Behold, gentle reader, this odd-rhyming storium
Of bookselling’s classiest sassiest emporium
You enter to see the most avant-garde shelves
Philippe Starck dreamed them up, then installed by gay elves
Now gaze at the stacks, and try to keep stable
As these books are worthy of God’s coffee table
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It’s the end of the year, so here at Nerd World we’re putting our own scientific spin on Time’s many Top Ten lists. We’ve collected the Top Ten most amazing photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over the last 16 years. Enjoy!
1) This one here is the Death Star exploding, after George Lucas computerified the Star Wars …
The Time culture critics have just come out with their Best of 2008 Top Ten Lists. This is useful. These guys know what they’re talking about. It’s their job to have thorough knowledge of their areas of expertise. Movie critics see every movie. TV critics watch every TV show. Music critics listen to every album. Then these worthy
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1) I will watch the movies from my Netflix queue that have been sitting around the house for weeks now. Look out Crank, you’re about to get mailed.
2) I will read at least one book written by a woman. That book will be, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by Joanne Rowling.
3) I will successfully consume a 34-course tasting menu known
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To: The Employees of Rich Enterprises, Inc.
From: Richie Rich, President and CEO
My loyal employees,
There is no other way to say it, so I’ll just say it. We are broke. I unwisely invested all our company’s funds with Bernard Madoff, and now the money is now gone, never to return. As of January 1, 2009, Rich Enterprises is no
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New iPod Shuffle to weigh 6 pounds and only hold one song – but it is a really, really great song.
Pixar’s new movie: “Bill Gates, The Boy Who Showers With His Bathing Suit On”
Apple has purchased Infocom, and is getting back into text-based, interactive fiction. New “even-textier” versions of Zork to be released in 2011.
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(WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS RATED “M” FOR MAWKISH)
Looking for a hardcore dose of un-ironic Star Wars nostalgia? Want to remember what young-you felt for Star Wars, before Jar Jar, Jango and Jedi Younglings? Before the 800 million billion Star Wars parodies where the only joke was that something not Star Wars said something …
If you’ve enjoyed the feeling of laughing while watching TV over the last 20 years, it’s probably thanks in part to comedy writer Tom Gammill.
Tom and his writing partner, Mitchell “Max” Pross, started out on Saturday Night Live in 1979, and went on to be hilarious for It’s Gary Shandling’s Show, a memorable run on
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As if fist-bumping Spider-man wasn’t dorky enough, now Barack Obama is having every detail of his inauguration detailed by the master builders at LEGOLAND California. (Even a Lego Rick Warren, who opposes same-sex Lego marriage, and a Lego Dick Cheney, hiding out in a Lego bunker five feet under Lego Washington D.C.)
Now that …
Dear Mr. Uderzo,
You do not know me, but I am a huge fan of the Asterix comics that you have drawn, and later written, for almost fifty years. Ever since I was a child, I have been delighted by the adventures of Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Dogmatix, and all of the indomitable Gauls as they use their magic strength potion to bravely
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I am an unabashed Neil Gaiman partisan, and so I bring with me a deep affection to any adaptation of his books. (Instead of rose-colored glasses, perhaps I see Neil’s work through sewn-on button eyes.) I have every expectation that Neal Jordan’s Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will be a classic. I do so want someone to make
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There is a press blackout on reviewing the Watchmen movie until March 6. However, I’ve seen the movie, and I’m not press. Don’t worry, I’m not going to write a review of Watchmen. What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME
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