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The Writer of Elektra And Inspector Gadget Calls Spider-Man ‘Cheesy’

Speaking to Coming Soon, Zak Penn, the man who gave us Last Action Hero , Elektra and the third X-Men movie, claims that, for all his comic book movie credits, the only hero he didn’t want was Spider-Man. “Actually Spider-Man was one of the only ones I didn’t want to do because I thought it was a little too cheesy.” Again, that’s the visionary who wrote the virtually unwatchable Elektra , which features a resurrected assassin who has OCD, crapping on two of the best superhero movies ever made (we’ll ignore the studio-driven mess of the third). Glass house? Blackened pot? Willfully obtuse? I can’t figure out which one best suits him. [ Coming Soon ]

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Can Green Visionaries and Eco Realists Coexist?

Image credit: H. Koppdelaney , used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about the UK government’s apparent redefinition of ‘zero carbon homes’ , an anonymous commenter noted how amusing it is “when governments figure out that it’s much harder to actually do something, than to say you’re going to do it.” And that got me thinking—given the urgency of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion, we need radica… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Placenta Teddy Bear

Some eat it, some plant it, and some turn their post-birth placenta into a cuddly teddy bear.

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Placenta Teddy Bear

The Wrong Way To Pass A Class

There are right ways and wrong ways to go about being successful in college. This is one of the wrong ways. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

The Ed Hardy Boyz

Watch these guys save the day in the Case of The Missing Sick Belt Buckle. God bless you, Ed Hardy Boyz – you are true Americans. ( Via .) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

‘Paper Planes’ Cat & Dog Remix

Internet Bylaw 42c, Section III: When someone asks you to post an mp3 of M.I.A.'s “Paper Planes” with dogs barking instead of gunshots and cats screeching instead of the cash register, you do it. That's basically how this video happened. Thanks to Warming Glow reader Jesse M

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