The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.
- The best dirty comics by great artists. No actual nudity, but probably slightly NSFW. (Via)
- Supposedly HarperCollins paid $50,000 for a book of re-tweets. (Via)
- Let's talk Mark Sanford! Fox News misidentified him as a Democrat for a while (via) in a mistake that it's hard to believe was unintentional, given the station's track record. Meanwhile, the supervillains have some tips for Mark.
- Penny Arcade's hilarious commentary on the Last Airbender casting controversy.
- We thought we wrote a pretty good review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but we've got nothing on this io9 masterpiece.
- Marvel tweeted an intriguing teaser image yesterday. Are they going to try killing off Wolverine again? Hmm... In other X-Men-related news, check out this insanely complex X-Men universe relationship map (via).
- Awesomely nerdy wedding cake toppers. (Via)
- Horror movie shower curtain and bath mat. (Via)
- An astonishing discovery.
- Warren Ellis posts a teaser image from his upcoming improbably titled project Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island.
- Geekadelphia interviews Michael Hogan of Battlestar Galactica.
- Moon is finally getting an expanded release! It's coming to Philly July 3rd. See it! Here's io9's review.
- You can rearrange the icons on your Mac OS X dock to spell words! And you might as well do it; it's not like anybody makes any actual games for Mac OS X. Ooh, burn! (Via)
- Microsoft Bing's new travel search engine looks suspiciously similar to the airfare search engine Kayak. In other Microsoft news, the company seems to be planning to continue to use Word to render email in the next version of Outlook. No one with any sanity thinks this is a good idea. Finally, MS has launched a power conservation website called Hohm.
- More evidence has recently been found that Saturn's moon Enceladus may have a liquid water ocean—which means it may also harbor life.
- Wireless charging for your iPhone!
- Science says if you want somebody to do something, make the request in the right ear, not the left.
- A video game adaptation of Lars von Trier's Antichrist?! Wow.
- The trailer for The Box. After Southland Tales, we just don't trust Richard Kelly anymore, and the feeling we get from this trailer is that he's made another confusing stinker. But that's just a feeling; it's obviously impossible to say for sure at this point. Still, it seemed clear to us from the beginning that this story was never meant to be adapted into a full-length film.
- The Watchmen director's cut is hitting theaters for one week in July—but only in LA, New York, Dallas, and Minneapolis. C'mon, Minneapolis gets it and we don't? That's lame.
- David Yates talks about where they might split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- Next year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will increase the number of nominees for Best Picture from 5 to 10.
- Cinematical has noticed an intriguing tred in the movies of 2009: puking!
- Daniel Craig's next role might be in a psychological thriller about a haunted house.
- Google wants you to be a GMail Ninja.
- TweetBeep sounds like an interesting service: sort of like Google Alerts, but for Twitter. It emails you when your given search terms get mentioned on Twitter.
- 6 free Windows programs that can help you fix and prevent PC problems.
- Paypal has launched a new service called Do Stuff For Money. You can use it to pay people for doing stuff for you!
- Wow, a Madballs video game! We remember Madballs!
- Links to a bunch of cool custom toys.
- WWIII propaganda posters. (Via)
- Fun and absurd art for sale.
- The top 10 gaming worlds, as ranked by Architect's Journal. (Via)
- Metareviews of Overlord 2 and The Conduit.
- Fauvist paintings of video game landscapes.
- Metroid Prime Trilogy box art.
- Frank Darabont still really wants to make a movie of Fahrenheit 451, but currently whether it actually happens or not could depend on whether he can get the right actors in the cast.
- J.J. Abrams talks Star Trek, Fringe, and Mission: Impossible IV.
- The winners of the 35th annual Saturn Awards.
- A fascinating analysis of who uses Twitter and how they use it. Wow, this Phillyist is a really abnormal Twitter user! (Via)
- Zack Snyder on Sucker Punch and his Illustrated Man adaptation.
- A look at the real and fictional history of virtual reality.
- Zak Penn talks about the difficulties involved in writing the Avengers movie.
- Wow. That is one pink, sparkly Gundam.
- io9 feeds you your morning spoilers.
- A clip from a cheesy '80s sci-fi movie called The Time Guardian, starring Dean Stockwell and Carrie Fisher!
- The 20 best, and 20 worst, pets in science fiction.
- A chemical nose that can smell cancer!
- The internet isn't making us stupider—it's making us smarter!
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