Q4 2009 has not been good to True Believers of Anthropogenic Global Warming so far. Two big revelations have cast a shadow on, as far as I can tell, basically every piece of science1 supporting the theory that human-created greenhouse gasses are having a catastrophic impact on the planet. Breaking the Hockey Stick First came a must-read [...]
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I’m busy digesting the meat-splosion that resulted from the programmer’s weekly trip to the Brazilian BBQ near the office. We tried a new venue today which was alright, but I think we’re going to stick with the old standard in the future. I also have to prepare myself for Mexican Food Night1. While we’re talking about [...]
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This week’s required reading is as follows: New Ocean Forming in Ethiopia — Mother Nature’s contingency plan for melting polar ice caps. In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two [...]
There are many things on the internet to read. Here are two of them. Charlsie sent me a link to an article on a NY Times blog that pretty accurately describes a big chasm between two groups of people I know that plays out daily on my facebook newsfeed. It’s interesting to see people whose lives [...]
For all of the good that civil rights crusaders have done over the years, one of the few disservices I believe they’ve rendered to our society is the vilification of the word “discriminate.” At its core, “discrimination” is not inherently evil. In fact, unbeknownst to many, nary a day goes by during which we don’t discriminate: [...]
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You know there’s a prosecutor somewhere in Maryland who is going to be telling this story at Bar Association mixers for the rest of his life: Accepting a plea bargain that her attorney described as unprecedented in American jurisprudence, a 22-year-old Maryland woman yesterday agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of other defendants [...]
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Someone got the bright idea to translate an episode of Cribs from whatever language the Ying-Yang Twis were speaking into honest-to-goodness English. The result is hilarious. If the video isn’t big enough to read the words on the bottom, you’re missing out. Once you’re done laughing at the translation, watch it again to get a feel [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Five points to anyone who finds three people to recreate this in a bar tonight and uploads it to YouTube.
Here’s a giant list of things you should have already seen on the internet: YouShouldHaveSeenThis.com. There were five or ten things on that list that I hadn’t seen before, like George Lucas in Love. There were also a few old favorites like Bubb Rubb and gay Mount Everest, but there were some left off, like The Song [...]