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July 10th, 2009: There's a blog collecting Laser Portraits from the past and today my friend Allene sent in her school laser photo from grade three and it's funny and cute and what I'm saying is my school photos were never THIS awesome.

– Ryan

July 9th, 2009: Shortly after this comic went up, Greg sent me a link to The Odds Of Dying From..., which is very handy if you're an American and you want to know the lifetime odds of dying from, say, a "foreign body entering through skin or natural orifice", which are (just?) 1 in 103,004.

As Greg points out, the current odds of dying from being "bitten or crushed by non-venemous snakes and lizards" are at 0! The lesson here is clear, you guys: FEEL FREE TO ANNOY ALL THE NON-VENEMOUS SANKES AND LIZARDS YOU WANT, THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT

FLASH UPDATE: A few readers pointed me to the WHO International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, which enumerates all sorts of problems you can have, more completely than the selection I linked to above. And it's only a hop skip and a jump from there to just reading this list as Tons Of Ways You Can Die. There's no probabilities, but it includes some fun ones like T63.9 ("Toxic effect of contact with unspecified venomous animal"), W.19 ("Unspecified fall") and V97.3 ("Person on ground injured in air transport accident"), clarified on the site as "Sucked into a jet".

FUN TIMES AT THE WHO AND DINOSAUR COMICS TODAY

– Ryan

July 8th, 2009: Guys Goats has a book out now! Infinite Typewriters. Goats has been online since FOREVER (where 12 years ago equals "forever", basically!) and it's amazing, because you can pick up this book and not be lost in all that continuity! The first few pages of comics give you all the characters and background you need.

Goats is kind of CRAZY, in that there's a joke in every comic BUT also this iron-clad continuity BUT ALSO crazy stuff happens all the time. It's almost like a child telling a story, where one thing flows into another, except it all escalates and makes sense and you start at a pub and end up in this universe-spanning epic and it never seems like things have changed. It's pretty rad you guys!

Thus concludes my second book recommendation in as many days, now you know that I read books

– Ryan