Joss Whedon to head Wonder Woman movie

I've decided to consider this a good thing. If anyone can do justice to Wonder Woman and make a movie that doesn't suck, it's probably Joss Whedon. However, I reserve the right to retract my endorsement depending on who gets cast in the lead role.

Is your brain male or female?

Courtesy of the BBC, here's a long quiz and a short quiz to answer the age-old question, what sex is your brain? According to the short quiz I think like a man, but on the long quiz I came out dead even between male and female thinking.

Beer and caffeine: together at last.

Best knife block ever.

From arm wrestling robots to biscuit-eating machines - yes, technology really is changing the world.

Speaking truth to power

If you haven't seen former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy's open letter to Condoleezza Rice yet, it's worth a read. While his sarcasm and bluntness will probably generate yet another tiresome flurry of Canada-hating among Bill O'Reilly fans, it's hard not to cheer a little when he sticks it to the man:

Such control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington. But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire.

On an unrelated note, while writing the above paragraph I took a look at Bill O'Reilly's website to see if he'd picked up on this story yet and came across these handy tips to help you boycott France.

Can someone please build arm wrestling robots that don't suck?

These arm wrestling robots would be kickass, except that they got smoked by a wimpy teenaged girl.