Buffy the Vampire Slayer is pregnant

In the most recent comic issue.

Fear of Friday the 13th: paraskavedekatriaphobia

Or, in Pig Latin, araskavedekatriaphobiapay.

Superstition, bigotry, and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life: they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Pt. 2, Bk.7, Ch. 3

Thursday links

If you want to drink less, turn down the music.

Ancient refrigerators.

Ignore this one if you're not a geek:  Why is the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons a big deal?

Gallery: close-up photos of insect eyes.

Like father, like offspring? A musical-taste infographic.

12 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2012.

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic

Case report from 1960.  A Soviet physician, the only medical personnel at an Antarctic base, removed his own appendix.

Via Paul at GeekPress, who notes, "This really takes a lot of guts."

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be...

Ancient Texts Tell Tales of War, Bar Tabs.

Pittsburg cheerleader du jour