Reason #127 why I love my iPhone

Because if Superman, Dr. Mid-Nite, and myself ever run into hostile aliens, we won't have to dig through our pockets looking for a quarter.

The Greatest Fan Film of All Time

Hot off the presses... I haven't even had a chance to watch the whole thing yet (it's 45 minutes long) but I like what I have seen so far. Here's the guy's blog who wrote it directed and animated it.

UPDATE: This is fucking awesome! It's funny, it's bloody, and best of all, it rewards people who have been reading comic books and watching superhero programs for the past 30 years.

The Greatest Fan Film of All Time
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From around the Web:

• Lots of funny Marvel/DC action figure skits.
• Similpedia! If you have a block of text and you want to see what Wikipedia articles have to say about the content, check this out. (Trust me! -- Via MicroPersuasion.)
• Also - Numberpedia? Will it work? Why not give it a try? (Via Words at Work.)
  
• Mythbuster Adam Savage on Blade Runner.
• Queen's 'It's a Hard Life' + 'You Can't Hurry Love'.
• Check out Stephen Colbert interviewing Andrew Keen. I thought Colbert was supposed to be the one staying in character as a thick-headed dunce. Keen out-Colberts Colbert!
  

Batgirl Becomes a Feminist

For a while in 1967, they were thinking about giving Batgirl her own program. Narrator: "Gotham City, like any other large metropolis, abounds in girls of all shapes and sizes -- debutantes, nurses, stenogaphers, and librarians."

Now check her out just a few years later in this Department of Labor PSA! (Same narrator, btw.)