Headline: PETA wants to turn Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home into a vegan restaurant.

The phrase "bad taste" comes to mind.

COMICS The ongoing revision of Archie has been an interesting project; I have no idea whether it expanded the audience, shrunk it down to a dozen, interested old fans, or made converts. I don't know if the world was crying out for a socially relevant Archie. But now he's going to DIE. CNN has the details. And only CNN! Exclusive!

If you're thinking "aww, that's just an alternate timeline story. He's not really going to die," you're correct. I remember the days when someone died in a comic, they stayed dead. They never came back. Dock Ock dumps a ton of bricks on Captain Stacy, and he's not popping up six issues later explaining that was really his clone doiuble.

By the way, don't tell me Archie wasn't relevant in the past:

RIGHT ON, says Miss Grundy, fists balled! Fight the power! Or be the power!

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON BEDBUGS Kids today are injecting crushed bed bugs. I repeat: Kids today are injecting crushed bed bugs.

SCIENCE! A rare sign in the sky. If you define the word to mean "almost commonplace." USA TODAY:

This won't happen again until 2016. Whoa! Question: if this happens every two years, then it happened in 2012, the year the world was supposed to end. I don't remember Mars alignment being part of that nonsense; it's possible that the alignment-apocalypse guys have been discredited and demoralized by all those grand line-ups that failed to rip the earth from its orbit or send the moon spinning off into the sun, or whatever they predicted.

WEB Controversy over an upcoming indie game, Luftrausers. Here's the developers' response.

Well, if you're piloting an aircraft with the Stars and Stripes on the side, shooting down planes that bear swastikas, there's not a lot of interpretation availalble, is there? It concludes:

It looks like this. I'm not getting much of a pro-Nazi vibe here.

This site examines the developer's explanation, and makes a point that really makes you despair, because it seems so bleeping obvious.

Because the internet has degraded people's social skills and made the culture of constant outrage more likely to thin one's skin? I don't know. But I can't help wonder how they would have reacted to SWOTL.:

You got to play as a Luftwaffe pilot, IIRC. At the time I thought it was morally problematic, but this was the minority opinion.

VotD It's beautiful, but as one of the comments says, it's too short to be poignant.

Bibo from Anton Chistiakov on Vimeo.

Question: why does a robot need a wood fireplace? Another question: when you realize what's going on, does it strike you as an idea that's actually been fleshed out, so to speak, at great length elsewhere?

Also, why is 8 AM ice-cream time?