The Aphorisms of Charlie Chan Almost 500 from 40-some movies in their original stereotypically semi-broken English. Some are restatements or rephrasings of older sayings ("A fool and his money never become old acquaintances"), some are totally plot-related ("Good policy to have murderer consider detective dope") and some are rather offensive - and not just racially ("A woman not made for heavy thinking, but should always decorate scene like blossom of plum") but some are gems of not-expressed-enough wisdom (my faves follow) more inside

AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque Even the Associated Press (a media dinosaur I have taken to calling the "AssPress") knows what's bull$#*!

The LAST Lost SPOILER The upcoming DVDs include a 12 minute 'coda' about life on The Island with Hurley in charge. Includes SURPRISE APPEARANCE of character not in the Finale.

Banana Vending Machine in Tokyo in semi-cool semi-annoying '360 panorama' interface so you can see the Coke and Pepsi machines on the opposite wall.

A Field Guide to Typestaches I never was happy with "curly bracket" as the name for that punctuation mark. "Typestache" sounds much more fun. Bonus content: The cops in Crime Procedural Universe have Fleshtaches. (Totally.)

$#*! My Town Says A little town in England had a problem with people stealing its sign (probably something to do with its NSFW name). So the town's new sign is carved into a "tonne-and-a-half" stone.
Editorial comment: Good idea, but I wouldn't have picked a stone that was kinda brownish in color...

Awkward Stock Photos ...more than awkward, some are weird, bizarre, disturbing, gross, NSFW, NSFLunch or just plain wrong. And all available for licensing!

DECADES before there were Hipsters, there were Hepsters. And between 1938 and 1944, Cab Calloway assembled The Hepster's Dictionary. It's in the groove and out of the world! Too much and solid!

M.O.N.K.E.Y. Part N.I.N.E.: Now It Never Ends Alright, gang, revival ensuing elsewhere makes essential new thread!! Please don't hate me for this.

The 'issues' with the Apple iPhone 4 must be an opportunity for somebody, right? Introducing the iPhone 4 Attenuation Removal Machine: iARM, only US$3.29! (plus $6.75 shipping) Or having touch screen troubles? Get an iPhone Sausage Stylus', now only US99¢ (plus $4.99 shipping, not for consumption) It's a world of amazing technology we live in.

Sorry, America, None Of These Things Are Sports* With the World Cup, Wimbledon, The Tour de France and some pretty good Major League Baseball pennant races all going on right now, why should anyone care about the World Hot Dog Eating Championship?* * Warning: Gawker links more inside

District 11: The Invasion of the Footie Fans

The Swedish Chef makes Pöpcørn! A little light content from the Muppetverse. Remember: "If it's not Börk Børk Bôrk, don't fix it." Want something more fitting for your local holiday? You WOULD, you USian...

Maximum 2010 Iconography: OKGO meets Muppets (plus celebrity cameos). Maybe not hilarity but amusity ensues.

"Projecting Our Ignorance Is The Past, Injecting Our Ignorance Is The Future" It appears that Kynetx's Blog Post Buzzword Auto-Generator may have some bugs in it. more inside

Happy Captain Picard Day! (via)

FOR SALE: G20 Tank! (6 wheeled, 8.5 ton Armoured Personnel Carrier) more inside

La Maison en Petits Cubes is a sweet, very sad, 12-minute animated film that's kind of a counterpoint to "Up", but without balloons and with a lot of global-warming-esque sea-level-rising. more inside

The very short and fairly descriptive domain name e.co is being auctioned off. Less than 2 hours into the 3 day auction, 16,500 USD has been bid, and it can be expected to go much higher. Of course, anyone can bid, and it'd be a great asset for the BP PR department at any price, right?

Two questions I am often asked:
1. How far in advance do you work?
2. How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?
and... Don't get used to it, but here's another unfinished comic that would have gone stale if I waited to publish it in newspapers. more inside