Five Scary Things

Here are the five scariest things any human being has eve imagined: Sam Neill with no eyeballs. Sam Neill with eyeballs made of hellfire. Sam Neill with his face all scratched up, and also he is saying ominous things; A hole in space-time with Sam Neill in it;...

Confessions of a Sleazy English Professor

My graphic novels course is just based on a couple old issues of Amazing Spider-Man I found in my basement. I don’t know anything about comics. One time I told a student that I would give him a letter of reference, but all I sent was a drawing of a stick man...

Advantages of ebooks (in an ideal world)

So I got to wondering what would happen if ebook publishers somehow had a bunch of money to make ebooks really awesome (instead of kind of lame, poorly formatted, and with limiting DRMs). What would some of the advantages of ebooks be in an ideal world? Email your...

Some ideas

Little helmets and scuba gear so that bees can go underwater. A flashlight that turns on and off really fast, so that when you point it at something, that thing becomes the object of a disco. A game called “Dance Rules Revolution,” in which long, boring...