Every weekday morning, there's a TotalFark Discussion "Family Circus" caption thread — people suggest better captions for the current day's offering from the comic genius of Jeff and Bil Keane. Sometimes, people go a step further and alter the image, to better support the premise of the new caption. For some reason, this was what immediately sprang to my mind for today's cartoon:

I have no idea where the heck that came from; I haven't even thought of that movie in months. But I'd like to think it adds a subtle nuance to the original joke.

A Boy Named Sue was originally a Shel Silverstein poem "song"? All these years, I've thought Johnny Cash wrote it.

Huh.

Update: Silverstein later wrote the tale as told from the father's point of view.

The Colour of Magic will premiere on March 23rd and 24th... only in England. Made by the same company who did Hogfather, it looks like it will be pretty faithful to the novel. Judging from the images on the official site, they seem to have kept in all the things which immediately spring to my mind when I think of the book: the Librarian, Bathys, the Dragonriders of Pern parody, Cohen the Barbarian¹...

And the cast list looks phenomenal. I'd always pictured Twoflower as Asian, for some reason, but he's played by Sean "Sam Gamgee" Astin, in a getup that makes him look a heck of a lot like Alton Brown.

Well, Hogfather was released on DVD in the US less than a year after it aired in England, so hopefully it'll be out here soon.

1. It was Hrun the Barbarian in the book; Cohen the Barbarian was from other Discworld novels. I guess the name was too good to pass up.

Pencil is another free animation package for Linux, Mac and Windows. It's not as full-featured as Synfig Studio, but it looks like it would be easier to use for animated storyboards when I'm planning a 3D animation.

To say that "it's cold, so global warming is obviously a myth" demonstrates not only a fundamental misunderstanding of the claims about global warming, but also a life so unbelievably sheltered that it produced a complete and total ignorance of the Earth's periodic variations in temperature called "seasons".

Seriously, if you're going to spout off about how a scientific theory (global warming, evolution, the creation of the universe) is wrong, you look much less like a complete moron if you actually learn what the theory says so that you can argue against it intelligently.