If you feel like stretching your brains on pure text & ideas, try the comment thread at latest Charlie Stross ideafest. His proposition - that corporations are effectively an alien invasion. Smart ideas batted around like... well, round here on a good day. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html
@RenThing: Just don't come to Louisiana at all apparently... A customer came into my store with a photo of that thing (Different photo, diff pose and all) on his phone. It was taken 'off his friends deer camera' that they use to 'scout hunting spots' Now... I figured he was pulling my leg, but was sorely upset because he and his buddies were going monster hunting last night (he came in yesterday afternoon) to look for it and i much rather woulda been scared outta my mind looking for Slendy than taking custom shirt orders... I wonder if they found anything.
That Lego Antikythera model just blew my mind! All i ever did with my lego was make space stations and shit...
Want to see a nice apocalyptic piece of Nature versus man? Here's the roof at the Minnesota vikings stadium collapsing due to the wight of the snow on the roof. I still think they should play the games there....