Humor

A friend, John Kovalic, once quipped "I now have more social networks than I have friends." So for today, a trio of social media webtoons. The first is Cat and Girl, the other two are from ThisIsIndexed.com. Enjoy! Alex, the Daytime Astronomer ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 6 2009 - 10:13am

Looking at the world through aldehyde-covered glasses

I don't know what it says about me that I love this stuff. Probably nothing good. Perhaps Weird Al Yankovic could do a rendition of CCR's Fortunate Son. Some folks are born to test emission spectrums Ooh, those flames are red, white and blue And ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 6 2009 - 11:18am

Ten Laws Of Geekdom*

*Laws that should be formally on the books but sadly are only known in the collective Geek conscious. Matt Blum of Wired writes, "There are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that are useful to know because they tell you something a ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 10 2009 - 11:37am

Human Evolution: Smaller Brains

An article entitled " Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink " was simply too good to pass up. At first I looked for a correlation with news reporting (thinking about a station named after the genera Vulpes). Of course, one of the comments r ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Nov 13 2009 - 2:20pm

Moon Water Conspiracy

There was an interesting article " 'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon " which was also followed by " Water on Moon Propaganda ". While the former is interesting, the latter is quite entertaining. I tried to see if it ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Nov 13 2009 - 5:37pm

Sagan Man!

They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research. See more excellence at xkcd. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 16 2009 - 9:28am

Zen and the art of Computer Coding- or- "Do you want fries with that?"

To non coders, a computer program seems almost like a work of magic: somehow, a collection of simple words- like DO WHEN CASE FOR UNTIL CONTINUE- in a computer file can be "run" and will do stuff. ...

Blog Post - Keith Adams - Nov 19 2009 - 1:50am

Solving the chicken/egg conundrum and other such nonsense

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Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 21 2009 - 12:24pm

Three things for which I am thankful

I know Thanksgiving is tomorrow but I'm getting a head start, in anticipation of the food coma I assume I will be in tomorrow. In no particular order, I am thankful for: 1. Jessica Hagy, at Indexed. 2. Humor, especially the ability to laugh at one ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 25 2009 - 2:20pm

Darwin Vs Genesis: Literary Deathmatch

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species, The Star has decided to trash Darwin. No, they're not going creationist on us, but Stephen Marche argues that Genesis beats the Origin hands down as literature: ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 25 2009 - 5:53pm