Misc.

* Batman and D&D alignment. I think "chaotic evil"'s a bit of a stretch. Via Neilalien.

* Lesbians have seized control of the world's supply of poems. It is appropriate to panic.

* Star Trek as liberal fantasy: 1, 2, 3. I'm planning on seeing it tomorrow, I'll have more to say then. (Image via Matt Yglesias.)

* Wire creator David Simon testifies before Congress on the death of newspapers.

Tuesday bits.

* Is it Tim Kaine? Staffers called in from all across Virginia for emergency meeting to discuss line of succession if Kaine steps down as governor.

* A Veronica Mars movie?

* Ten weird medical conditions, including the woman who can't stop orgasming, the girl allergic to water, and the boy who can't sleep.

* McCain goes after the Dungeons and Dragons lobby.

* Remember that whole Solzhenitsyn plagiarism thing? Turns out the original story was falsely attributed to Solzhenitsyn and actually came from a right-winger named Chuck Colson.

* And everyone is happy Rachel Maddow's been given her own show.

Mightygodking.com achieves the Geek Harmonic Convergence with this marriage of comic book characters with Dungeons and Dragons alignment. Via NeilAlien.

I know I said xkcd had the last word on Gary Gygax, but I really like this New York Times flowchart detailing how all nerd culture stems from Dungeons and Dragons. Gygax has reached the Kurt Vonnegut/Hunter S. Thomas summit of Internet grief; it's a rare thing to have so many nerdy guys mourning at once. Via Boing Boing.

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One last eulogy for Gary Gygax, from xkcd.

Friend of the show Isaac Cates eulogizes Gary Gygax. I just read the modules, too.

The world's nerds have lost one of their patron saints: Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has died.