Well, we’ve recently hit a drought of posts here at Lintbox lately, due possibly to the fact that we’re lazy loafers.  I have recently, however, managed to fix quite a few remaining problems with the site’s layout, and have yet again updated the categories with new, flashier icons and a few additional topics.

We should be back in action soon!

In the meantime, be sure to check out Joss Whedon’s latest project, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog if you’re one of the very few remaining who haven’t.  The awesome series has become a huge online hit, and rightly so.  This is, after all, the Joss-Whedon’s-Firefly Joss Whedon we’re talking about.  If you’re late in the game, though, you should know that the series is scheduled to no longer be available for free today (As of the writing of this post, it’s still up).  Luckily, it can be found on iTunes for only $1.99 per act, and Dr. Horrible is worth every penny.

Also be sure to check out the related Captain Hammer’s Be Like Me, a wonderful short expository comic on the story’s antagonist (who is, ironically, a superhero).  The character Captain Hammer, as it turns out, is a brash, self-important and dim-witted brute who shows more interest in himself than the rest of society.  Most nefarious of all (and very related to the topic of skepticism) he follows the principles of figures such as Pol Pot in condemning the very appearance of intellectualism and the scientific pursuit in general.  Captain Hammer is, in fact, the very personification of the vapid, malicious anti-scientific sentiments skeptics and scientists alike aim to expunge.

In short, it’s awesome.  Watch it as many times as our linear timeframe may allow (or more)!