So the jackasses on the right have another pelt on their wall this week, thanks to NPR showing their belly like giant pussies. Jon Stewart nailed this last time, ink the dustup about Juan Williams: they keep bringing tote bags to knife fights.
Where are my two-fisted liberals, dammit? Is Rahm the only one made in LBJ’s image?
The Jeopardy champ did an “AMA” (which stands for “ask me anything”) over on Reddit. Take a gander. The guy’s got a great sense of humor, as is evidence by his username at Reddit: WatsonsBitch.
Oh, okay. Fine.
Jeff Bridges, about whom we’ve written before, shot a bunch of fine pictures on the set of True Grit. Enjoy.
This review of an apparently-famous Paris restaurant is as brutal as it is hilarious. from Vanity Fair.
It turns out that whole thing about space germs in meteorites?
Yeah, crap. P.Z. Myers explains:
[The Journal of Cosmology] isn’t a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth. It doesn’t exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern California (seriously, that was the address: “Northern California”), and self-published all of his pseudo-scientific “publications” on this web site.
Of the paper itself, Myers notes:
It’s a dump of miscellaneous facts about carbonaceous chondrites, not well-honed arguments edited to promote concision or cogency. The figures are annoying; when you skim through them, several will jump out at you as very provocative and looking an awful lot like real bacteria, but then without exception they all turn out to be photos of terrestrial organisms thrown in for reference. The extraterrestrial ‘bacteria’ all look like random mineral squiggles and bumps on a field full of random squiggles and bumps, and apparently, the authors thought some particular squiggle looked sort of like some photo of a bug.
The extended edition of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is available for pre-order at Amazon.
Heh.
It’s a smallish thing, but the new United douchebags running the show have killed snacks in coach as of March 1. I got pretzels on Monday; on my return flight on Thursday, there were none to be had.
I so wish Southwest flew to Wichita.
This has the potential to be a bit earth-shaking:
The buzz is building over a paper by Richard Hoover, an award-winning astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, concluding that filaments and other features found in the interior of three specimens of a rare class of meteorite appear to be fossils of a life form strongly resembling cyanobacteria. Chemical analysis, Hoover argues, shows no evidence that the fossils are of organisms that infiltrated the meteorites after they arrived on Earth.
If you’ve forgotten the brilliant pairing of DJ Format and Abdominal, allow me to remind you, starting with “We Know Something You Don’t Know“:
From the same record, there’s also “Vicious Battle Raps” the video for which is one long shot:
Sometimes, visual communication is just cool.
Mazda is recalling a bunch of cars.
Because they may become infested with SPIDERS that ultimately cause FIREY DEATH.
So I’m standing up a new Sharepoint 2010 server, and I get this when I point it to one of our database servers:
There’s so much wrong with this it’s not even funny.
Fuck whoever did this. I mean, seriously. This right here? This is why people hate you.
A crazy, brilliant dude decided to start with a DOS 5 virtual machine and install Windows 1 — and then upgrade it, step by step, all the way to Windows 7. Astonishingly, his DOS apps — Monkey Island and Doom 2 — survived the trip. (The brief mention of PIF files gave me the heebie jeebies, Dorman.)
Long, but worth it. Via MeFi.