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Den Of Geek: Top 75 Spaceships In Movies And TV A fairly good selection of spaceships here, if not quite definitive. They do include one of my favorites--the Fireball XL5. That's the one I qualified on when I was six years old. (What? All little kids are fully qualified spaceship pilots. George Lucas said so. )

Maybe--but Hefner does have two sons, Marston and Cooper, by his second wife Kimberly Conrad. Both of them are young adults and have dated Playmates in the past, It's possible they might step into his slippers and slip into his smoking jacket when the elder Hefner passes on, becoming the heirs to the Playboy spirit, if not the actual business.

I must disagree. Yes, Playboy has had, and undoubtedly will continue to have, world class articles and fiction. But that wasn't the reason the magazine became such a huge hit. And it wasn't just the nudes in and of themselves that made Playboy a hit--granted, they were what got people's attention to begin with, and certainly there are more explicit images of female nudity, both still and moving, which can be found quite easily on the Internet or almost anywhere else. That does not mean there is not a place for Playboy in men's entertainment--or in society for that matter. One of the things that Playboy did when they first started photographing their own Playmates and models was that they depicted the women as enjoying sex and being with men as much the men enjoyed being with them. This was done through the choice of props to reflect, as I understand how Hefner put it, "the presence of a man." A necktie draped across a chairback, the woman wearing a man's shirt, two half-full cocktail glasses rather than one--all that and more (especially in the cartoons) were part of cultivating this idea, which at the time seemed quite revolutionary, and even in an age where it seems like everyone and her sister has a page on a webcam site, it's an idea which to my mind is still worthy of attention. I don't know what Playboy hopes to accomplish by getting rid of the idea that made it a hit in the first place, and no matter how they attempt to spin it, it still seems like a win for the anti-sex activists who have dogged Playboy since its inception. I remember an interview with Hefner in which he described the history of sexual liberation in America as being "two steps forward, one step backward." It always seemed to me like Hefner and Playboy were the ones leading the two steps forward, and I don't know who, if anyone, will take their place. Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will.

Someone Lowered A GoPro Into A Rattlesnake Pit In case the link title wasn't enough--be advised that there are SNAKES. Lots of SNAKES.

There's something about the robot in the background in this image that makes me think it's trying to sneak up on the hero--and as he's doing so it's laughing to itself---

So--would this be The Joker at ninety, or The Joker as he might appear in his own "Dorian Grey" portrait?

Guess who's underneath the helmet of this costume?

Oklahoma City Renames Columbus Day

There are those who believe the original series Star Trek was actually like this--

Years ago I was at a panel at GEN CON where Timothy Zahn and a few others were talking about Star Wars, and he commented on Thrawn's death, saying some people had criticized it because they thought he (Zahn) didn't want anyone else using the character. Zahn then explained that he killed Thrawn for two reasons--first, to give the readers a sense of closure to the trilogy, and second, because if Thrawn had lived, the New Republic would have been doomed. So there you go. Personally, I want the New Republic to win.

Saw this posted on Facebook and thought I'd pass it along--Timothy Zahn and what is perhaps his greatest contribution to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The guy nails Grand Admiral Thrawn, in my opinion--

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be! Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Eating all the gum drops he can see. Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra Leave some there for me! Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Counting all the monkeys he can see. Wait Kookaburra, wait Kookaburra That's not a monkey, that's me! Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, Jumping up and down, with his pants on fire. Ouch, Kookaburra, ouch! Kookaburra, Hot your tail must be! Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail, Gets a boo-boo in his tail. Cry, Kookaburra, cry, Kookaburra, Oh how life can be!

That, or she forgot to take off her Linda Lee wig.

"Oh yeah--that's some good catnip there boyyy. . ."

I like the look of him, m'self.

The Duck Bomb!

Right--the "T" should have been a giveaway. It does seem, though, that they're trying a bit much to follow the MCU, what with them bringing in DC's own superpowered android. Hopefully it'll work out for them.

MSN isn't much better. Any article about Muslims, or Obama, or both, will have hundreds of comments against them, and about how Obama is secretly Muslim, or that he's a racist--that last one is especially popular. If there's any doubt that bigotry is alive and well in the United States, one need only go to the comments section after any MSN news post.

Seven Kids Not Named Mohamed Who Brought Homemade Clocks To School And Didn't Get Arrested

I like the one in the link better. It's monstrous and menacing in a way that the original pic so very much was not.