News You Can Bruise for 2008 July 17

Since my weblog reaches a few people who don't know about this already let me point to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which is 1) very entertaining and Narbonic-esque, and 2) an example along with Cinematic Titanic of TV professionals moving into low-budget features with Internet distribution. As with Cinematic Titanic, the writer's strike was the catalyst.

Fully five years ago I was laughing it up at a satirically useless lego piece called a BURP. Well, the the BURP is an actual piece. Big Ugly Rock Piece. (Official name: Rock Panel Rectangular) The joke is on me, except the joke is that there's no real joke.