There's a Board of Supervisors and/or Entertainment Commission hearing going on right now that I am told is viewable on sfgovtv.org if you are running Windows, but damned if I can find it. Can someone tell me what URL to ...

Glaucoma Test in a Contact Lens Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness, and without constant vigilance it can prove a very difficult disease to manage. But a Swiss biotech company has developed a monitoring ...

Apparently, the League of S.T.E.A.M. (it stands for Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparition Management) is a Los Angeles-based art collective that releases videos of themselves basically running around like 19th century steampunk Ghostbusters. If that sentence didn't put a smile ...

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Feast your peeps on honest-to-goodness FINAL FANTASY XIV gameplay in the new video below. Oh, you do speak Japanese don’t you? See the original post: FF14: “Life in Eorzea” #1 Vid

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: Happy WoW Wednesday folks and would you believe we have another new set of WORLD OF WARCRAFT Rares ready to go? Today, we bring you Zul’Brin Warpbranch of Mazra’Alor, Crystal Fang of the Skitterweb Tunnels and Spirestone ...

​There is absolutely no comment that I can make to this Philadelphia Daily News article that will make it one iota better or more insane, so just know that I have edited it only slightly to maximize the good stuff. ...

Oh. My. God. I was excited enough about this movie because of its cast, but I did not anticipate the massive action movie boner caused by seeing Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger together in one scene. They could ...

​Okay, this isn't the most mind-blowing Super Terrific Japanese Thing ever... but it is mind-blowing to me. The Japanese have created a new utensil? That shit is fucked up, yo. It's like adding a new letter to the alphabet or ...

Previously. More: I am pleased that I have a "previously" link for "Giant Inflatible Vagina".

Computer Vision Dazzle Makeup: Images with a red square tested positive, a face was found. Images without a red square tested negative, no face was found. Prior art: the dazzle ships: ...

Obviously, this is a new, fan-made trailer for the original 1982 film, cheating a bit with new CG for the caption text (and a great deal of text at that). However, I posit that normally if enough footage exists which ...

​This is Burger King's new ad campaign; besides Jason, the campaign also features shots of Freddy, Chucky and Ghost Face from Scream (all here) also partaking in a delicious BK combo meal after a hard night of brutally murdering stupid ...

Sorry for two videogame preview videos so early in the morning, but Kotaku scrounged up a video of the new Spider-Man game, and... well, it's noteworthy, to say the least. I had assumed from the title Shattered Dimensions that Peter ...

​Magazine Radio Times got what I believe is the first look at the Doctor's new TARDIS, which is orange, less steampunk-y than the previous occupant's TARDIS, and has actual separate rooms which I'm ashamed to say makes me as excited ...

I think we can get back to rejoicing. Because there's a new trailer of the Team Ninja-developed Metroid: Other M game, and instead of some girl staring wistfully out a window for five straight minutes, it actually has Samus, in ...

​We live in a new golden age of kid's cartoons. Kid's shows today are, by and large, slick, hip, and most importantly, smart -- they're meant to make the parents laugh as much as their kids. Call it the Pixar ...

APB: Fresh from PAX East - here’s some hot APB driving gameplay on “vidya”. Crash into the clicker below to view the new sights. Look at that fast and wild driving on display. Makes me want to play APB with ...

The four kajillion of you guys who sent me this probably figured out that I was saving it for the end of the day; I mean, I love Star Wars and nerdy rap, but this is pretty special besides. Not ...

Jumper Talked Down From Lefty O'Doul Bridge Update, 12:35 p.m.: Mariles says the man "is not jumping. He's apparently doing silly things up there." By "silly things," Mariles means "dancing." The police continue to wait him ...

​Would you buy Iron Man cologne? Marvel and parfumerie Diesel think you will, despite your protestations to the contrary. This ever-so-stylish bottle is pretty much just Diesel's "Only the Brave" cologne repackaged and sold for $67 for 75 milliliters to ...

See also BLIT and comp.basilisk FAQ by David Langford. Follow this link: Basilisk

Can't get rid of your memories? Call Death Bear. Death Bear assured them that their belongings were safe in his cave, somewhere in the northeastern section of Central Park. "It absorbs things like a black hole. ...

This... this is how you update a beloved game. Tecmo has remade the classic football game Tecmo Bowl -- often considered the finest sports game of its time -- in 2-D... and 3-D. That's so awesome. ...

​From Entertainment Weekly:The giant Japanese monster is getting the Hollywood treatment -- again. This time Legendary Pictures will do an American Godzilla movie, based on Toho Company's legendary monster. The studio, which is behind the upcoming Clash of the Titans, ...

​• Sherlock HolmesI'm a Sherlock Holmes fan/snob, so I was pretty worried about this flick. It ended up better than I thought it was going to be, but it's wasn't much of an actual Sherlock Holmes tale -- more about ...

​From the AP:NEW YORK -- The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again.A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million on the auction Web ...

First, the good -- Japan got its first The Last Airbender trailer, and not only does it look good, it includes some more bending scenes:Right now, the bending effects are certainly the best looking part of the movie, so no ...

​Although there were only 250 or so entries in this weekend's contest, it was even harder to judge than usual. Partially because most people wrote full-on biographies of their birthday experiences, and partially because... well, I'll get to the other ...

I'm making a note here: a children's choir singing "Still Alive" from Portal is a huge success. And really, really funny. And they're quite good, too. Thanks to everyone who sent me the tip. Go here to see the original: This ...

​It's not much of a secret that videogame publishers love money, so when a game becomes a hit, a sequel is almost 100% guaranteed. When the sequels succeed, then the threat of the videogame spin-off emerges. Guitar Hero leads to ...

Sony is releasing the 3.21 PS3 firmware on April 1 and it's no April fools joke: PS3 owners will lose support for Linux and the 'OtherOS' install. The PS3 3.21 firmware does nothing else-no added features, game support-it just removes ...

Leverage has nothing on this guy: The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, ...

What's the Matter With Sweden? An interesting article about some podunk little third-world countries like Sweden, Norway, Canada and England that actually support the arts with public funds. Read more: What's the Matter With Sweden?

God, you people are disgusting. The incessant chewing makes you look like a mouth-breathing retard, and all of you -- just like the smokers who consider the entire world their ashtray -- seem to think that once it leaves ...

My Spanish is non-existent, but I'm pretty sure that means "Spanish Alan Moore is very crazy." Of course, a Spaniard doing a weird Alan Moore impression for no discernible reason is still significantly less weird than the actual Alan Moore, ...