. Proof of Nerd ID by Charles Cron HERCULES THE BEAR EDITION A grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball with its jaws. flickr.com photo credit: val_pisces76
. a blogumn by Zack Bunker Birth Notice Los Angeles, CA – April 24th 2009. Mass Hysteria American Today a baby boy by the name of Mass Hysteria was brought into the world by Dr. Media and passed into the loving arms of parents Jane and Joe American. He weighed 8.6 million metric tons and [...]
I’ve never seen Fiddler on the Roof, but this Japanese take on the Fid makes me want to see the English original. Thanks to Ryan Dixon from “Fierce Anticipation” for the heads up!
. a blogumn by R.B. Ripley There are few things that strike fear into my heart as quickly and deeply as math. My childhood was one long, unending math-based humiliation. To this day, I still refuse to balance my checkbook. It’s irrational, I know, but there’s little I can do. I was first scarred in [...]
I often imagine that there’s life on other planets, but like us, they don’t have the resources to leave their planet and come to, much less find ours. Then I imagine that they might know about us, b/c we send so many TV signals into space. Then I wonder what the aliens must think of [...]
Well, Monique from “Political Physics” guessed correctly that yesterday’s lyric was from “Ghetto Superstar,” but she didn’t get the artist: Pras. Which leaves you and CH tied with a split point. I’m getting the feeling that this week might end in tie, since even though it’s Black Artist Thursday, this is another song I wasn’t [...]
So I’m still on the fence about The Science of Sleep, but I find it fascinating that filmmaker Michel Gondry is offering to personally sketch a portrait of you based on a photograph that you send into his website for only $20. Is he being clever? Is he super-broke? I don’t know. But I’m definitely [...]
. a blogumn by Justin Time Spam, Spam, Spam… No, I’m not referring to “America’s favorite canned meat.” Sadly, I am talking about spam: everyone’s least favorite email – also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE). This kind of spam is back to 94% of all email on the internet, according to Postini data (Google’s [...]
Seriously, please don’t watch this UK Pfizer commercial about the dangers of rat poison in pills bought off the internet. It is beyond icky, and I feel sorry for UK’ers who actually got hit with this during the commercial break of their regular programming. Apparently, there have been a ton of complaints, and I can’t [...]
. blogumn by CH If you’re like me and come from a warm and sunny place, then you probably have fond memories of going to your Grandma’s house and sitting in metal patio furniture that would be so hot to the touch that it burned your skin. Well if you want to relive those memories [...]
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