“Those who discourage your dreams likely have abandoned their own” Think about it, won’t you? (Carrie V has)

As someone who both liberally applies snark and sarcasm to everyday communication, and often has trouble recognizing social and non-verbal cues*, the research presented in this paper is really very interesting to me. The research describes a “novel Semi-supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification” in online user-generated content (this study made use of Amazon product reviews) […]

Having been a parent for more than a decade now, I feel that I’m at least a little bit qualified to talk about trends in parenting; I can’t say that as parents, my spouse and I have gotten everything right (far from it), but we’ve had enough practice over the course of three kids to […]

As I was distracted all day yesterday by work, potty training, and, uh…Final Fantasy XIII, I completely forgot to make mention of a terribly important and worthy observance, that of Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the achievements of women in technology and science. Ada Lovelace is widely considered the world’s first computer programmer, based on her […]

…I like paying taxes, with them I buy civilization. Words of wisdom from Surpreme Court Justice (and wearer of a truly fine and impressive moustache) Oliver Wendell Holmes. Think about it, won’t you?

I’m not feeling particularly ambitious today, so here’s a picture of a rat with a pan flute (which is almost a tin whistle): Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Fark dot com posted a link to an article in the Telegraph about how English store chain Asda (aka Walmart UK) has a habit of hiding away products with names which might be construed as purile double entendres so as not to provoke childish laughter from patrons. Amongst all the squirrel photos and links to […]

…that really makes today’s xkcd work.

Marvel at the spectacle of Patton Oswalt vs. John Hodgman in the Ultimate Science Fiction Trivia Challenge throwdown on WFMU’s Best Show: Wackety Schmackety Doo….That is all.

I saw this screencap image presented at wonkette today: To be fair, I don’t know the context in which this ‘question’ was presented, but really, in what context is that question not weird and inappropriate? But then, we are talking Fox News here, so who knows.