Via a mailing list, the Gingerbread Haka: If you don’t get the joke, there’s a video of the original below the fold, with bonus shirtless ruggers:
Category: Silliness
Dorky Poll: Science Power!
OK, the monkey business may have been a little too abstract for a good audience participation entry. So let’s fall back on a classic: What science-related superpower would you most like to have? Because this is a Dorky Poll, “science-related superpower” here means a supernatural ability that is useful for doing science. Because battling crime… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Science Power!
Non-Dorky Poll: Monkey Power!
This is the famous carving of the Three Wise Monkeys on the stable at the Nikko Tosho-gu: Looking at that suggests a possible question for a non-dorky poll, analogous to the dork classic “what superpower would you want?”: If you could go through life either seeing no evil, hearing no evil, or speaking no evil,… Continue reading Non-Dorky Poll: Monkey Power!
White House: “More Study Needed” on Gore Nobel
(WASHINGTON, DC) On the heels of reports from Oslo that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore, a White House spokesman issued a statement saying that “significant uncertainty” remained regarding the recipient of the prize. “The President feels that… Continue reading White House: “More Study Needed” on Gore Nobel
Dorky Poll: Meta-Dorkitude
I’m running short of Dorky Poll topics– suggestions are welcome– but it occurred to me that a meta-dorky-poll might be worth a shot. So: There have been many Dorky Polls here over the last year or two. Which Dorky Poll question was the most dorktastic? “Dorktastic” is in the eye of the beholder, obviously– it… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Meta-Dorkitude
Win at Running, Football, Arson, Weddings, and Art!
From email, a silly fake commercial from CollegeHumor: Why do I care? Look at 1:35.
After Faking Her Death to Escape the Potter Fiasco, Hedwig Moved to Japan and Took Night Classes in Psychology…
It’s as good an explanation as any for this:
Giant Machine Creates Science
America’s Finest News Source has the last word in generic science articles: According to the scientists, the electromagnetic science-maker will make atoms move and spin around very quickly, though spectators at the hearing said afterward they could not account for how one could get some atoms to move around faster than other ones if everything… Continue reading Giant Machine Creates Science
Reality Lets Me Down, Again
From the “You Read Too Much SF” file: I was really disappointed by the press release that went with the headline: Mysterious energy burst stuns astronomers A headline like that really ought to involve bodies strewn about a remote observatory, and enigmatic alien forces roaming free, perhaps being hunted by menacing government agents. Sadly, it… Continue reading Reality Lets Me Down, Again
Lazy Video Post: Head Butt!
Via a mailing list, two giraffes beating each other up: I’m sure that an actual biologist could explain something about what this odd behavior signifies, and there’s probably some fascinating biophysics in the way that they whip their necks around like that. But, really, in the end, my main reaction is “Dude! Head-butting giraffes!” (YouTube,… Continue reading Lazy Video Post: Head Butt!