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 […]
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 […]
“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. Link […]
The gnashing of teeth at work tomorrow will be epic. Link
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 […]
One Word: U2charist. Seriously. onegoodmove: This Week In God – Samantha Bee
300 Say They Got Ill From Olive Garden That few?
No, seriously. This time it’s not trading real money for fake property or fleecing some media company into opening a bureau in the game. Nope, this time it’s honest-to-simulated-God avatar rape. You even get of a Choose Your Own Deviant Sexual Adventure feel as well. There’s Victim, Rapist, or Participant, where you get to help, […]