Category: Links Dump

Sorority Row | Film | A.V. Club “Late in the dire college slasher flick Sorority Row, the killer takes some time away from impaling hateful victims to explain why the world will be a better place without all the awful people who didn’t survive the movie. And you know what? The psychopath has a point.… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-12

slacktivist: Vampires & crosses “Most vampires don’t believe in the cross, but that hardly matters. It’s the idea of the thing that gives them fits. The cross confronts vampires with their opposite — with the rejection of power and its single-minded pursuit. It suggests that no one is to be treated as prey — not… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-11

NASA Unveils Images From Repaired Hubble Telescope – NYTimes.com “Dr. Weiler noted that the telescope was now in the best shape of its 19-year life in orbit, far surpassing the ambitions of its founders, and that it could last for at least another five years. “Hubble gets better and better and better,” he said.” (tags:… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-10

slacktivist: Same to you, buddy “A $100 account with no fees costs the bank more in paperwork and tellers’ time than it’s worth. In the long-run, such accounts can help depositors develop savings habits and savings balances, developing into the sort of customers banks can and do make money from. But neither the executives nor… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-09

Sunday Function : Built on Facts One of the most useful functions in math isn’t really a function in the usual sense. (tags: math physics blogs built-on-facts science) Hitler finds out about another Downfall parody from dawsonbros – Video “Maybe we should just make one of these ourselves. Do our own clip.” (tags: video silly… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-08

slacktivist: TF: No heroes “Here is the scene LaHaye and Jenkins are stumbling toward: Nicolae sits in his office, meditating on his evil scheme and the worldwide suffering it will cause. In walks the hero. If that hero is anyone other than Buck Williams, then we’re in for some fireworks. Pick a hero, any hero.… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-05

Pfizer Launches ‘Zoloft For Everything’ Ad Campaign | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “”At first, Zoloft was only used to treat depression,” Pugh said. “But what is depression, really? Who died and gave doctors the authority to dictate who is and isn’t depressed? One man’s hangnail could be another man’s darkest depths of… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-04

Physics Buzz: The Surprising Physics of Pipe Organs “In 1877, English physicist Lord Rayleigh observed that when two almost identical organ pipes are played side by side, something strange happens. Rather than each blaring their own tone, the two pipes will barely make a whisper. But put a barrier between them, and they sing loud… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-03

Pimp My Novel: Self-Publishing: Great Idea… or Worst Idea Ever? “Very occasionally, a self-published novel will be something that was somehow overlooked by the publishing industry as a whole and is actually quite good and/or salable. 99%+ of the time, however, these books are either written by the functionally illiterate, are tangled messes of inane… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-02

Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Join the Tunnel Club “It’s decision time now, though (it takes at least a month to line up Guides, guests, and so forth). And while I continue to have no solid plan, I am slowly tumbling to the realization that I am going to continue the site, at least… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-01