Uninhabitable Links

Tara Strong Rocks The Harley Quinn Cosplay At SDCC. This is noteworthy due to the fact that Tara Strong is the voice of Harley Quinn in the Batman: Arkham video games. She also does voices for Teen Titans Go and My Little Pony. It's also noteworthy because she is not unattractive.

More Cosplay for SDCC to come later this week!

Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal. Yikes, it wasn't long ago that Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for like $43 billion and that's down from the nearly $110 Billion it was worth back in 1999. Outside of my parents and my wife's parents and probably your parents, I don't know anyone that uses Yahoo regularly. Wall street sees this as a win for Verizon because they've been able to acquire a bunch of content for not very much (It should be noted that Yahoo paid just over a billion dollars for Tumblr alone two years ago). I sort of see this as a loss for the internet as a whole. It's just another case of an internet provider becoming heavily invested in the content business, which is a blow to net neutrality.

Rio Olympics Athletes' Village Declared "Uninhabitable". These beds are too small! Also the toilets don't work, the power lines are all exposed and the whole place smells like gas. Other than that everything is just fine in Rio!

The Astounding Herrera's magic tricks in S03E15 of King of the Hill ("Sleight of Hank") are animated realistically. The people behind King of the Hill really di put a painstakingly impressive amount of detail in to the Magic tricks performed in the Sleight of Hank episode. Man, King of the Hill was just the best show. I have a couple seasons on DVD. I really should go back and watch those more.

King of the Hill meets Silver Surfer

Hey kids, remember when Silver Surfer met Hank Hill? No? Well the late 90s were a pretty weird time.

Get this, King of the Hill debuted in 1997. That's almost 20 years ago. What the hell time? Can you ease off the throttle just a bit? I have kids here I'm trying to create special memories with. Speaking of kids, this weekend my wife is going out of town for work leaving me to play Mr Mom for a full week. So if the dank posts dry up you'll know it's because my children have killed me and are living off my corpse. Just like Lord of the Flies!

Bipartisan Links

Civil War Empire stills. I'm really trying to get excited for this but it's hard. I LOVED Captain America: The Winter Soldier but man did I hate the Civil War comic book.

On a side note I feel like Elizabeth Olsen looks like the version of the Olsen twins everyone was anticipating 10 years go. Like all those people that were eagerly awaiting the Olsen twins to turn 18 so they could get all sexy like were expecting them to look like Elizabeth as opposed to the weird Gollum like fashion creatures they turned into. I guess that's a pretty good place to be. You haven't seen Mary Kate or Ashley in any Marvel movies lately..

Larry Wilmore's Ratings Are 55% Lower Than The Colbert Report. As much as I like Larry Wilmore the Nightly Show is damned near unwatchable. The pace of the opening segment is usually awkward, the skits in the second segment are almost always terrible and the final segment with the round table discussion is a flaming garbage fire every time. Keep the name, keep Larry Wilmore and fire everyone else.

King of the Hill: The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy. I'm not 100% behind this article's thesis. I believe King of the Hill had a very distinct liberal lean (Hank's dog was named after Ladybird Johnson) but as far as bipartisanship goes, it never treated conservatives with disdain. At the most there were a few playful jabs, but in general people with traditional conservative values were respected. It is a stark difference to how the parties (and the media outlets they use) treat each other now.

Liberals like to blame conservatives for the general lack of civility in our current political climate but liberals share plenty of the blame. I was one of like 100 people that used to listen to Liberal Talk "Air America" when it was still around and I remember one of the hosts screaming that George W Bush was a murderer and a psychopath. That went on for MONTHS until the host was fired for calling Hillary a bitch when she refused to cede the Democratic nomination to Obama as quickly as the host would have liked.

Anyway, King of the Hill was awesome. That's my purse, I don't know you!

An Original Film Print of Star Wars Has Been Restored and Released Online. I'm going to download this on Saturday or Sunday. I'll let you know how it works out for me.

A Monument to Man's Arrogance

Every time I want to complain about it being too hot out I remember the summer I spent in Phoenix when it got to 117 degrees. The entire city might as well be built on a Volcano.

AKA the six million dollar honky

Not much happened in the nerd world yesterday so here's the latest Zac Brown Band video. Sure country music and nerdery rarely go hand in hand, but it's not everyday that Mike Judge directs an animated country music video. Enjoy.