Posted in Birds on Aug 30th, 2008
What’s up, compadrés! It’s Waffles here — Butter and I decided to switch things up a bit, and do each other’s regular features this week. I’m going to bring you a wonderful web video about penguins. Well, one in particular:
Posted in Politics on Aug 30th, 2008
I really, really laughed (in my soul, where it counts) when I heard about this veep pick. It’s this tacit admission that for the GOP political office is nothing more than a spokesperson’s spot, a place for an empty suit to propagate memes from. Fuck, this woman admitted a few months ago she [...]
Posted in LOLCats on Aug 29th, 2008
My neighbor has this feeding dish for the wildlife, but it’s a tad too tall for easy access, so the critters usually end up inside it. I realize that sitting in ur food is only rong by human standards, but still.
Posted in Blog memes on Aug 29th, 2008
PZ passed along another blog meme yesterday: a check-off list of pop-sci books you’ve read. The list was originated by Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics. I’m kind of embarrassed that I haven’t read any more of these, but, of her original list, here they are:
11. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
18. A Brief History of [...]
Posted in WANT Wednesdays on Aug 27th, 2008
After I saw the 1962 film, That Touch of Mink with Doris Day, I knew I wanted to go to an automat. As far as I can tell, there are very few left in existence today. Manhattan’s East Village looks like it’s about it.
For those of you who don’t know what an automat is, it’s [...]
Posted in Humor on Aug 27th, 2008
The Boston Globe ran an article about how the English Language is a user-modifiable technology. For example, when you see a graded paper with a “Not a real word” proofmark on it, what does that mean? What’s going to happen?
Columnist Erin McKean says,
Whenever I see “not a real word” used to stigmatize what is (usually) [...]
Posted in General Science, University Life on Aug 26th, 2008
You know what’s annoying about the first day of classes? Not much of the time is spent on, you know, the content of the classes, or even on meta-level expostulation about the content of the classes. It’s all a drudging plod through the syllabus, complete with a bullet-pointed version of the grading system and [...]
Posted in Freethought, Web Videos on Aug 26th, 2008
This one’s for Butter. It’s a clip of Richard Dawkins reading from his hate mail. It’s funny to listen to Dawkins, with his careful baritone British accent read these things that are written, well, like a silly creationist who just learned to type.
Posted in Freethought on Aug 25th, 2008
I was going to get work done this weekend; really, I was, but then PZ posted a clip from The Atheist Experience, an Austin public-access call-in show, and Waffles and I got hooked. I haven’t been that entertained by something on television in a long time. (The Pegasus arc in season two of BSG—maybe.) [...]
Posted in Games and Quizzes, History on Aug 19th, 2008
If you know me, you know I’m not a huge sports fan. And you know that I don’t care for math. But, strangely enough, I do appreciate something that is prevalent in both of these fields — statistics. The interwebz have made gathering, processing, and displaying large amounts of statistical data. Here are a couple [...]
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