Having made my own TRON parody, I’m partial to other TRON parodies as well, and when you mix in a heavy dose of an iPhone app, you get my vote.

Also along the theme of mixing two things you wouldn’t normally expect, what do you get when you mix an action scifi thiller with Dora The Explorer?
………..VERY GOOD!

Cakes are nice, but can you have FUN with it??? (They have instructions on how to make the cake here. If outside the U.K., you may have to substitute some candies.)

I’d like to thank Lis Borris for sharing this on her comic’s blog(Broken Plot Device).

Also, here’s something I found in Second Life:

If you’ve made a comment lately and had it deleted, I apologize. Most likely, all of the spam I’ve deleted is actually spam, but they’ve been getting tricky lately and looking legit, for the most part. The latest was a comment saying that the site was slow, and yes, I’ve noticed that a few times lately, but the address that the name would link to was VERY spammy-looking. Quick tip: If you spell iPhone in your address with a zero, you’ll be suspected of being a spammer.
One recent spam “complained” that my blog had too many words and only 2 images. That comment looks rather out of place on a COMIC website, where most of the content is IMAGES. Of course that comment entered a spammy-looking address in the url field of the comment form. That’s how spams work; they trick people into visiting their websites, often with innocent-looking comments. Sometimes those comments look downright out of place or extremely vague. A program is pasting them in, after all.
So in other words, if I deleted a legitimate comment, it was vague or looked out of place. Oh, and if you see a possibly-spammy comment on your own website, don’t visit their address. Instead, if you must verify its spamminess, enter the address into Google and see what it says about it. Antivirus programs(like Norton) might even pop up a comment about the site inside the search results page.

UPDATE(next day): Turns out that my anti-spam plugin, Akismet, somehow got deactivated. Might have been a bad upgrade or something. Might be related to that site-wide issue I had recently(lasted a few hours late at night) that could have been caused by a bad backup(likely backed up during an upgrade, then used a few days later). I’ve re-activated the plugin and now appreciate its hard work even more. I was really suspicious after deleting 5 spams manually today.

I don’t know why it’s Muppets Week on this site, it just is.

NOTE: There has been plenty of doubt put on this article, and NASA itself doesn’t support this finding. Add to that, the original report WAS from Fox News, who is known for untrustworthy science reporting. The scientific journal isn’t regarded very highly, either, and is considered biased toward Earth’s life coming from other planets. The “fossils” are widely considered to be random pits in the meteorites.

I can’t believe I actually read that entire paper in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal(well, I skimmed most of it). Very detailed, very fascinating. Even more astounding, I heard about this finding from a tweet from Weird Al Yankovic! I did read the entire news report on Yahoo! News that he linked to, though.
I’ll sum the huge paper up for ya, and even throw in tidbits that the Yahoo! News article didn’t mention, like the fact that there were THREE meteorites studied.
Late Friday night(March 4, 2011), Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, published his report about microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria being found in 3 different meteorites, all being witnessed as freshly-fallen in 1806(France), 1864(Also in France), and 1938(in Tanzania). These were recently opened up and scanned with Environmental (ESEM) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to reveal bacteria fossils. Why so long after the falls? Well, we didn’t really have this technology back then, did we? The fossils are definitely not contamination from Earth, either, because first; they’ve been inside the meteorites all this time, and second; they’re fossils!
These 3 meteorites are the kind that originate from asteroids and comets, so they definitely aren’t from Earth. This type of meteorite also contains water and organic compounds, which makes them prime candidates for finding this sort of stuff.
The only way I can think of that the bacteria could have come from Earth is if the bacteria was ejected from Earth(dinosaur-killer asteroid/comet/meteorite) millions of years ago shortly before the comet or asteroid passed by, then was fossilized on it. Personally, I find this less likely than life on other planets, which I already consider to be roughly 1,000,000 to 1. Still, it’s a possibility, so I’m throwing it out there.

My optimism for finding intelligent life on another planet has just gone up now that we’ve found SOME form of life out there, even if it’s long-dead. What matters is that it’s not from Earth.

So why am I mentioning this on Kenny Chronicles? Well, it’s cool! That’s why! I don’t plan on introducing aliens in the comic, because quite frankly, the mutant animals are weird enough. Also, I consider the chances of intelligent aliens reaching earth to be 1,000,000,000 to 1, optimistically.

Sources
Original report from the scientific journal(huge, filled with science talk): http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html
News article I found out about this from(much easier to read than the original report, but stay away from the comments, which are mostly off-topic): http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife
Weird Al’s tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/alyankovic/status/44262235186528256

Not really sure what to say about Inception. People entered dreams, dreams within dreams were dreamt, dreams within dreams within… Who’s that wrinkly guy, anyway?

