Wishbone and the Illustrated Classics series have gotten me through every conversation I've ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, The Anarchist's Cookbook, and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
-- Randall Munroe
Similarly, XKCD and The Daily Mash get me through every conversation I ever have about ... pretty much anything really.
We seem to have a new type of syndicated blog that breaks advogato's recentlog, Firefox doesn't render anything after the Gist embedded in oubiwann's post. Maybe the <script> tag is the problem.