Soup is good food for thought

A friend of mine (a very clever and witty person) has had several poems published at Very Bad Poetry (“the last refuge for the world’s worst poetry”). This is my favorite: A Bowl Of Friendship Soup By Ceejay Writer I want to fly away with you In a shiny spoon-shaped ship Off to a planet [...]

Natural selection: Yes, we can!

Mike Rosulek, computer science graduate student at the University of Illinois, has designed a set of images, based on the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey Obama image, to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth. This is my personal favorite, in part because of the (presumably unintended, though Rosulek sounds like a Czech name, so perhaps it was [...]

Untapped renewable energy source

Vivolium: “as useful as whales, but infinitely more abundant.”

Economics for Dummies (i.e. Everyone)

(Thanks to Crooked Timber for the tip.)

I’m an RTFOÜ. What are you?

According to the Breyers-Devere Probe of Human Worth, I am a Relativist Team-Player Intellectual Pessimist Übermensch. That sounds about right.

An all time high in low comedy

Best “Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke” post ever.

Satire or sexism?

The latest issue of Field & Stream has this doosie of a letter-to-the-editor: I was reading the latest issue of F&S and realized that you were putting a lot of material about women in your magazine. You should be running full-page ads telling sportsmen to write to their congressmen and get them to pass laws [...]

Illegal immigration takes its toll in the corporate suites

In a special report on “Immigration: The Human Cost“, the Onion News Network addresses the plight of corporate executives losing their jobs to low-paid illegal immigrants. (Thanks to TomPaine.com for the tip.)

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