It's called Love This Giant.

And now you know.

And here's the first song from it, "Weekend In The Dust":

No trace of Byrne's voice on this one.

So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of “The Hobbit” films, I’d like to announce that two films will become three.

Peter Jackson

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Obama Needs A Better Accountant

Marsh Dog

Condolences to Kevin Drum, the creator of "*day Cat Blogging", who lost his cat, and one of the stars of his cat blogging, Inkblot, this last week.

Church Bans Black Wedding

Say, do you know who won the 1936 gold medal in Medals ?

Trick question! There was no gold medal awarded. But the Italian, Luciano Mercante, won silver.

Likewise, there was no gold medal awarded in 1948's Painting and Graphic Arts competition, but Alex Diggelmann (Switzerland) won both silver and bronze.

And, do you know who won the 1928 Gold in Town Planning ?

It was Alfred Hensel, for his Stadium at Nuremberg, obviously.

Too loud and all sounds the same, looks the same.

Looking at my business' web logs the other day, I noticed that a certain set of our programmer utilities were being downloaded thousands of times each month. Awesome, right? The weird thing (besides the spelling of "weird") is that the download counts for each of these utilities were nearly identical. And since these particular utilities were actually ten versions of the same C library, just built for different versions of Microsoft's Visual Studio, having identical download counts of really made no sense at all.

So, a little deeper digging showed that nearly all of these downloads were coming from one IP address: in China. And they weren't just going after those utilities, they were downloading everything on the site: every page, ZIP file, picture, etc.. So I did a little web server magic to give them a 404 error (file not found), whenever they tried to get anything at all from our site. That stopped them from downloading, but it didn't stop them from trying. Every thirty minutes, on the dot, these clowns (220.181.157.*) still connect to our site and try to download everything on it - twice.

What do you suppose the point of this is? What are they trying to do? Automatically duplicate our site on their servers?

Strange Comic Timing