Real Time Tweets From The Titanic Disaster

For the past few days @TitanicRealTime tweeted the events of the Titanic voyage in real time... just 100 years later. I found out after the fact, but wish I found out sooner because I would have stayed up all night reading along. Yes, I'm a sucker for event live blogging.. even if it's a semi-fictional recreation of an actual event that isn't "live" in any way, shape or form. Either way, this was REALLY COOL and REALLY WELL DONE.

Click through the jump for a full breakdown of every perspective that was offered, or read the entire timeline at http://twitter.com/TitanicRealTime. The same group, @TheHistoryPress, is also doing a Whitechapel investigation live tweet session in August of 2013, but here's hoping these happen sooner and more often.

Conspiracy Theorists Unite: 1987 TV Show Predicts Gaddafi's Death

Three questions...

1. Are you a conspiracy theorist?

2. Have you ever heard of the 1987 TV show Second Chance? 

3. How did this show survive for two months? 

In its original format, the show starred Kiel Martin as Charles Russell, a deceased man, and Matthew Perry as his younger self, who is nicknamed Chazz. In the year 2011, Charles dies in a hovercraft accident, and his soul is promptly sent to the high spiritual palace of Saint Peter (Joseph Maher). It is there that Saint Peter determines that Charles is too good for hell but not good enough to get into heaven; therefore, Charles is sent back to Earth in the year 1987, to re-join his life during the teenage years in order to help himself, through the younger Chazz, make more moral choices.

Onto more KRAZYness. In the pilot episode, there was a scene with Muammar Gaddafi meeting Saint Peter in heaven.. Not so weird...

BUT THE 1987 SHOW WAS DATED JULY 29 2011!!! Less than 3 months from the date of his actual death. For real.

Watch for yourself.

New York Comic Con Report from our Intrepid Reporter!

None of the regular Fruitless Pursuits team got anywhere near New York Comic Con, largely due to lack of funds/time/interest, vast oceans, restraining orders, and an electronic monitoring anklet. Lucky for us, though, we have an agent in the field - our intrepid reporter Travis was in attendance and he has generously reported back on the mayhem that was NYCC 2011 this past weekend!

Hideous potato-headed podracer Ben Quadrinaros on a vintage card? Finally! Sign me up for a thousand!

For some valuable insights, plus exclusive photos of upcoming collectibles, be sure to join us after the jump for an uncensored, unbridled, no-holds-barred account of comic con chaos!

Best Advice To Avoid Getting Hit By A Satellite Tonight

This won't be an issue for most of our contributors, but a few of us have a chance of not surviving the night due to a satellite that's rapidly falling towards us.

U.S. now at risk from falling satellite

Here is my advice to avoid S.S.D.S. (Sudden Satellite Death Syndrome).