Wow, is this for real? RefGrunt, everyone’s favorite reference desk blog is being turned into a book? Congratulations Peter!

Adult Swim is going to start showing the Bleach anime this fall.
Part 1 of Polite Dissent’s medical annotations for the manga Monster.

The most excellent Threadbared blog is celebrating Pantyhose Craft Week.
I’ve mentioned before that I once worked in a pantyhose factory when I was a teenager. A tree at the end of the driveway attacked my mom’s minivan while I was driving it, totally destroying the rear window. I had to make some money to repair […]

Library 2.0, the New Coke? In this discussion about Library 2.0 and branding, satirical or not, I want to point to one of Bruce Sterling’s talks about the naming of things and his new word spime. Worth a read, if you haven’t seen it already.
There’s an interesting discussion going on about the use of software […]

I don’t remember where I read this today, but you can view Heat Vision and Jack on YouTube. Heat Vision and Jack is the story of an astronaut (Jack Black) and his talking motorcycle (Owen Wilson). It was directed by Ben Stiller.

Sometimes when I blog I feel like I have one foot in the library blog world and the other foot in comics blog world, so it is always interesting to me when those two worlds intersect. David Taylor of Love Manga reacts to a newspaper story about a 13 year old checking some manga for […]

I took down my old wiki about comics, it had basically turned into a spam pit and wasn’t under active development. So if you’ve linked to it in the past, feel free to delink it!

It really seems like there’s something going on with bloglines not picking up on feeds after people upgrade to Wordpress 2.02. My feeds don’t work, and when I looked over some of the other blogs I follow that also run Wordpress, I’m getting similar bloglines error messages when logging in to see if there are […]

I find the idea of Dallas the Movie rather disturbing.
When I saw the trailer for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, for the first few seconds I was wondering if it was a lame Hollywood adaptation of Initial D, either the manga or the movie. But when I realized that the hero of the […]

I think I managed to fix the problem with my .htaccess file. I have no idea how to fix the feed problems with bloglines though.