Read this article all about China's attempts to respect civil rights by executing more prisoners in these mobile lethal injection chambers than with the traditional (and cost effective) bullet in the head technique.
Especially creepy are the implications that the Chinese government is making the switch in order to better preserve the organs of the deceased for trade in the international human organ market. The article also notes that for now mostly rich and well connected criminals get the van, while lesser criminals are mostly still taken out back and shot in the back of the head.
There's nothing like Imperial Fleet Week, when the Emperor decides it's time to put the fear of Sith into the Bay Area. All the big hardware comes out for us to gaze in terror at and remind us not to get too big for our britches!
You know how movie adaptations of movies almost always suck? Well this little mashup of Pac-Man and Cloverfield definitely doesn't. It's funny and just short enough to enjoy. And the special effects are truly breathtaking!
Check out this robot that uses rat neurons to help it avoid obstacles. The rat brains were said to respond predictably to electronic signals from ultrasonic sensors. They need to set that thing loose in a maze for full effect.
Mark Evanier blogged about a cool website that will tell you what the number one song on the day you were born. Having such an insight into your origins is not for the faint of heart. I was born July 25th, 1975 so I was hoping for something by Stevie Wonder or James Brown. I guess it could habe been worse than this:
And no, it doesn't imply anything about what my favorite magazine is. Get your head out of the gutter!
Over at ComicBookShelf.com we've got thousands of great graphic novel reviews from all kinds of different people from all over the world. But there's one reviewer who has far more reviews than any other and I just happen to know that he's a customer at Hijinx.
Not only does jdp have the most reviews (878!), they are all thoughtful and well written, and most importantly of all he has impeccable taste in comics.
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