New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

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This photo makes me laugh so much. It ran on the front page of the NY Times, and shows Specialist Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, TX fighting in Afghanistan in his pink boxers. He had been sleeping when the compound he was in was attacked, and he ran out to help fight in [...]

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So now that school is sort of over, I’m going to try and blog some more.
Right now I’m up at a class in MI taking Ornithology (I’ll explain it later), but I was taking a nap during our afternoon break.
I dreamt we were out walking and looking for birds, and I dreamt I took a [...]

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So I just had one of the weirdest dreams I’ve dreamt in a while.
On Tuesdays I usually have nuclear lab from 8-10. But today the lab got moved back to 9. Last night I went to bed about 30 min later than I had hoped, but still set my alarm for my usual [...]

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This video just made my day.

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A three-year-old boy called Adolf Hitler Campbell has been refused a birthday cake with his name on it by a New Jersey supermarket.
Heath Campbell, 35, and his wife, Deborah, 25, say they are upset at the decision made by their local ShopRite not to write “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” across the cake, and that people [...]

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“I think if we didn’t say ’shortie’ for the next hundred years, I don’t know how that’s going to help things, but I’m just certain that it will.  I just have that feeling in my heart.”
- Mos Def

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“We are blessed to be living in an age when we have a global communications network in which idiots, assholes, and total and complete wastes of fucking human life alike can come together to give instant feedback in an unfettered and unmonitored online environment,” Mylenek said. “What better way to take advantage of this incredible [...]

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⇒ Holy Ghost (xkcd)

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The few seconds of mild shaking during Tuesday’s earthquake didn’t do much damage, but CNN’s coverage did. My daily productivity was cut in half when I had to spend all afternoon answering calls and e-mails from my parents, grandmother, cousins and everyone else I know on the East Coast to tell them I was a [...]

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Noble: Federal Judge Ronald Leighton of Takoma, Wash., for fighting legal verbiage with a limerick and the law after a plaintiff’s massive plaint.
Mounds of verbal ballast can mean a win for the rule of lawyers and a defeat for the rule of law. But federal Judge Ronald Leighton prefers justice’s twin handmaidens of clarity and [...]

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WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS PROFANITY. IF YOU ARE BOTHERED BY PROFANITY, PLEASE DON’T READ IT.
So there’s this mini-saga going on across the pond from us. Apparently a writer for the Guardian The Times (thank you for the correction Mr. Commenter) didn’t appreciate it too much when his sub-editor removed a very important “a” [...]

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Gasoline prices rose to a record-high four expletives per gallon Monday, a rate of fuel-price-related cursing not seen since the 1979 energy crisis sparked a nationwide obscenity boom.
Warning, contains lots of expletives. But funny if they don’t bother you.
⇒ Price Of Gas Rises To Four Expletives Per Gallon (The Onion)

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I just found this clever advert for The Economist which has an immediate impact but kinda becomes a bit awkward if you think about it for too long.
Presumably, it’s meant to convey the idea that the magazine is ‘mind expanding’. …
But ‘brain expanding’ is just kind of awkward. It makes me think of hydrocephalus [...]

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