"Remember when Rorschach killed that one guy horribly?" "Ha ha, good times." (3)
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You guys! Psyched about that whole Watchmen movie thing (previously, we've touched on Watchmen briefly, like, once or twice?), kinda wanna read the book, but you just can't see fitting a 400-page comic into your busy, busy schedule? Fortunately for you, there's The Condensed Version. (Via the often NSFW Journalista.)
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Ethan said:
The movie could be good or bad, but if you haven't read the Watchmen yet, you have to. Also, this parody of it is pretty damn awesome, but only if you've actually read the comics.
NIH plans to streamline processing of grant applications (1)
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will introduce new guidelines in January 2009 allowing biomedical researchers to amend and resubmit a failed funding application only once, as part of an overhaul of the peer-review system for evaluating grant proosals (see Nature 455, 841; 2008). Applicants whose grants are unfunded after the second submission may reapply only after designing a new proposal. NIH has previously suggested not allowing resubmissions, but decided against this step after ...
The Girls of 'Watchmen' Kick Ass (2)
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Watchmen Exclusive: Girls Kick Ass It's the 6th of November, and that means we get a brand new Watchmen video. This one comes embedded courtesy of MySpace, and hopefully it will be working better by the time you read this, as I still haven't gotten to watch the whole thing without a glitch. No, the thorny question of "Did you change the ending?!" is not addressed ... come on, they do these too far in ...