The worst part: there was a smudge or scratch right around the “10 minutes left in the movie” spot. RAAAAAGH! I’m pretty sure that over half the DVDs I play have some issue with them. I’ve come to EXPECT skipping in DVD’s. 10 minutes to the end is a horrible spot for unbearable skipping. After 2 cleanings, we successfully finished the movie flawlessly.

Still had trouble following what was happening. One nit I have is; can’t we do pretty much anything we want in dreams? Why should bullets hurt people in the dream? Especially if you KNOW it’s a dream. I say they should have flown around and rode on porpoises. For being a dream world, they dreamt only stuff you can see in real life, with the exception of the town being folded over and a train barreling down the street. I was quite pleased to see the train, simply because it was finally looking like a dream! I find the idea of the projections being perturbed by changes to the dreamscape unbelievable. In a dream, you just accept that things are happening, not aware that anything is odd. I think that projected people would do the same.

One compliment I do have for it, though, is that it didn’t feel like 2 and a half hours. It actually felt shorter than the playing time, so it must have been somewhat interesting.

If you rent a movie from Redbox through the following link before March 17th, I’ll get a free night’s rental out of it. Surely you’d like to help a cartoonist out, right? Heh. If it’s your first time renting through their website, you get a free night’s rental out of it, as well. Not sure if the free night’s rental will give me one, though, but eh, just use my link the next time to be sure. If you rent through their website, you get your choice of kiosks to pick it up at and are guaranteed to find it at that kiosk once you’ve reserved it. They also have an iPhone app for this, although the affiliate link is for their website. The site and the app save a lot of driving.

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(I might rent Megamind next. It looks interesting.)

It’s all hilarious, but at 2 minutes and 35 seconds, pay extra close attention to the dummy’s face when he says what else he is.

Discovered this yesterday when Eddie Pittman shared it on the blog of his webcomic, “Red’s Planet“. It’s the story reel of an unproduced short film he had a part in.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, it’s been in production since 1997, with various release dates announced over the years. When I read the headline, I considered making a comic where the game was FINALLY arriving for Kenny’s generation. However, it seems like it’s actually arriving this year. Wow. We’ll believe it when it happens, even if the game IS in its last stages of completion. Here’s a video the company made announcing the very-near release date…

It was a good way of keeping the future in the future, but why keep the future away in the first place?
Star Trek used stardates to keep the events of the shows un-specific as to when they happen. But as time progressed, the desire to have exact dates grew. Stardates and our calendar were incompatible with each other by design, but the timelines still intertwined. How long ago was that modern-day event the captain is referring to? Eventually, they created an official chronology with the help of enough research to make a geek start an anti-matter explosion in their brain.

It is time that the Kenny Chronicles universe got some definite years, too.

In April, I’ll do ONE MORE advance of the “__ years in the future”(it’s tradition), then in 2012 I’ll start using absolute years rather than relative years. Before, the year was relative to whenever you’re reading it. This can be confusing, and I wouldn’t feel right having this rule apply if somebody is reading the comic 100 years in the future, when they already have more advanced stuff than I predicted. Probably the biggest reason for pushing the future further and further back is because the timeline indicates that the first Tarneki was created…. NOW! But it’s fiction, after all. Why not have the genetic experiments going on right now? Like Star Trek, I’m starting to reference events that happen between now and comic-time. If I reference something we KNOW will happen between now & then, I want today’s future and the comic’s past to line up. Astronomical activity is just one category of events that we know when certain things will happen in the future. Certain technological advances are near-certain, as well. With only 118 years in between, there will be a LOT of intertwining of timelines.

This coincidentally makes Kenny’s birth year the same as Captain Jonathan Archer’s(2111 AD). For you non-Trekkies, he’s the captain of the Enterprise in the most recent show, Star Trek: Enterprise. That show is set long before Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
With this in mind, certain parts of Star Trek’s history can be assumed. By the time Kenny is born, faster-than-light travel will be possible(not sure I’ll call it warp drive), and there will have been a third world war. They have not found any aliens yet, however, unlike in the Star Trek universe(well, the aliens found the humans). Humans will of course have bases on Mars way before Kenny was born. Star Trek says the first manned mission to Mars is 2032, and real-life plans aren’t far from that.
I may even figure in stuff predicted by other science fiction stories, and will definitely figure in as many real-world scientific predictions as possible, as long as I deem them plausible(sorry, cold-fusion).

So there you have it. Starting in April, the comic will be set in the year 2129. Enjoy 2128 while it lasts :-p