They Should Have Called It “Darwin: The Revengination” « Whatever “Maybe if Charles Darwin were played by Will Smith, was a gun-toting robot sent back from the future to learn how to love, and to kill the crap out of the alien baby eaters cleverly disguised as Galapagos tortoises, and then some way were contrived… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-14
Month: September 2009
Grocery Store Science
Dan Meyer, like most people, has long wondered whether there was a good way to predict which check-out line at the grocery store will be the fastest. Unlike most people, he used science to find an answer: “I spent ninety minutes last week just watching, counting, and timing groceries as they slid across a scanner.”… Continue reading Grocery Store Science
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A Smoove Evening | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “The plan to seduce Michelle Obama in both body and soul has also not moved forward during the last few months. She and her people have stopped returning Smoove’s phone calls, and his letters, and the elaborately arranged fruit sculptures he has assembled from… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-13
September 12, 2009
I almost forgot about yesterday’s anniversary– I didn’t think of it at all until the fulsome tribute before Thursday night’s football game. I actually waffled for a bit about whether to put up the annual moment-of-silence post. It’s been eight years, everybody’s concerns have shifted to other things, and September 11, 2001 doesn’t loom quite… Continue reading September 12, 2009
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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
September 11, 2009
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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
Thursday Pretzel Blogging 091009
SteelyKid is cutting a couple of molars at the moment, and Cathy at day care mentioned that she was getting some relief by using a pretzel rod as a sort of edible teether that could reach all the way to the back of her mouth. So we picked some up, and they’ve been a big… Continue reading Thursday Pretzel Blogging 091009
Thursday Sense of Obligation Blogging
A couple of things that I’m not excited to blog about, but sort of feel like I ought to say something about: 1) The Washington Monthly article about StraighterLine, an online program that lets you take college courses for $99/mo. The article is all breathless excitement about the revolutionary transformative power of technology, but it… Continue reading Thursday Sense of Obligation Blogging
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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