I take back what I said about the legal ramifications of letting kids build a snowman on your lawn. This is a far stupider and sadder discussion. Any thread about Santa that’s titled “Government assisted myth perpetuation” is doomed from the beginning.

I worry that a five-year-old who is so misled as to think Santa is real or death is not real will be unprepared for rational thought later in life.

I worry that someone who believes this is considered capable of rational thought at all.

On another note, obviously the holidays have made me an angry, bitter person. So a cheerful “fuck you” and “get the hell away from me” to all!

I’m just glad to have had a tiny, mostly inconsequential part in the making of this.

(Yeah, this means I have the original video on my computer. Mommy, it’s scaaaaaaary.)

The fact that this discussion even exists makes me sad.

“Can anyone really explain Chronophasia?” An ILX thread dedicated to untangling one of the stranger and more cryptic Aeon Flux episodes, wrapped up about as well as can be expected by the writer, Peter Gaffney, and the series creator, Peter Chung. Probably not suitable for reading until you’ve actually watched “Chronophasia”; while you’re at it, you should probably watch the whole Aeon Flux canon, now available on DVD in support of the movie.

As for the movie, it’s not mind-numbingly horrible; in terms of pulp science-fiction films, this one was only slightly worse than average on the eye-rolling scale, and far better than the extremely low expectations I had going in. But when you’re trying to make a movie based on a series whose original run had the heroine die in every single episode—and that’s just for starters—perhaps you’re doomed to failure.

Just because you have a hard-on for Ruby on Rails and added some cute little AJAX to your site that tells the people who read your Trackback-enabled, Technorati-rated, Flickr-displaying blog when your fucking muffins are done baking in the oven, doesn’t mean I have to hear a goddamned word about it. OH MY GOD. COMPUTERS CAN DO FUNKY SHIT. I NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE.

Seriously, we’re getting perilously close to “I made these cute Jack Saturn, Megnut and Evstar action figures so I can re-enact the trials and tribulations of Pyra!” territory. An RSS feed and Ruby on fucking Rails isn’t exactly the Communist Revolution. Shut up.

A Street Fighter 3 battle of titanic proportions. Not for the nerd-intolerant.