George Lucas Frozen in Carbonite

For the collective crimes of Episode I, II, and III.

The Cake is a [Delicious] Lie

A few weeks ago, Sam and I beat Valve software's delightful "Portal." The game is a first-person puzzler with a surprisingly clever sense of humor. It's hands down the most interesting and original IP I've played in the last few years. I highly recommend it.

Xmen Origins: Wolverine

Just in case you aren't already fed up with the deluge of comic-to-film properties flooding the marketplace, you might be interested in watching this leaked trailer for X-men Origins: Wolverine.

And yes, Gambit is heavily featured in the second half of the trailer.

Sexy Optical Illusion

The mind is always trying to stay one step ahead, sometimes to the detriment of our own perception of reality.

The Great Desecration

So whatever you may think of Dr. PZ "Big Balls" Myers, the deed is done. The Eucharist has been desecrated, along with a few pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion.

Read the full story here.

Chris Abani: Shared Humanity

Generally, I try to post the best of ted.com as I see it. I think Chris Abani's talk just might qualify. Abani is something of a Steinbeck foil, interested most in the small acts of compassion that accumulate, but not afraid to acknowledge mankind's dark side. And mankind can be disgustingly dark, a fact to which Abani attests. You should watch.

"It's 'ubuntu;' the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me."

"There's no one more rabid than a Catholic convert."

"The Ebo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community and they would express a wish, and their wish would then be brought to a priest who would find a ritual object and the appropriate sacrifices would be made and a shrine would be built for the god. But if a god became unruly and began to ask for human sacrifice, the Ebos would destroy the god. They would knock down the shrine and they would stop saying the god's name. This is how they came to reclaim their humanity. Every day, all of us here, we're building gods that have gone rampant. It's time we started knocking them down. And forgetting their names."