My sister’s explanation for insomniac eyebrow-plucking:

“I felt the need to edit something, so I went with my eyebrows.”

I’m sorry, did my capitalized header not explain this adequately?

It’s a trailer for Dollhouse. You will now watch it.

Dollhouse: Watch Eliza Dushku Awaken To A New Identity

Just not a good combination. ::shudder::

FDA Takes Action against Cream Cheese Companies, Executives
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the shut down of cream cheese and seafood operations at Lifeway Foods, Inc

This is awesome. All equipment, civilian or military, should come with something like this.

Will Eisner M-16 U.S. Army rifle maintenance booklet (1968) – Boing Boing

Just involved in a conversation prompted by Top Chef, having to do with phallic presentation. Someone complained of a lack of finesse; my interlocutor responded with, “With phalluses, there’s usually a lack of finesse.” (Or something to that effect.)

I suggested that this conjured an image of a penis engaged in some kind of precision work, like a penis with a workshop in Switzerland building really, really sophisticated wristwatches, with tongs and picks and whatnot, and a big magnifying glass suspended from an articulated arm that came from over his shoulder, or, I guess, testicles.

“And it would be a steampunk watch.”

“No,” I said, “Since it’s a watch, you could go ahead and make it a clockpunk watch, which has even more authenticity. Plus, you could take out the ‘l,’ and now since it’s a penis-made Swiss movement watch, you’ve got cockpunk.”

Well, I’m sure this will determine my google search hit results for the near future.

Suck it, ASCII.

Unicode > ASCII on the web – Boing Boing Gadgets

I really do believe it’s time for zombies to re-enter the mainstream imagination and be rehabilitated (or, I guess, habilitated) in the fashion of vampires and, lately, werewolves. If people who suck blood and turn really hairy once a month can be not only heroic but hot, then I don’t see a major impediment. One of my long-backburnered projects (or, rather, intermittently back- and front-burnered over several years) has to do with this; I guess at some point I may return to it. Anyway, I have a new catch-phrase for this pro-zombie movement:

Bringing sexy back
From the dead