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Wow, is it that time of year already? The annual Del Close Marathon begins tomorrow. Via the Comedy Central blog.

Okay, I haven't slept right since I saw this, so I'm going to inflict it on you. Ain't I a stinker?



Hey, blame Lisa at BoingBoing. Brr, cow spiders...

The first rule is that... one mustn't mention it... one simply mustn't!



Via David Malki.

The electricity and ACs held through the night, woo-hoo! I'm considering taking the camera in with me this morning but wondering if that isn't too ghoulish. Meanwhile on the internets, did you ever wonder about this whole LOLCat stuff? Now I Can Haz Cheeseburger presents I Can Has History?, the complete (so far) history of LOLCats and related memes in graphical form.

Wow. We've just endured a few minutes of the worst tornadic storm I've ever seen out of our front window, followed immediately by 5+ hours of no electricity. Here's the report from a local news station:



Obviously, the electric has just come back on (say what you will, Con Ed does a bang-up job, at least in our neighborhood) and the ACs are once more operational. Update: The power continues to be sporadic. Not a surprise considering what the crews around here have to deal with Still, a cautious Hoorah, I can sleep tonight! And I can breathe again! Let's celebrate the wonders of Oxygen!



Via Bora from back when he was still on Science Blogs.

Still not at used-to-be-Comic Con. The only thing I really miss is seeing my friends. But Robin and I have an actual social engagement this evening with some fellow not-at-no-longer-Comic Con geeks, in honor of whom I herewith present, via Laura (who's also not at comics-what's-comics? Con, but at Winkie Con which I'd really like to attend someday), the Geek Alphabet. To tell you the truth, I'd like to be anywhere but in steamy Manhattan this evening, but we're hoping to be in air-conditioned buses most of the way, so there's that at least.

Seriously, am I addicted to Wonder Tonic lately for my Silly Sites? As Robin says, if only all world history can be reduced to something this mind-numbing:



My goodness, that's some deliberately bad, over-the-top PowerPointing. Kudos, Mike Lacher.

Very long day. Need some tea. Or some Chamomile Tea Party posters (via Xeni at BoingBoing).

Via Robin, an all-too-familiar scene in a "high-end" audio store, utilizing limited animation and computer-generated (actually typing text-to-movie) voices:



This reminded me, I'd seen another video not too long ago featuring a woman's first day on the job at a mainstream media newsroom - can't remember which blog had this:



I think the black and white is an interesting twist. Here's another orientation video I found, there seems to be a whole subset of these:



This process is apparently known as "Xtranormal." This is now A Big Thing all over the YouTubes. Is it the 21st century's answer to Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation? Or is this just the latest version of the medium being the message, a la Marshall McLuhan on this day, the anniversary of his birth?

This Italian-made fake silent movie of Star Wars is cute, but the 21st-century actors are a bit jarring to me.



Via Bully.