Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a great new series on Cartoon Network. It's a bit of the complete opposite of the Batman: The Original Series, creating some really light moments that work well without seeming too silly. The most recent episode, "The Super-Batman of Planet X" was full of inside jokes. Not only does it parallel Superman in obvious ways (Batman of Zur En Arrh works at a newspaper, Batman of earth gains superpowers similar to Superman, he has a weakness to a rock), there are lots of inside jokes as well. Batman's arch nemesis on this planet is "Rohtul" or "Luthor" spelled backwards. His newspaper girlfriend has a name that's an anagram of "Vicky Vale." The voices are Kevin Conroy (Batman of Batman: TAS), Dana Delaney (Lois Lane in the Superman series) and Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor of that series). It's really a clever set-up. Earlier this year was another great episode, the "Mayhem of the Music Meister" an all musical episode. Not quite as good as Dr. Horrible or the Buffy musical episode but pretty good, and with Neil Patrick Harris as the villain, Music Meister. This show is worth catching, even for adults.

Correlation vs Causation

Better to just let this speak for itself...


Found on xkcd.com

Via: Freakonomics blog

Questions... Part 2

Why is the GI Joe theme song in my head?

He'll fight for freedom, wherever there's trouble
GI Joe is there

It's GI Joe against Cobra the enemy, fighting to save the day
He never gives up he's always there
Fighting for freedom over land and air!

GI Joe (A real American hero)
Fighting to save the day
GI Joe (A real American hero)
GI Joe is there