question yet again. 

Louis C.K.'s show on Louis C.K.

Great NYMag piece, which you can't help but read if you're as fascinated by Louis C.K. as I am:

Louis’s work on Louie requires a whole different level of personal oversight. The show is based on his life. Louis is the director. He’s also the only writer, the sole editor (he no longer shares duties with the co-editor he had last season), not to mention the person who oversees music (when the music guy’s budget ran out, he decided to do it himself). He also hired his own casting team: Last season, he turned down FX’s offer to help out and doesn’t inform them about casting in advance. But perhaps the most unusual aspect of the show is that Louis C.K. gets no notes from the network during filming, no script approval—an unheard-of “Louis C.K. deal” that has made him the envy of comics and TV writers alike.

And how cool, he calls Pamela Adlon (probably the most consistently best part of Californication, Marcy Runkle, and the voice of Bobby Hill) “the only real comic collaborator I’ve ever had.”