FREAKANGELS, free to air: because it’s what Fridays are for. Tell your friends.

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I hope you’ve been listening to my weekly comedy podcast, Tweet Me Harder! If you haven’t, there’s absolutely no better time to start — the latest episode that’s been posted, Episode 30, may be our best yet. I’m super-pleased with how the show’s been progressing and developing over the last few months, and if you like the voice and temperament behind Wondermark, I’m confident recommending TMH to you as well.

In fact HERE IS THE EPISODE IN QUESTION for your listening pleasure:

(direct MP3 link)

We’re engaged in a concerted campaign right now to get noticed by the folks at iTunes who decide on the “staff picks,” which are podcasts that are given special precedence in the iTunes directory. If you’re an iTunes user, and you enjoy the show, there are two things you can do to help:

- You can subscribe to the podcast using this direct iTunes link, which is what determines our popularity ranking;
- You can rate and/or comment on the show in iTunes!

And, of course, there is one thing that you can always do, iTunes user or not, TMH fan or not… you can give yourself a big ol’ hug. Why not? (Unless you are spiky)

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During the run of the show, the show's creator, J. Michael Straczynski, was contacted by NASA officials who asked if they could borrow the design of the show's fighters - the StarFuries - for use on the International Space Station. NASA wanted to use the ships as a combination tug and forklift, adding, "Your design is the most practical we've seen." Straczynski replied that it was fine with him, but that NASA had to call them StarFuries. NASA agreed.

http://catandgirl.com/?p=2339

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2454

I cut wood with a saw today. Please take notes. This will be on next week's quiz when I do my online birthday party.

http://xkcd.com/686/

From one of the great albums of last year that I mentioned at the time of release but probably didn’t get around to listing when I was trying to sum up the year.

G’night.

Mirrored from Dailies.

For anyone having problems identifying these behaviors in the wild: a short primer.

This is what a napping child looks like:

This is what a “napping” child looks like:

OUT YONDER: Sick And Unseen In America is an excellent essay by Neil Shea, densely illuminated with photography by Andrew Cutraro, released in magazine form via POD operation MagCloud.

I’d read an article about this particular phenomenon last year, but Shea and Cutraro really bring it home in OUT YONDER: the plight of uninsured Americans trying to survive via the use of free healthcare clinics in rural Appalachia. It’s a sad and frightening read.

There is a secret town in Kamchatka. One can get here only by sea or a helicopter…

Yet another amazing photo-essay at English Russia, this time depicting the abandoned "submariners’ town" of Bechyovinka:

Pure post-civilisation artporn.

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• French panel: Tax Google to fund the arts
  "How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Google, suggests a new report commissioned by the French government."
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