“DAVID HASSELHOFF… *IS* NICK FURY!”

No, not a typo.  Not fake.

Not even #1 on the list.

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It probably should have been #1, but I suspect that Cracked.com couldn’t resist throwing that picture up as quickly as they could possibly help it.  There’s something… majestically wrong about that picture.  And, yes, it’s available.

Go ahead, click the link. You know that you want it.

Moe Lane

The traditional “Why blogging will be light today” post.

Mostly because I’m traveling up to NJ for a week so that my kid can spend a few days with his grandmother while I: help around my mom’s house; catch up with some friends Saturday; and be one of the two RedState bloggers covering the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. I expect to be focusing mostly on the political aspects of the climate change debate, because that’s my motif these days.

Feel free to hit the tip jar to help pay for gas, tolls, whatnot: as it stands I’m only getting away with this because my wife thinks that my mom needs some grandson-time right now.

The latest Darths & Droids explains it all.

[UPDATE]: Fixed.

This comic is clearly therapy for David Morgan-Mar.  Because he so desperately needs Attack of the Clones to make sense, somehow.

Personally, when I get a moment of Lovecraftian existential horror at the meaninglessness of the universe that is exemplified by the prequel trilogy, I just imbibe tequila until I’m no longer in the Bad Place. It’s even good for me! As a friend of mine once said: “Sure, drinking kills brain cells – but only the weak ones!”

We dodged an asteroid, there.

Brother Pejman of RedState emails to inform me that we almost got hit by an asteroid yesterday. TheSydney Morning Herald estimates it at about 120 feet wide, and that it came within 37,000 miles of Earth (I’m translating into real units of measurement), which was more or less the size of the Tunguska* whatever-it-was. If it had hit, that probably would have, if we were very lucky, smacked the life out of a large section of the Australian desert (several hundred square miles, if we’re scaling by Tunguska); if we were lucky, destroyed a random city in the South Pacific; and if we weren’t lucky at all, dropped into the South Pacific and started a tidal wave for which we’d have maybe 24 hours to prepare for.

And the only practical way to stop these things? Orbital missile defense systems.

Sleep tight!

Moe Lane

*Yeah, geeks love Tunguska. Apparently, so do video game designers. Yes, there is significant overlap.

It is unwise to use “Omnivore” as a vehicle name.

(Via Glenn Reynolds) It’s simply not… comforting.

From the first use of aerodynamic ground-effect on Formula 1 race-cars, to pioneering the use of extruded aluminum for lightweight automotive construction, Lotus has been at the forefront of automotive innovation for almost 50 years.

We’ve covered Lotus’ a bit of innovative history and involvement in Chrysler’s ENVI electric vehicle program before, but this release might the public’s first glimpse of the innovation new technology behind the revolutionary hybrid this Financial Times article says Lotus will be revealing at next month’s Geneva show.

Called the Omnivore, this new kind of engine takes aspects of a conventional 2-stroke, and adds a few neat tricks to that proven technology to create an engine truly flexible enough to run on almost anything, from 87 Octane to Cabo tequila to VP Nitromethane.

As an examination of the relevant research materials would suggest*. Also: in light of this if I find out that they’re working on a model that can metabolize hemoglobin I will lead the pitchfork-and-torch-carrying mob on the factory myself.

Fair warning.

Moe Lane

*Oh, thank God. For a really bad two-minute period I thought that there was, or was going to be, a sequel to that one.