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[DrWho42]

Comic Book Resources' Kellie Lacey wrote about the live-action Cowboy Bebop petition:

Cowboy Bebop Fans Launch Petition to Save the Cancelled Netflix Series

[Nate the Great]

Your daily dose of weirdness is the 1967 Wonder Woman screen test.


I certainly wasn't expecting the same narrator as Batman 1966. Or the costume to be so pathetic.

[Nate the Great]

And today's entry in the category of "songs I didn't think they could metalize" is My Heart Will Go On Meets Metal.


My Heart Will Go On was a radio staple for years, I heard it more than enough times to get sick of it. And I've never even watched Titanic.


If you don't care for the Jonathan Young version above (I don't either), you can listen to 331Erock's version here.



Celine Dion's Christmas Album:
O Holy Night
Blue Christmas
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Chesnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (I will never call this "The Christmas Song")


Listening to so much Dion makes me wonder what her accent is. It turns out that she's Canadian and fluent in French.



And of course we can't talk about Celine Dion without mentioning "The Prayer" from Quest for Camelot.

[Nate the Great]

Cliff Stoll strikes again.


Just in case you have a hard time visualizing conic sections, he's made a conical loaf of bread and sliced it to demonstrate for you.

[Nate the Great]

What better way to celebrate the holiday than to recap everything we know about World War III?

[Nate the Great]

LGR reviews a mouse shaped like a TNG phaser.

[Nate the Great]

Today I Found Out tackles Hill vs. Mountain and Lake vs. Sea.


The latter I consider pretty obvious: lakes are freshwater and seas are seawater. There are exceptions of course, but in general it's a good rule.



The former is a tougher question, and I'm glad that they bring up The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down a Mountain.


My personal definition is thus:



The soil and plants of a hill aren't noticeably different from the surrounding areas. A hill is just a higher version of the area around it.



A mountain is more or less bare rock with isolated patches of dirt. The plants are distinct from the surrounding area, adapted to grow with less dirt, less water, higher wind, colder temperatures, etc.