I'm wearing this awesome T-shirt today, in honor of the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, which hasn't destroyed the Earth yet (or ever, you anti-science mouth breathers) but won't really get a chance to send crowbar stock skyrocketing until October when it actually crashes stuff into other stuff.
If you're wondering what the LHC will do and why geeks haven't been as excited about anything since the invention of internet porn, there's a great article on How Stuff Works about, um, how it works. Recommended.
Did yesterday's post about RPGs give you such withdrawal you woke up with the shakes in the middle of the night, certain that there was a Grue at the end of your bed? You may want to read Geekdad's long-overdue review of D&D 4e's Dungeon Master's Guide.
Top Shelf, publishers of Super Spy (my favorite graphic novel of 2008), are having a massive sale. Fill your shelves for $3 a book, and march onward to victory, for great justice!
I'm a huge fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, and my love of Zombie stories specifically isn't exactly a big secret. You can imagine how excited I am to read John Joseph Adams' anthology The Living Dead , which includes Some Zombie Contingency Plans, made available in its entirety by its author, Kelly Link (author of the magnificent Magic for Beginners.)
This comic is awesome. I am not worthy.
While I was at PAX, I signed an autograph for a girl who was wearing an insanely cool T-shirt. It had a retro raygun on it, shooting out green rings that said "woo woo woo!" over them. I asked her where she got it, and she told me that she'd designed and created it herself. It was, sadly, a one-of-a-kind handpainted sort of thing. Thinking quickly, I said "You must put that online so I can buy it," using as much of The Force as I could muster. I guess it worked, because now you can buy one for your very own. Mine arrived yesterday, and it looks beautiful. (Link to Retro Raygun T-Shirt at Zazzle.)
This new Genius thing in iTunes, which is sort of like The Filter meets Pandora is intriguing to me. I've had it build one playlist, and out of 25 songs, it only picked one that didn't really belong there. It even picked out a wonderful song (Landlocked Blues, by Bright Eyes) that I didn't even know I had in my library and hadn't heard until just now. The buying thing is swell, too, especially since Apple is slowly catching up to Amazon MP3 and realizing that given the choice between fucking goddamn stupid DRM and no fucking goddamn stupid DRM, we're going to choose no fucking goddamn stupid DRM every time.
Oh, and speaking of fucking goddamn stupid DRM: Spore? Nelson Muntz has something to say to you, bucko.
That's all for now. I'm going back to future Los Angeles for the rest of the day.