Whether you're disenchanted with the current season of So You Think You Can Dance, or worried about going through withdrawal after the Thursday finale, I've got good news -- the fourth season of America's Best  Dance Crew begins on Sunday on MTV! Previous winners include the JabbaWockeeZ and Quest Crew. Bonus -- Shane Sparks is a judge, and Mary Murphy & Nigel Lythgoe aren't!

While you're waiting for Sunday to come, you can sample previous seasons on ABDC's MTV website (offer may not be applicable outside of the U.S.?). Or just get a taste of dance crew competition via this music video from Varsity Fanclub Big Bang:

What does the following describe?

"[A] proven haven for malicious actors and content and... particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries."

First thing that comes to your mind -- no wrong answers!

ETA: And the results are in!

First, everyone passed the pop quiz! Among the acceptable answers submitted: 4chan, YouTube, Wikipedia, IMDB, and TEH INTERNETS in general. A geeky gold star goes to gchick  for 'APIs', and executrix  gets the Marshall McLuhan Memorial Award for 'the Marconi telegraph'. I also would have accepted 'art school', 'beauty pageants', 'that camp my parents sent me to when I was ten', and of course 'fandom'.

And apparently some of you think like the U.S. Marine Corps, who used the description that I quoted to justify banning Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other unspecified "social networking sites."

It just goes to show that even the self-proclaimed "world's premier expeditionary fighting force" is helpless in the face of the sinister new threat of user-generated content. Protect yourself before it's too late -- delete, log off, unplug!


Also it's Wednesday, which means new comics day, so I have a rendezvous with The Invicible Iron Man #16 after work. After seeing an intriguing favorable mention from Steven 'Doom Patrols' Shaviro on Twitter recently (shh! don't tell the marines!), I picked up the last few issues, and they were really good! I've never particularly been a big Iron Man fan -- the last time I read his comic regularly was umpteen years ago, before and during the classic "Demon in a Bottle" arc. But I really like the current storyline, and it's weaving in some great characters like Madame Masque and the Black Widow.

Sadly, I figured I should check out Iron Man writer Matt Fraction's other main title, The Uncanny X-Men, and it was terrible. I haven't read any of the X-books since Grant Morrison's run, but the original Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men was a formative part of my childhood & adolescence.

So for any superhero comics fans out there -- anything else I should pick up at the comic book store? Marvel or DC is fine; I can catch up on the continuity later. Basically, any recs for current/recent comic books, superhero or otherwise, welcome!