http://benchilada.livejournal.com/713328.html Danger Will Robinson – highly offensive, badly drawn comic ahead.  I link it mostly for the large discussion that goes on after it.  Might as well just stay away if you don’t find stupid things funny.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/441/ This looks like it could be interesting.  I’m downloading the almost 2hr video (also available in audio only) now, from iTunes U.  I’ve been to this section before, makes me wonder if I haven’t seen this already… [Small universe — one of the other lectures in this section of iTunes U is “The Craft of Writing Science Fiction”, a lecture with Joe Haldeman.  It is via this lecture that I learned about his book Accidental Time Machine, which I just read lat week on vacation.]

http://io9.com/5059265/ridley-scott-confirms-hes-making-brave-new-world Anybody up for a Brave New World movie?  How about directed by Ridley Scott, he of Bladerunner fame?   As folks should hopefully know, not only is “Brave New World” a direct Shakespeare quote (Miranda, The Tempest), but a major character spends the novel mostly quoting Shakespeare.  Should be pretty cool!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7655167.stm I’m always interested in putting Shakespeare to music, I think it makes things much easier to memorize (and I’ve got the geeklets to prove it).  Here’s a story about a guy from a Beatles tribute band doing a show where he does exactly that, putting Shakespeare’s words to the Beatles’ music. “The speeches are harder to do,” says the singer who did not study Shakespeare in school.  “But the sonnets seem to be very easy.  They are perfect to put into music.” There is a multimedia widget on the page, but I cannot get it to play.  I’ll update if I get it working. UPDATE: Got the player working in Internet Explorer.  It is….well, let’s just say you have to like the Beatles, shall we?  It’s certainly Shakespeare’s words, but it’s more like “Hey that’s the Beatles doing Shakespeare” rather than “Hey that’s Shakespeare put to music”, you know?  I don’t think I’d love a whole show of it.  I’ll take Rufus Wainwright any day.

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/10-03-08-oneletter/Phthalogreen1.jpg Something send from a friend, via Twitter.  Anybody got more?