Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-12-2009

[andrewducker]

• Del Toro Confirms Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis for The Hobbit
  Which was expected, but still, good news. I hope none of them die before it comes out.
  (tags: thehobbit lotr GuillermoDelToro)
• Air BnB
  Allowing people to rent out their spare room by the night - and find others who are doing so. Looks handy.
  (tags: travel accomodation)
• What If Batman's Villains Considered Economic Theory?
  Well, that _would_ explain the recession...
  (tags: Batman economics)
• Basic anatomy baffles Britons
  Doesn't surprise me. I know I _have_ a pancreas - I just don't know where or why.
  (tags: biology education)
• Goths In Hot Weather
  (tags: funny goth goths photos)

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

The pancreas, fine. But half don't know where their stomach is and three quarters don't know where their lungs are!

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

You have to wonder if the last two questions really were, "Where is your arse?" and "Where is your elbow?"

[snowking.livejournal.com]

And they were given a choice of 4 different places.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Superheros and economics generally don't seem to engage with one another, except in The Watchmen or things like Luke Cage and Iron Fist: Heroes for Hire.

I've always wondered why the Taskmaster, a Marvel character who can learn to imitate anyone's non-superhuman abilities merely by observing them didn't give up supervillainy and become a guitar player, baseball player etc.

Away from comics the film Speed is another example: someone once did a cost-benefit analysis of paying the Dennis Hopper character off versus the destruction of all those things exploding, such that Speed II should have been This Time we Negotiate...