remix of cautionary characters goofus and gallant for the more modern than modern world. goofus: “die, mutant scum!” gallant: “i regret to inform you that this shelter is fully occupied”. haha. yeah.

a look at the biggest racket going, from your bile choked friends over at vice. (p.s. to tom, maybe it’s time we finally transcribed that dj names list for posterity?)

what do you get when you take groktor, the galactic brain, darth vader, catwoman, the joker, bono, godzilla, morgan freeman, put em in a big jar and shake? why, the real story of the road to the white house of course! 1, 2, 3. (stolen from mefi)

i think it’s time to check in on the best political strip out there: get your war on. if you have not read it in a while you’ve missed much red text conscerning the new york times, rumsfeld, the 9/11 commision, prison abuse, the handover of sovereignty, etc… can’t miss comedy gold i tell you! best line so far conscerning our prison torture vs. insurgent retribution: “why don’t we just cut to the chase and say the first side to rape a thousand retarded donkeys is the winner?” indeed.

pretty funny. you may ask yourself, where did sadam learn those advanced techniques? well... that ought to be obvious. (via monkeyfilter)

understanding black holes is a tricky business evidently. the prevailing ideas shift endlessly as we look and listen, connecting the dots. in the past few months researchers have been faced with quite a bit of new data to try and fit into the puzzle. they have detected the oldest super-massive black hole yet, so old in fact that it may single handedly force a change in our understanding (which seems only fair to me. anything big enough to fit 1,000 of our own solar systems and weighing about as much as all the stars in the milky way has my blessing to single handedly change anything it wants). simultaneously researchers have also detected the youngest black hole. only two decades old “it is the closest researchers have come to witnessing the birth of a black hole”. meanwhile european researchers found 30 previously hidden black holes, suggesting there are at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as previously thought. there are other oddities being discovered as well. anyhow, cheers to all you black holes out there, old Q0906 6930 and the rest, for keeping us humble.

while the two little rovers-that-could keep chugging along up there on mars (far surpassing it’s none too modest original goals), and stardust continues the trip home after it’s encounter with comet wild2, another great accomplishment is in the making. last night the cassini-huyngens spacecraft successfully navigated into saturn’s rings and gone into orbit there. after having already taken over 26,000 images of jupiter, grabbing some nice high res shots of phobos and spotting the seldom seen atlas, this orbit is the next step towards cassini’s final goal of a soft landing on titan, considered by many to be the most earth-like body in our solar system. first, of course, the spacecraft will take a closer look at those iconic rings. cool stuff. keep the pictures coming.