Great, more war

Russia invades Georgia.

On a cheerier note, this is why I wanted to see Wanted:

If you're not the kind of person who is amused by nonsense like that, then it really wasn't for you.
(pic courtesy of theweaselking)

Everything is broken

Well, to be precise, the cable box is broken, and while the repair guy sorts it out I'm finally going through a bunch of stuff in my "to-read" mailbox.

Including a couple of cool videos:
Procrastination (courtesy of ciphergoth)

and the sixth stage (of twenty eight) of the metageneration of Jessel, the Trifelge Grutinard, ruler of Kozok and the Outerlands, Destroyer of the Nonsphere, and Architect of the Treaty of Hwahr-tak'Ur'sni, which is funny as all hell (courtesy of makyo)

More cool videos

If you've ever played any WoW then you'll love this - the science of Azeroth (matgb):

Writeup of that conference here.
and straight from the world of WTF?!?!? - the trailer for W., the George W Bush story - directed by Oliver Stone (interactiveleaf):