Flametoad

Even though I stopped blogging for several weeks in March and April, I’ve been saving blogworthy links the whole time. Consequently, I have a pretty good backlog. For your edutainment:

As a kid I was careful to spit out the watermelon seeds because I didn’t want one growing inside me. You laughed, but I was right!
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You can hardly go wrong with Adult Swim. Now, "from the people who claim 300 was a true story, comes the tale of our nation’s birth."

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It occurs to me that I must be an adult. I observed when I was younger that commercials used music from when adults were kids. For instance, there was a period when it was all the rage to use Beatles songs in commercials. I always wondered what sort of music I’d hear when I was [...]

When inspiration for a post fails, it’s nice to know that I can always fall back on a Boba Fett rap. Thanks (or curses, ymmv) to James at  Hell in a Handbasket for this one.
 

We already know that machines think we taste like bacon. Now things are getting even scarier. Skynet is striking back with a robot cannon that killed and injured many of its crew. If that wasn’t enough, the makers of those cute little Roomba vacuum cleaner robots are coming out with an industrial-sized assault robot capable [...]