She's From Away is a brand new web comic from Hope Larson that just started last week and updates every Thursday. It's an autobiographical comic about how Hope and her husband, Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley moved to Nova Scotia where the locals refer to them as "come from aways". Hope's drawings are sophisticated in their cuteness and I love how she incorporates her narration into the compositions.

Read the first episode of She's From Away.

One girl's dream to have the rockingist bat mitzvah of all time!

Extra brownie points if you can sit through an entire viewing of her brother's bar mitzvah rap!

In case gruesome curiosity has overcome you, and you are dying to see a post-operative photo of the first face transplant patient, you can do so here.

A scary series of pictures of what could have been a near mid air collision over London, although there's no telling how close those planes really are. But even if there's a lot of foreshortening going on, I doubt they're the 3 nautical miles apart that they're supposed to be.

Two companies take very different attitudes towards their customers.

The February issue of Wired Magazine has a great story by Bendan I. Koerner about Lego embracing the community of Lego Mindstorms obsessed fans to tap into their enthusiasm and loyalty and make the product more popular and even improve it in future releases.

Koerner writes about Lego executives (and their legal department) debating their response when the Mindstorms firmware was hacked and released on the net within weeks of release:

until I watched this.

I'm in. (even if they are gonna start taking advertising) Should we bid?

Now you can download some of your favorite, classic StrongBad Emails to your computer and watch them on your video iPod. Portable StrongBad is now available at homestarrunner.com.

- Let's start this fine Monday morning with a complete list of the SAG Awards winners.
- Wondering what the next big thing on HBO will be? It involves Utah and lots of wives...Big Love.
- This guy Bode Miller definitely says what's on his mind. Just don't expect too many yellow bracelets at the finish line.
- Remember the last minute block party Dave Chapelle put together last year? Well, here's the trailer for the movie.
- And the folks at Most Offensive Video just hit Valentine's Day. I freaking LOVE these. Via GorillaMask.

There's tons of cool music videos that never see the inside of your television. Allow me to train your retinas on some that I think deserve more attention than they have gotten.

"Bubble" *** (out of four): Steven Soderbergh's bold experiment is noteworthy as much for its delivery as for the film itself.

Sometimes Steven Soderbergh’s films are better described as “projects”. The director clearly enjoys the flexibility his career affords him. Since his 1989 gem “sex, lies and videotape” made him a name, his wildly uneven career has teetered between popcorn fare like "Ocean's Eleven" and serious Oscar bait like "Traffic". With “Bubble” not only is the film itself an experiment (minimalist storytelling using non-actors) but so is its delivery. “Bubble” is being released simultaneously in theaters, on DVD and on cable.

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