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The definition of bad customer service:

I just went to a comic store to purchase the Serenity comic for my mom. [...] The store I chose, which shall remain nameless (Warp 1 Comics), at an undisclosed location (just off Whyte Ave), has the singlemost sanctimonious, condescending, dishonest a$$hole I've had the misfortune of meeting. My brother and I called ahead to find out they had one issue left, but upon arriving, found out they are gouging people $20 bucks for the damned thing! "That's what they're worth." he sneered at me. I asked him to show me a listing of some sort to back it up. "Well, I just know what I paid Dark Horse for it." He wouldn't show me that, either. I am aware that Dark Horse wasn't expecting these books to sell as well as they are, and that they are going into a second printing, but I just picked up three of them two days ago at cover price at another store. My brother piped up with a, "What an interesting attitude you have." Let me tell you folks, this fella had an attitude, and a smirk that you wanted to knock off his face with a baseball bat dipped in dog poop. Of course, my brother couldn't help letting this guy know who he was trying to hose by holding the issue next to my face. "This guy look familliar?"

-Nathan Fillion

Don't know who he is? He's this guy:


That doesn't help? Try him here. He's the guy in front and centre.


That same picture (roughly) is the cover of the comic in question.

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(click to enlarge - from here)

Almost as cool as Supply Side Jesus.

Greatest headline EVER.

An Australian woman is suing Sydney Aquarium after a giant exhibition tank exploded, showering her with sharks.

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Bush proves again that he's not competent to teach grade school.

Edit: Also,

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Quoth Defense Tech

"Cockpits in unmanned planes. A steath fighter that every radar can see. A drone so evil it illegally downloads MP3s. Popular Science's Eric Adams watches the supersonically silly Jamie Foxx flick, 'Stealth,' so we don't have to."

Why pro wrestling makes history better.

I came out here to let you revel in the greatness that is me! They've all been sent to take me down,
and they've all failed! Just look at the list of names of those who have gone up against me and not succeeded...
Plekhanov, Martov, Dan, even Trotsky, who's stepped aside to allow you the chance to chant my name,
and you know you want to... V-I-L!... V-I-L!... V-I-L!... Kerensky, you have my belt!
The belt that is mine by right and mine by the dialectics! You could have faced me in February,
but instead you decided to stay in Petrograd and fight the Czar instead! Well, now you're here, in my ring,
and I promise you, this will be a November To Remember! This is going to be payback for all those years I spent in exile!
And I'm not going to lay down for you, just because you beat an old, tired autocracy.
You're not facing that now because I AM A BOLSHEVIK GOD!!!
- Eric Szulczewski

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Looks kinda dumb, right? Look closer at our terribly vulnerable little "gang member", at risk of that HORRIBLE hip-hop and selling drugs and bustin' caps, yo.

That kid is one ugly plastic pin away from joining Starfleet.

Yeah. Gangs.

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An Air France jet with as many as 252 people aboard has skidded off a runway while landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, bursting into flames and sending thick black smoke pouring into the air.


There is no word on the condition of the passengers and crew members on board the A340, with the plane still burning more than an hour after the 3:50 p.m. crash.

The airplane was trying to land in bad weather when it skidded off the runway just metres from one of Toronto's busiest roads, Highway 401.

The plane is capable of transporting up to 300 passengers and crew. One news service reported the flight to be Air France flight number 358, a Paris-based flight which had earlier stopped in Montreal, and was carrying about 230 people.

"There was quite a downpour. The visibility was really bad, with lots of lightning," said John Findlay, a CBC News journalist who was at the airport at the time of the accident.

The jet crashed through barriers and ended up in a small ravine at the far west end of the airport, the fuselage tipped down and the aircraft's tail in the air.

"An Air France plane landing on runway 24 went off the end of the runway in the area of Convair Drive and the 401 area in Mississauga," Peel police Sgt. Glyn Griffiths said at about 4:30 p.m.

The incident happened as most operations at the airport were halted because of severe thunderstorms in the area.

All incoming flights have been rerouted from Toronto to Ottawa

Update on the Pearson crash.

Link is the same as before, but the information is up to date.

All 309 people aboard a jet that overshot a runway and burst into flames at Pearson International Airport Tuesday survived the ordeal.

Steve Shaw, Vice President of Corporate Affairs for the Greater Toronto Airport Authority confirmed a few dozen "minor injuries" among the 297 passengers and 12 crew. Ambulance officials say they transported about 43 people to hospital, most of whom were injured as they escaped the aircraft.

The plane skidded off Runway 24 Left, an east-west runway laid out parallel to one of Toronto's busiest roads, Highway 401. It ended up about 200 metres past the end of the runway in the Etobicoke Creek ravine, a small valley at the far west end of the airport, the aircraft's fuselage tipped down and its tail in the air.

Apparently all the passengers managed to get off the stricken aircraft before the fire erupted.

Quote of the day: "Greater Toronto Airports Authority said lightning was causing technical problems with the airport's lightning-detection system."


"I got a riddle for you, Hank. Okay. A plane crashes at Pearson Airport in Toronto. No one dies. Where do they bury the survivors?"