posted Friday January 23, 2009 01:20pm EST

Around the Web: superuseless powers, open beverages, and an interview with George Takei

Superuseless Powers - I like Complimentary Chamelon, shown above. Via Newsarama.

An open letter from Doc Brown to Marty McFly - I approve of his use of the word “fucknut,” but it wasn’t Marty who worked with Libyan terrorists to secure the plutonium in the first place! Via Abi Sutherland.

OpenCola - GNU General Public Licensed for tasty. If cola isn’t your thing, don’t forget Vores Øl and the Open Source Beer Project.

Star Trek toys - Following on the heels of yesterday’s Barbies, here is a peek at the kind of toys we’ll see. I want the Bridge...

An interview with George Takei - The Star Trek star discusses his work as a villain on Clone Wars.

Michelle Ryans and Lee Evans to guest star on Doctor Who - The Bionic Woman star and the comedian will be in the Easter special “Planet of the Dead.”

Butt Hole Road, Crapstone, and Penistone - This morning’s juvenile humor brought to you by the New York Times.

Mark Waid starts a blog - The comics writer and Boom studios Editor and Chief talks about his career and current projects.

The Eureka blog is back - Eureka unscripted returns. Check out what the makers of the show have to say.

The Order of Cosmic Engineers - A position statement by a group of transhumanists working in MMORPGs.

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4 comments

1. jasonhenninger
VIEW ALL BY · Friday January 23, 2009 01:38pm EST

the powers thing cracked me up. I had a dream once where I was offered the powers of Superman...or "the grab bag."

The grab bag was a collection of 100 powers sort of like the ones mentioned on that blog. I remember there was the power to raise or lower my body temperature by 3 degrees, the power to remind people of Jimmy Stewart, the power to make 3 noncorporeal floating vases appear, the power to smell like lemons...stuff like that.

2. Torie
VIEW ALL BY · Friday January 23, 2009 01:46pm EST

@ 1

Oh man, that's fantastic. What did you pick? The grab bag? Which one did you wind up with?

3. jasonhenninger
VIEW ALL BY · Friday January 23, 2009 01:53pm EST

I took the grab bag, absolutely. Who wants to be Superman when you can supernaturally make someone's shoes slightly more comfortable?

There are only a few powers that were expressly stated in the dream, but I've often thought of drawing up a list of the other 90 or so powers that might come in such a package.

4. sonipitts
VIEW ALL BY · Friday January 23, 2009 11:42pm EST

Dude, you do know that if you had the power to make other people's shoes more comfortable, you would be constantly surrounded by women in heels who would never let you out of their sight (and no doubt hordes of other people, as well - there is nothing quite so soul-draining as sore feet).

You must understand, this is not a power to be toyed with.