Things: The Case Against Garfield (& More)

I do greatly enjoy the What’s in My Bag? videos from Amoeba Records. But this might be the best I’ve ever seen, as Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio and solo fame) covers several formats of media they sell there. He also has nothing but praise for Calvin & Hobbes and seriously Does Not Like Garfield.

Normally, I don’t care about anything to do with weightlifting, despite picking things up and putting them down again being one of the few things I’m actually qualified to do. Still, there is something in looking at the science of how people are able to lift more and more weight. Also, it’s worthwhile to learn how to incrementally screw over the Soviet government. Also, it’s good to know that Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (the Mountain from Game of Thrones) seems to be pretty hilarious.

Warren Ellis and Chris Weston put out the Ministry of Space limited series starting in 2001. It asked what would have happened if, at the end of World War II, the United Kingdom had snagged all the German rocket scientists instead of the United States and the Soviet Union. While that did not happen, apparently some folks in Britain already had in mind that going to the Moon would be a good idea…

I know I’m late to the party with Trick Archery Guy, but his stuff is informative as well as mind-blowing. Since he can just casually hit a target with the same reasonable prediction of success as I can… um, as I can… never mind.

What I enjoy most about the xkcd series What If? is that I will walk away with a couple of things I didn’t know before. Like, in this instance: the answer to the question. And a creepy idea about solar-powered call boxes.

One final thing. The game from Cyanide & Happiness, Joking Hazard, is now available as a mobile game. The basic premise is: you have cards, each with a C&H panel on them. And you put together what you think is the funniest three-panel comic you can using the cards in your hand. Now, it, like most games, has a season pass. I try not to spend money on mobile games because that is a slippery slope for me. But. They decided to play dirty and put an avatar in there that I Simply Need. So I succumbed. I hope they’re proud of themselves.