Category Archives: Mind-blowing Miscellania and other Neat Stuff

Post-Race Doomsday Detonation: Catch the (Shock) Wave!

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Who wants to check out the raps of a pissed-off, punk-rocking, straight-edge, vegan eating, 31337 typing, Pilipino activist blogger and scholar? I do! And so you do you God damn-it! The power of the simulacra … Continue reading

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Ridiculously Cool Image of the Day

A quadruple transit of Saturn as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. From left to right, the moons are Enceladus, Dione, Titan, and Mimas. (Via Bad Astronomy)

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Daily Dose o' Cute

Today is my birthday (25) and to celebrate I present to you all…

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Cro-Magnon Park

Remember John Tierney? Sure you do! He was the glibertarian columnist for the New York Times who got bumped down to the science beat, where he could expound on why global warming isn’t real. Because that’s science! Anyhoo, Tierney noted … Continue reading

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Wow…

A great little didy about the history of the internet in neat little animated form.

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I glance at the back of the frozen lasagna box and cringe.

It also brings to mind the Hawaiian restaurant sketch from Monty Python’s “The Meaning Of Life.”

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Penguins Are Gay Parents Too

I like reading this story and hoping that somewhere, perhaps in a better world than ours, Rick Warren’s head has exploded. A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeat- edly stealing eggs have been given … Continue reading

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Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

This is to all those bloggers and commenters our there who are all connected to each other in one way or another and to all those folks on this blog whom I was able to meet in person recently.  Great … Continue reading

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One of those "Americans Don't Know Nothing" surveys

It’s 33 multiple-choice questions, mostly about basic US civics, but straying a bit into economics. You can take the quiz yourself by going here. They gave the quiz to a representative sample of Americans (or at least, of Americans with … Continue reading

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The Long Tail

The seas were higher in the Cretaceous period. When last the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the Rocky Mountains were a sea dividing western North America from the east, and the inland sea flowed right into Hudson Bay, dividing the northernmost … Continue reading

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