ITEM! The Middleman debuts on the teevee. Unlike a lot of the comic blogosphere, I didn’t read the comic first, so I have the benefit of not having any expectations when considering it as a TV show, and I will say this: while entertaining enough, the dialogue (wherein you can practically hear the panels changing) […]

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Well, I’m coming to the one-year mark of providing what can theoretically be dubbed “entertainment” here on mightygodking.com, and really I’m horribly gratified to see the readership steadily climb upwards; it’s worth noting, to me at least, that this site has finally broken into Technorati’s Top 10K Of The Web (“except for real sites like […]

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The multiverse moves. It moves around itself. Think of it as an enormous wheel – you can most easily travel to any point on the wheel by traveling to and from the center. Which just means you need a way to get to the center. That’s why I called my ship the Spoke. Of course, […]

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The folks over at Balloon Juice are mocking John McCain’s proposal of an “X-Prize”-like monetary prize incentive for developing more efficient batteries. The general thrust of criticism is that if you’re going to have government investment in business, better to have it targeted for research efforts that pay off faster than as an undirected, unorganized […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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ME: You know, I rather think the whole Photoshopping thing is getting a bit predictable these days. MYSELF: I was thinking that myself. I mean, it’s almost getting to be a schtick, isn’t it? ME: And you’ve got to figure there’s more interesting things to Photoshop than just grabbing a selection of some element of […]

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If there is a person who isn’t deeply impressed with this I’d be surprised.

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I know a lot of my readership tend to be more scientifically inclined than me, so I’ll ask: the Large Hadron Collider is set to power up next month. Now, I’m generally of the belief that scientists aren’t blitheringly stupid when it comes to danger, so I suspect the arguments made in this paper have […]

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If we’re going to get an animated Star Wars film, why on earth are we getting the Clone Wars, which has already had live-action movies and an animated series and potentially a live-action series in the future about it – instead of, and this is just off the top of my head, an adaptation of […]

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“U.S. motorists are risking rampant drug violence in Mexico to drive over the border and fill their tanks with cheap Mexican fuel, some even coming to blows over gas shortages and long queues.” Read the whole thing.

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Great works of art, reimagined with Sesame Street characters.

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The Liberal Party released their carbon taxation plan today, and I’d say it’s… okay. It does a lot of what a carbon taxation scheme should, of course, but it misses two major points. Firstly, there’s no tax on gasoline. I understand that gasoline taxes are unpopular, but the lack of a gas tax in a […]

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Cat Deeley is awesome. Chelsea and Thayne: “jazz” (contemporary). Predictably, the judges praise Mandy Moore because on the American SYTYCD it is almost never the choreographer’s fault when a routine is bad. Except this time it very clearly was; Mandy Moore took an exciting piece of music and choreographed a lot of stately walking to […]

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