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Comics

They did not write coward there!

They did not write coward there! | Let’s Be Friends Again – A web comic about comics nerds answers an important question about French comics and one of the big Fuck, Yeah! moments in recent comics history.

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Comics

Batman and Wingman

batman and wingman

The panel above is from a recent collection of old Batman stories; taken from this blog post, which actually tries to make snarky comments. No comment can top that panel.
[found via Chris Simms]

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Oddities

Costuming the chainsaw-wielding cultist of Cthulhu

What should the well-dressed chainsaw-wielding Cthulhu cultist wear this season? Answer after the cut.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Last Airbender Teaser

There’s a teaser trailer for the live action (Avatar) the Last Airbender movie on the official movie site, which I learned about via io9’s set visit report.

Let me show you:

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Software and Programming

But not on a Tuesday

This showed up in the description of today’s Ubuntu update. For background, file is a Unix utility that tries to identify a file’s type by looking at its contents. Sometimes this can be tricky:

file (4.26-2ubuntu4) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

* 220-magic-update-erlang.dpatch: Escape spaces in Erlang magic to avoid misidentifications, particularly PostScript files produced on Tuesdays (LP: #248619).

The bug report gets better – the fixed bug actually makes printing not work on Tuesdays in some setups…