@birdmocker: Penny Arcade, certainly, although much of that is through their non-comics activities and the ascendence of PAX as a gaming trade show. There are webcomics that have gone on to have printed collections published ("Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet", "Sluggy Freelance", "XKCD" come to mind off the top of…

The documentary "Dark Days" is a really good film about some of the folks who lived in the underground train tunnels.

@Polymath: Oh, those are okay. Particularly if you've got sword feinting going on and Juri Arisugawa is wielding the sword.

Okay, the titanium floating head of Dorothy Parker is an awesome concept. I imagine it as a flagship battlehead of the NAACP forces fighting a hot war for social justice.

Oh, I have no tolerance for omnipotent conspiracies of layers within layers and wheels within wheels. (YES, JJ ABRAMS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU)

Well said and interesting. Thanks!

The TARDIS' navigation is clearly dependent on PLOTONIUM.

also, pictures of tarsiers make me think of this:

Nice! I'm also fond of the pic where Oppy looks back at its tire tracks. (it was one of the pics in the boston globe's 'big picture' best of 2010 postings.)

When I think of dark body modification and weird sex and metalwork and crazy underground stuff, I think of Kathe Koja's "Skin"

The Mythbusters are tackling "Operation Valkyrie"? Does this mean that next season they can kick sense into Holocaust deniers?

This looks awesome. Possibly more whacked out than the Invader Zim Christmas special.

@SupaChupacabra: CLUCK. CLUCK. CLUCK.

OH HEY, LOOK AT THAT, I'M BOOZED UP AND RUNNING OFF MY MOUTH (well, typing fingers) ON THE INTERNET!

I think the thesis here is pretty well stretched. Things now may stretch back to the 1980's, but things in the 1980's stretched back to the 1970's, 1960's and 1950's and the 1800's and all the way back.

Wow. This post is making me feel all nostalgic, which means I'm OLD. But, yeah. LIQUID SKY, FUCK YEAH. (I'm pretty sure I saw that at the old Orson Welles cinema on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central squares, not far from the video arcade (man, remember video arcades?) that had the FUCKING AWESOME Tron video…

WOOHOO HACKERPOCALYPSE! I'M GONNA KICK IT OLD SCHOOL AND FIRE UP THE VT-100 AND DIAL INTO THE LOCAL TECH COLLEGE'S DIALUP TERMINUS.

@Annalee Newitz: Oh wow, now I'm tempted to register Flibbledeeboop.com and have it redirect to [whatthefuckismysocialmediastra....com]

well, that answers the "what movie" question, which was my only real question about it.

mmm. presumably early advertising, but for what movie? Is there a "Descent 3" coming out?