DC’s Earth One series (which they’ve done for Batman and Superman) so far, are non-canonical retellings of the origin stories of DC’s biggest characters. And when I say retellings, I mean Superman in a hoodie and Batman without his limitless fortune, you know, the kind of rebootings that try to tell a different kind of story with a familiar character. Not having read Superman: Earth One or Batman: Earth One, I couldn’t tell you how successful they wound up being, and some of the things Grant Morrison‘s said about his Wonder Woman: Earth One haven’t impressed (nor have they definitively condemned in my opinion), but I’ll say this for the guy: he knows how to write superheroes as gods. There could be worse places to start presenting the book to me than with art of (likely) Queen Hippolyta going to town on Hercules.

A browser extension or other feature that can blank out or choose not to display tweets that contain certain words is not a new invention. It’s already a basic feature on many Twitter desktop applications and browser extensions to alter Twitter’s native site abound. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t have to know your stuff in order to make one from scratch, which is how seventeen-year-old Jennie Lamere won the Boston Hackathon last month.

OK, OK, so their characters do, not the actresses themselves.

In other news: This means Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be in Anchorman: The Legend Continues, which I don’t think we knew before. We did know Kristen Wiig will be co-starring, though. Bring on the funny.

Will we ever get tired of hearing Gwyneth Paltrow talk about suiting up for Iron Man 3? Probably at least not until we get to see the movie this weekend.

There’s some other stuff in this trailer too, like Sir Anthony Hopkins being an adorable mad scientist and John Malkovich being generally amazing. And Bruce Willis moving and saying things. But the high point is Helen Mirren kicking butt and taking names. I don’t think I need to explain why.

(via: MTV)

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Undergrad biology student Alex Law‘s new blog, Little Girls are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You (or BetterSupes.tumblr.com) is a blog after our own hearts. Law finds photos online of proud little girls dressed as their favorite superheroes, which are sometimes necessarily modified from the original design, and then draws superheroines with uniforms based on their costumes. It’s adorable.

Law notes that this is something he can only do in his spare time in between other projects, so updates will be few and far between. But there’s already more than enough to geek out over.

As someone who has only recently developed the skills for an occasional application of eyeliner and shadow, the mysteries of the mascara wand seem dark and foreboding. Maybe it’s just the flashbacks to being nigh-on attacked with one when some well meaning friends found out I was makeupless an hour before prom, but I can really relate to markmak’s Fury here.

Our ultimate goal is to create a STEM-aligned video game badge for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Creating this badge will get young girls excited in technology and science and let them know that they, too, can have a career in the video game industry. — Amy Allison, vice president at Women in Games International.

The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and Women in Games International are teaming up to develop requirements for a game developer badge for scouts. The Boy Scouts introduced their badge earlier this year, but the Girl Scouts version seeks to specifically focus on video game development rather than a more general focus on games of all kinds.

(via Ars Technica, image is of the Boy Scouts’ Game Design merit badge.)

The YouTube comments on this video are filled with suggestions that Maryana Naumova‘s form is awful and that if she lifted weights on a flat back “She’d be reduced to <120 lbs.” And, OK, I don’t know anything about weight lifting, so that might be true.

But I do know that the face that guy is making at 3:20 was my face throughout the entire video.

And anyway, 120 lbs? My noodle arms ache just thinking about trying to lift that.

(via: HyperVocal)

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When Maria Toorpakai Wazir was four, she cut her hair, dressed in her brother’s clothes, and took her own clothes into the backyard to burn them. “My father started laughing,” she says, “and said, ‘Here we go, we have a Genghis Khan in the family.’” The rest of her childhood in the Waziristan region of Pakistan was marked by fist fights, which she says is how she made friends. “I am a warrior, I was born a warrior, I will die like a warrior.”

Sounds about right for a girl who dressed as a boy in order to play the sport of squash, becoming the best female player in Pakistan, until Taliban threats forced her to leave the country in order to continue to train.