Due to the holiday, comics will be shipping on Thursday July 10th instead of Wednesday. Don't let the terrorists win. Instead, go celebrate independence by blowing stuff up yourself!
I saw this video on the Flowing Data blog (the best data visualization blog I know of) that tries to put the costs of the Iraq war into terms we can understand. Check it out, but be prepared to get angry.
This is kind of like the old Chuck E Cheese Pizza Time Theatre band, except no puppets and the instruments actually play themselves. Plus, they're called The Trons which is way cool.
Over on the Colour Lover's Blog they did a little breakdown of the color palettes of various DCU characters. This mixes my love of comics with my love of color theory, which I'll freely admit is a fairly nerdish combo.
ok, it's not really a robot, as it's really tele-operated by a surgeon, but the cool thing is that the piece of paper is smaller than the diameter of a penny!