* The Daily Galaxy reports that some scientists are worrying that ages-old organic matter unearthed–or un-iced–as global warming melts the polar ice caps will accelerate climate change. Infocult’s Bryan Alexander notes the potential eldritch implications, obvious to fans of H.P. Lovecraft and John Carpenter everywhere.
* New Year’s gift number one: Blogger Ken Lowery, formerly of Ringwood, now has his own fancy new web site, Ken-Lowery.com To think I knew him when he still had the word “Ragefuck” in his blog name!
* New Year’s gift number two: I tend to enjoy The Best of Bootie, year-end mash-up collections compiled by mash-up DJs A Plus D.
* Adam Balz’s brief rumination on the Ed Tom Bell character in No Country for Old Men over at Not Coming to a Theater Near You strikes me as unfair to Ed Tom’s deputy. Balz labels him as “artless [and] simple-minded” whose “far from revelatory” thoughts “dance around the crime.” In fact, if I recall correctly, the deputy’s pretty much dead on in everything he says; the main difference between him and Ed Tom is that he verbalizes most of his thoughts while Ed Tom doesn’t.
* Finally:
They called him Iron Man, a hulking teenage football player with a baby face and winsome smile who lived with his parents in a small ranch house in the Buttonwoods section of town.
Then, one summer night in 1987, Craig Price crept across his neighbor’s yard, broke into a little brown house on Inez Avenue and stabbed Rebecca Spencer 58 times.
She was a 27-year-old mother of two.
He was 13.
Two years passed before Price struck again.
Joan Heaton, 39, was butchered with the kitchen knives she had bought earlier that day.
The bodies of her daughters, Jennifer 10, and Melissa 8, were found in pools of blood, pieces of knives broken off in their bones; Jennifer had been stabbed 62 times.
—“Hulking boy killer changes justice system,” AP, CNN.com
Shucks. I’ll always be a little ragefucker at heart.