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Holy bloody huge! Check out this “colossal” squid.

Calamari jokes aside, the article mentions they think this thing is only two-thirds is full size. Yowza. Suddenly some those sea monster stories start to make sense.

BBC [via Neatorama]

Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet.

Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is a website. Doh! Apparently I can’t Google as well as I thought.
You can also get MDIIC ice cream off-island; check out their locations page for a ton of restaurants and businesses where you Mainers and tourists can get yourself a sample. I highly recommend Blueberry Basil. It’s like Vosges chocolates in ice cream form.

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The WaPo weighs in.

“It’s terrifying: We’re doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied the city’s levees.

New Orleans repeats mistakes – washingtonpost.com

“You hear only one note, and you already know who it is,” he said. “So what I want to know is: how we do this? Why are we so good at recognizing music?”

Short on science but long on interest, this article explores the work of Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University.

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The gnashing of teeth at work tomorrow will be epic.

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None of my words, nor any of the video or pictures you’ll eventually see, will really bring you how bad it really is.

Scoble is in NOLA.

Wow, stunning.

Obese children, particularly girls, may be more likely than their peers to suffer from low self-esteem, research shows.

Feel free to leave your own follow-up research project ideas. Personally, I’m gunning for the lucrative “people who consume alcohol get drunk more often than teetotalers” NIH funds.
[via Reuters ] (?!?!)

Let’s hit the major stuff.

What’d you do?

Not a damn thing. J– and I stayed home, no family, no friends, just us and the pets. We got up on time and opened presents (more later), had cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and then farted around all day.

For dinner, we made a prime rib using a recipe from Simply Recipes along with some asparagus and two disastrous potatoes. Potatoes were justly jettisoned and a wonderful dinner was had.

What’d you get?

It’s not about presents.

Seriously, what’d you get?

Ok, maybe it’s a little about the presents. I got a kick-ass Dell 20″ wide-screen LCD. It makes me droll just looking at it. I kept my CRT so now I have two monitors.. I feel like such a geek. I also got a really cool stainless tea cup with an infuser and lid. Now I can finally have loose-leaf tea at work. J– also stuffed the bottom third of my stocking with enough candy to make any Halloween begger trick-or-treater weep.

What’d you get J–?

I bought J– a digital camera (which was wanted), a new alarm clock (which was needed), and, ironically, a tea infuser pot with some tea samples (which was gratuitous considering the amount of tea in this house).

We’re off to see my family this weekend; did the other side last night.

All in all a very enjoyable, quiet Christmas. No snow (yet), but we’re supposed to get a couple inches tonight.

Belatedly wishing you and yours a happy season as well. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.

One Word: U2charist. Seriously.

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