A shovel fulla coal...

• James Gurney (of Dinotopia fame) does daily step-by-step painting tips
• Portland's own Farel Dalrymple!

• Logan's birth name is Jimmy, and other Wolverine-related revelations
• Modern science turns out Terminator-esque exoskeleton

• John Stewart shakes his fist at Twitter via Laughing Squid
• Eric Smiley, a Seattle-based Couchsurfer, finds himself styling the First Family's hair?

• For my lovely @lollyrae: kick out the jams!!
  
• Aikido for inner-city kids (and adults). Thank you teachstreet.com!

• David Peterson, the creator of Mouse Guard, has a blog? Why was I not informed?!
• Even the genetically-enhanced, reigning king of cute, has his own blog. Ohgod, ohgod, we're all gonna die.

• Pixar draws on Disney's roots of clever cuteness and impeccable comedic timing in this marvelous short, entitled, Presto
  
• "The first touch-screen flexible e-paper has been developed by a team from Arizona State University and E-Ink (the company that makes the technology for Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader)."

• Sporadically updated, but nonetheless enchanting altered book poems
• Get (obscurely) smart with Seed's "Daily Zeitgeist"

• Zombie Strippers has a heart of gold? You don't say...
• This painting has its own music video, so take that, you nasty, undead exhibitionists.

• Speaking of the undead, Kobold Quarterly does it up right
• Oh, and lest we forget another thematically relevant phenomenon in the realm of geek, Order of the Stick explores soul splicing as a nuclear plot option.

• ... and, to round out the list nicely with a bit if jaw-slacking, saliva-inducing eye-candy, I give you the latest installment of Food Porn

That's all (for now), folks! Get back to work, slackers!

Cheers.