Daily Shizu... neither a Daily, nor a Shizu...

A "cute" story from Nedroid Comics, about a Deathkiller and his search for somebody to love. (nedroid)

Benchilada started a post he called The Big Shill... which was a call to artists to post their art (which could be anything, even, as he puts it, "poop sculptures"), for sale, into the comments section. Quite the selection. (benchilada)

Real Life Comics has a good description of the perfect working environment for men. (RLC)

Interlude: 50 Jokes in 4 Minutes:



Canada Reads has announced the books and panelists for the 2009 competition. (CBC) The books are announced in November so everyone has a chance to read them, before the decision process March 2-6, 2009 on CBC Radio One.

Lifehacker describes a book-suggestion service called Whichbook, that uses a series of "sliders" to determine your interests, rather than having to enter in previous books that you've read. Great idea, which will quickly be moved on to movie-selection, I imagine. Anybody seen that yet? (whichmovie.net doesn't...) (lifehacker)

Lifehacker also suggested an interesting webapp called GreatSummary that looks at other sites and summarizes the content for you into a few sentences... so those "too long, didn't read" moments don't have to happen. (lifehacker)

Just for fun, here's Alt|Text Video's "5 Lame Things in Star Wars Canon."



Check out this review of The Doors Live at the Matrix, which was recorded in the pre-Light-My-Fire days of 1967. (guardian.uk)

And this great rant from Lefsetz Letter about why the music industry is on the decline. One of many such fantastic posts. If you're into music, as an artist or a listener, this is a blog worth following. (lefsetz)

And an amazing video by Francois Macre, who performs Michael Jackson's "Thriller" a cappella... using 64 tracks of himself making all the parts... my favourite is his French-accent Vincent Price toward the end. Brilliant!



Dapperstache has released their Periodic Table of Awesoments, which I found through kottke. Needs to be seen. Awesome. (dapperstache)

Speaking of awesome, it turns out that Canadian internet users are alone, but not lonely. Good news for my Born-to-Be-a-Recluse community! As the study summary says: "Canadian Internet users tend to have large personal networks and frequent interactions with friends and family, although they tend to spend less time face-to-face with others, and more time online. Many are using the World Wide Web in ways that facilitate social and civic participation, such as making contact with others and finding out about their communities. Internet users, particularly those who spend more than one hour online per day, spend less time on traditional social activities, including time with family members and socializing over meals. However, they are at least as socially engaged as non-users." (StatsCan) (CBC)

More good news: studies indicate that "the elderly" can improve their cognitive skills by playing games. The study had forty 60+ year-olds play (one of my all-time favourite games) Rise of Nations from Big Huge Games. (wired)

And another of my favourite game studios, Spiderweb Software, has released the fifth and final installment of the Geneforge series. (InsideMacGames) And an update. (IMG) And another update. (IMG)

Jeff Vogel, founder of Spiderweb Software, talked to Inside Mac Games about a bunch of stuff, including the game I'm particularly fond of, the Avernum series. (IMG)

From cool games to cool animation: kottke.org pointed out a post that shows the Futurama direct-to-DVD release of Bender's Game shows Planet Express to be in New York's Hell's Kitchen area. (chrrrharrr)

And a PSA: buy the Starbucks(Red) product this season, and they give a little to the needy.