Living in the future, as we do, we are sometimes confronted by bizarre questions, such as “is it ethical to clone yourself and harvest the organs?” Today we are forced to contemplate a future in which we are all Spiderman.
Those of you who are saddened by your inability to read a Neil Gaiman book while simultaneously watching Doctor Who episodes can now rejoice — you will not have to choose between them, for a forty-five minute span in 2011.
To date, I have not bought an eBook reader. That may change in 2010:
(The Skiff Reader)
In news from the War on Terror, a California airport was shut down due to a passenger carrying honey. Two officers were hospitalized and treated for inhaling honey fumes. Seriously. Charges have yet to be laid against the honey-carrying passenger.
I do miss hockey. I miss the hits. I miss the goals. And I miss the celebration of the goals.
Ever since I first heard of water birth, I thought to myself: “Funny. That doesn’t sound natural.” After all, can you think of an animal that doesn’t live in water, but gives birth in water? I can’t. It turns out that it’s not natural at all. It was invented 200 years ago, and causes a whole lot of newborns to drown. Which makes sense.
Let’s hope it’s not too abysmal. We have a dog with a mustache-making chew toy, the scubacraft submersible, oddly shaped Chinese knotweed, a giant pigeon statue in London, and — of course — a webcomic.
Click on any of them to be taken to where they came from.