I was a huge fan of King of the Hill so I'm happy to see that Mike Judge has a new animated comedy premiering this month on ABC. It's called The Goode Family and it's about a family of socially conscious do-gooders. Having watched the preview clip (above) I'm doubtful that it can top the brilliance of King of the Hill but I'm definitely willing to give it a try.
(via Very Short List)
I <3 The Onion.
Employees at Classmates.com—an online service that enables users to find and communicate with people from their past for a monthly fee—have done everything in their power to keep the company's CEO from finding out about the wildly popular social networking site Facebook.
Well, it doesn't get a whole lot geekier than this. I'm going to hold out for the iPhone-controlled C3PO myself.
Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.
In this charming four-minute video, a Dutch art student named Evelien Lohbeck transforms an ordinary notebook into a notebook computer.
(via Very Short List)
I especially like the scary "tchcik-tchick-ah"
(via Rifftrax Blog)
Is this what Kirk/Spock slash fiction is like (if it were set to music)? Warning: use of the word f*ck in the song.
(via mulegirl)
If you haven't had a chance to check out this show on the History Channel yet, make the time to do it. The visuals are amazing. I also find it personally heartening that life would continue on even if we all disappeared tomorrow!
(from history.com)
I've always been interested in the monster craze of the early 60s (even though it was a few years before my time) and this Flickr set is one of the most amazing collections I've ever seen of classic monster toys, models and ephemera.
Triangle UFOs take the April prize as the most popularly reported shape - with 27 cases in 15 states, according to non-scientific results from UFO Traffic Reports.
(from examiner.com)
Watch the skies and make your inter-planetary reservation ahead of time!
"Share and Enjoy" is the work of Bob Koehler and Jim Ramsey. The name is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
