…courtesy of author Philip K. Dick: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. Just a little thing to remember when you’re drunk on tryptophan or standing outside Walmart at 3am freezing your ass off.

thanks to twitter, I have learned that the whole Lolcat phenomenon is actually more than 100 years old. Turns out that the first person to take a picture of a cat and affixing a silly caption to it was Harry Pointer, a photographer from Brighton, UK. Starting around 1870, he began publishing his The Brighton […]

Space Beer. Living in the future is cool.

disempowered and ill-applied. skills lie fallow, time and effort squandered. quests charged already entrusted elsewhere. initiative quashed, despondence formented. what is worst is that no one notices.

A couple of posts ago, I tore apart a media article which seemed to report results from a scientific study, but really did no such thing, and in the attempt, did it really badly. This week, I found a good example of a short news report about a research study, and though it appropriate to […]

Looking at my hit stats for the last month or so, I’m getting a bunch of unfamiliar hits (most of it seems related to all the Doctor Who blogging I’ve been doing lately) from people I’m not necessarily expecting, so I though it might be a good time to sort of re-introduce myself, for what […]

A few thoughts on what America means from The Star-Spangled Avenger himself (as transcribed by J. Micheal Straczynski in Amazing Spider-Man #537): –click to enlarge– Given that the lettering in that panel above is a little tight, I’m just going to type that whole speech out below so it’s a bit easier to read: …Doesn’t […]

In my mind, there are few things that tell you more about a person than that person’s answer the following question: Which of these statements is more true? “Killing is bad, therefore we have laws against killing.” “There are laws against killing, therefore killing is bad.” Feel free to substitute “Killing” with any other social […]

There’s just something inherently fun about the fact that the following is the official phrase the Guinness Book of World Records uses to measure quickest texting records: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human” Not much else […]

as described by the always wonderful xkcd: