New Sci-Fi blog launches.

Gawker Media has spewed forth their newest blog …

We’re thrilled to announce a new member of the family this morning: our sister site io9 is everything and anything you want to know about science fiction, futurism, space, comics, hackers, science, and all manner of geeky culture.

Sounds kind of odd for Gawker to launch a Sci-Fi blog, but then again Sci-Fi content in starting to plunge into the mainstream and therefore means potential dividends for all those who embrace it.

P.S. This io9 chart on post-apocalyptic movies is purty fun.

The library is still cool.

So I suppose all those predictions about libraries being felled by the Internet were a little premature. In fact it looks like all the cool kids are doing the library thing.

According to the newest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Center - the youngest, most affluent and most internet-connected adults in the US are also the most likely to visit a physical library. It wasn’t that way just 10 years ago. How many other legacy industries can you think of today that can say their strongest growth is among young, affluent, power-internet users? Something is going very right in library land.

For once I am one of the cool kids.

I was mis-jotted.

A Jott to Twitter mishap of mine made it to Misjott.com

What Jott heard…
Literally, ticking time needles out of my half crack after getting with of our treat..
What was actually said…
Literally, picking pine needles out of my ass crack after getting rid of our tree
Thanks to…
Guy

I suppose a little back story is in order …

Yesterday, we decided we wanted our living room back from the monster Christmas tree that had taken root there. So my wife and I started our battle to remove it from our house.

After finally getting the beast on the front porch, my wife retreated from the battle royal to watch our son and vacuum up all the pine needles strewn around the living room. I was left alone to move the tree down the steps and tie it to the top of our truck.

After much grunting and swearing the tree was fastened safely on top of the family vehicle, but the battle had taken it’s toll. It had started to sleet and rain, my hands were bleeding, and somehow the aforementioned very sneaky and agile pine needles had made their way from our monster tree into my underwear during the wrastlin’ match.

I was so overjoyed with my victory that I had to document my pain somehow before I drove the old tree to the recycle drop-off point. I didn’t feel like typing out a text message so I thought I would just speak my message of post-Christmas joy via Jott to Twitter.

Needless to say Jott didn’t transcribe it quite the way I intended, but both versions are embarrassingly funny.

You can listen to the Jott here.

Abandoned amusement parks.

I was updating a link on this post when I ran across this list of abandoned amusement parks from Wikipedia. I could write a part two to the Adandoment King based on this list alone.

$9,250 a song.

You probably have already read this WaPo article (or one like it) about the RIAA’s next evil plot …

In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

This makes me Hulk mad, but the graphic that accompanies the story actually gave me a chuckle:

$9,250 for a Richard Marx song? Now that is a true injustice sir! The RIAA should be happy that people even go through the trouble of downloading his music from a CD instead of just using it as a drink coaster.

{Via Unstoppable Robot Ninja}

Why blog?

Somewhere there is something that you find interesting, wonderful and beautiful. So please please tell us why so we can discover it too.

Shawn Blanc from Why We Began Blogging via Derek Powazek.

Another drive-by.

The car snuck in the shot, but I still think it looks kinda cool.

Yoda Claus.

Give me good presents he did …

Get the full scoop about this special addition Yoda.

It’s the water.

So that’s what makes New York pizza so good …

The flavor of the crust has sometimes been attributed to the minerals present in the New York City tap water used to make the dough. It is said that some out-of-state pizza makers even transport the water cross-country for the sake of authenticity.

I am so having pizza for lunch now.

Some jibba jabba.

Check out this awesome Mr. T sock monkey …

More Mr. T sock monkey fun.