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My fellow Americans, Happy 4th of July!

Thomas Jefferson is being kind of emo there (via EPBOT).

I don’t have to explain myself to you.

Compare and contrast.

It’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – the movie. Based on the comic book.

 

Here, this may clarify things.

Awesome sauce.

Looking for something to read?

 For the next month or so, Scott Westerfield and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, are releasing his hit book “Uglies” for free as an ebook.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

Free Words!

I’ve never read it, so I can’t tell you if it’s good. What I do know is that it has a large female fanbase, it’s science fiction, it normally get shelved in the YA section, and John Scalzi likes it. I’ve already downloaded the PDF, and maybe you should, too.

 I’ll let you know what I think.

ZOMBIE BRAINS IN A JAR WANT YOUR BLOOD!

That is all.

Atomic Robo in the flesh! Er, so to speak.

 Atomic Robo

Dude, clean up the building site before taking the picture.

(via Atomic Robo, naturally)

Looking for an article on all the ways the States could fall apart in the year 3000? Why every alien culture in television and the movies speaks excellent English? And what does the Rule of Cool have to do with the Suspension of Disbelief?

Get to tvtropes.org, a wiki about television, movie, and video game story techniques that doesn’t take itself anywhere near as serious as Wikipedia does. It’s a great way to waste hours of your life. You can even tell yourself you’re learning something.

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