I'm surprised no one has mentioned this bit of awesome: Genndy Tartakovsky joins crew of Iron Man 2 as a storyboarder.

December is a time for giving, a time for sharing, a time for making dreams come true, and it is in this spirit that we would like to give the gift of another chance to some of our previous poll contestants, who would've originally had a hell of a lot more votes if frigging Karl hadn't been skewing all our polls for months on end. Let's go!

Poll #428 December Picspam Poll!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

CHOOSE WISELY!

Okay, yeah, maybe Karl didn't take all that many votes away from People Who Look Vaguely Like Ducks, but still! It's my poll, I'll make fun of Jensen Ackles if I want to. MAKE YOUR CHOICE! CLICKY CLICKY CLICKY! <3

That weird phone whatever commercial with the "With a full keyboard you can say LOL the way you'd really say it" makes me laugh because Donna and I? Say LOL.

Only you know, we're in the South so it sounds like, "Lawwwl."

Perhaps we should be unplugged from the interwebz.

Hello members! As you may have noticed, we've been having some... er... technical difficulties here at Hot Daily today, which are totally due to issues that are technical in nature and not at all due to any sort of coup attempts that may or may not have been crushed under the heel of my vaguely despotic stylishly sexy boot. No really!

So with that in mind, let's just set aside those last two posts and move forward in a spirit of reconciliation, for even though this month's poll may have perhaps been slightly skewed in one man's favor, the people have spoken, your voices have been heard, and there was, quite clearly, one hands-down poll winner.

I'm speaking, of course, of Tickybox.



( Oh, Ticky, you're so fine! )

And that's it for this month's third picspam! Tune in tomorrow for next month's poll, which will be full of completely legitimate categories, I promise. XD

THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN RECLAIMED IN THE NAME OF HOTNESS THAT IS NOT KARL URBAN. BREE HAS BEEN SENT FOR REPROGRAMMING.

This is just a taste of all of the people you could be admiring who are so much hotter than Karl Urban...

( People Who Are Hotter Than Karl Urban )

Karl Urban: Just Say No

Brought to you with help from down_with_urban

Yes, finally! After months of waiting and hours spent hacking Hot Daily, I have finally done it! Karl Urban is no longer a bridesmaid! Now he gets to claim his place as one of the Hot Daily Hotties...even if I had to steal it for him.

Join me on an adventure I like to call the journey ( from bridesmaid to bride. )
Now I think we nee--

THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY PEOPLE AGAINST THE PEOPLE FOR THE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF KARL URBAN IN HOT DAILY POLLS. STAY TUNED FOR PICTURES OF PEOPLE HOTTER THAN KARL URBAN.

Someone claims to have 'won' NaNoWriMo with 2.5 million words, a feat so fantabulous it apparently requires announcing twice.

Unfortunately, checking out his website reveals that he used a less than conventional technique to reach this count:

In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye.

“The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.”

NaNoers are Not Amused.

Edited to add my favourite reply from the forums so far:

Plagiarizing other peoples' words is not writing. It's plagiarism, pure and simple, contrary to the spirit of Nano.

Not to mention that your pretense is so thick you could stand on it and not worry about sinking for a good three hours.

So, many of you have probably heard of this or saw last year's, but I thought I'd share it all the same.

Desert Bus for Hope is a charity event for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. It goes like this: They play the most monotonous video game ever, the legendary Desert Bus for a certain number of hours, with the number of hours based on the donations they get. The donations continue while they play, adding more time. Each hour costs more. They have live streams of the bus, the drivers, and a chat where you can talk to them. Every thousand dollars there's a bit of macrospam on the site in celebration.

As of when I'm posting this, they've been playing for almost 22 hours, out of 101 currently paid for with over $13,000 in donations, and have one point, working on 2. Last year they got $22,800 and six points, the world record. They're looking to break both.

It's good fun for us, torturous for them, and hey, if you're going to contribute to the suffering of others, might as well do it charitably.

ETA: Well, they broke the important record. They just broke $25,000 and counting, committed to 110 hours, of which they've played about 64. They haven't gotten more than 6 points though. They keep crashing.

ETA2: So Gabe and Tycho decided to match the next $10,000 that came in after about $25,500. Current count since the announcement? $5000 has already been donated, bringing them up to 30K and something like 113 hours. There will be at least $5000 coming from PA, probably more as more donations come in. The boys almost cried when Tycho called and told them about it.

So, in light of this (don't read if you don't want to know about stupid batman spoilers) I decided to give you a post on why Grant Morrison is stupid. I'm not sure where my dislike started. It was probably Animal Man, though. Goddamn fucking Animal Man. Whether he was comparing the seal hunt to ripping out dolphin fetuses and using them for toys, turning entire storylines into nonsense about Animal Man being a comic character until I was so bored I just didn't give a fuck about the plot anymore, or dedicating an issue to talking about his dead cat when they finally fire him, Morrison didn't exactly please me on that title.

Admittedly, he's still above Garth Ennis because it'd be damn hard to suck worse than Thor: Vikings(of which I swear I wrote a review for, but it seems to have disappeared? Goddamnit. I'll write a new one), which is -1000 points in writer rankings.

Anyway, in-between making bestiality jokes about Morrison because I'm classy, it descended into references to one of my very first contributions to scans_daily.

It was Animal Man.

This thread is lovely and notable as well as a good example of why I don't like Grant Morrison through the eyes of his fans.

John: do not let your eagle daughter hang out with him
Ann: D: D: D:
John: although that's more a warning for colbert and his eaglechild
Ann: Stephen jr is a boy.
John: would that stop morrison?
Ann: D:
John: he'd probably make it wear a little eagle dress
Ann: Shut up.
John: then he'll write a comic about it. And the eagle will realize it is a comic character and not stop talking about it.
John: people will praise it as a work of genius.
John: while mating with another eagle, the dialogue will say 'we fell like fighting superheroes'

It's a very, very funny show that's on British TV and is currently in its third season. The second episode aired tonight and I laughed so hard, I nearly broke something.

Here's the link of the new episode.

This has been an incredibly funny series. That there episode? Pushed it into "legendary" status for me. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way. Just wondering if any of my favourite wankas share this special love?

WTF? Why would you do this to Batman?

I know most of us are still stuffed from Thanksgiving, but I tried a pie recipe from the newspaper this year and it was really om nom nom, so I'm sharing.

( And then there was Pie and it was good! )


( Dragons )

Axis Powers Hetalia is a tiny, cute little fandom about a Japanese webcomic that features the relationships of several countries's personifications. It's a very sweet and peaceful fandom... but that could potentially change.

If you don't beleive me, scroll down until you reach secret 114 If you're too lazy, here's the exact link

*sits on hands to watch the "RACIST!" "IGNORANT!" "MORON!" screams unfurl and then see if it grows enough to move it to F_W or maybe unfunnybusiness *

I'm coming up with a mix CD for a friend for Christmas and this year's theme involves dedicating it to his 7th Sea character. I've got workable music so far, but I'm curious if anyone can recommend some non-Christmas Trans-Siberian Orchestra (if such a thing exists) that I could give a potential listen to.

Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce.

As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd.

The student council at Carleton University in Ottawa has made a shocking discovery*: Cystic Fibrosis only affects white men, and is therefore not an "inclusive enough" disease to raise money for. Needless to say, this causes a leeeetle backlash.

In response, the person who originally made the motion to remove CF from their charity list is "currently not able to live happily." How sad. :(

ETA: *And by "shocking", I mean "completely false".

New Muppet Christmas Special to air Dec. 17

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