Month: January 2013
Bacon Log of Bacon
Groan!
(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today) A prominent broadcaster, on a big-game safari in Africa, was taken to a watering hole where the life of the jungle could be observed. As he looked down from his tree platform and described the scene into his tape recorder, he saw two gnus grazing … Continue reading “Groan!”
760,000
(from the depressing milestone dept.) Since January 16, 2006, over 760,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 10,000 spam comments since January 19, 2013 and over 152 times the number of legitimate comments posted to this web site since June, 2001.
The Country of Africa
Cage of Freedom
Jon Anderson & Giorgio Moroder – “Cage of Freedom”:
(more…)News for Nerds
J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode VII At long last, Disney’s “Star Wars” sequel has found its director — and it’s a bold choice, to say the least.“Star Trek” filmmaker J.J. Abrams is Disney’s choice to helm “Star Wars: Episode VII,” according to reports published by TheWrap.com and Deadline.com. MTV News has reached out … Continue reading “News for Nerds”
Quantum Mechanics (an embarrassment)
Quantum Mechanics (an embarrassment) – Sixty Symbols
(more…)Mmmm, Sheet Iron Sauce
What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Wanted
Larry Wilmore was so angry about having to work on Martin Luther King Day that he didn’t realize he was also missing the second inauguration of the first black president.
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