Your move, Gaga.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner?

Anyone who manages to be a libertarian and a Buddhist at the same time should get a Showtime comedy made about them.

The 'research how girls actually play' concept is weapons grade bullshit.

There is another excellent analysis of gendered LEGO fuckwittery from Feminist Frequency, which focuses more on tv ads. Very worth a look.

This is exactly what I think of every time I see an article about this.

Kid in the blue pants at 3:00 is killin it. Oh, and I am sobbing so loud I woke my cat up.

I said this at a viewing party and everyone had pretty much the exact same "hahaha can't unsee" reaction.

I think people here are missing the point.

Anyone who appreciates these will probably enjoy Girl Genius - The Internet's Cutest Mad Scientist Webcomic.™ I just discovered it a few weeks ago and I've already read the whole thing.

Aww, man! Don't do this, well-intentioned writer! You're just inviting the evil shadow of geek-love, the part where they have to compulsively tear down the object of their adoration because now everybody likes him, to the party!

Could be worse. At least it's not a coconut crab.

After playing through the Overlord DLC on ME2, I can say with certainty that I'd rather be a blind quadriplegic bolted to the driver's seat of the Mako during Tokyo rush hour than spend one more second in the Hammerhead.

One shining Friday afternoon in 1997, a 14 year old midget from Scranton hit the secondary end boss in Soul Edge on a single quarter.

Two things on the other side of the equation:

Hello Naomi,

I tried to make this point in a class once - didn't have any scholarship to back it up, and I am sure I messed up the language. But I was called a racist for my pains and I haven't mentioned it since. Glad to know someone else noticed it and wrote about it.

Except for every year there's a trend piece about the one piece 'coming back.' From where? The back of your closet, perhaps, as you were busy wearing snowboots because it was winter?

I've long been a lover/apologist of this series - many of my friends to whom I've suggested the books love His Majesty's Dragon but lose interest when it doesn't continue with dragons slotted into Napoleonic War battles, a la Sharpe's Dragon. But many of my friends are historical fiction buffs, not fantasy buffs, so…