He is winning everything in sight

look at him go. Here from Reason TV is the catalogue:

HT to Veronique de Rugy

a decommissioned dimension

here is a life plan from Julie Neidlinger.
My plan is somewhere lost in abstracts, or a decommissioned dimension. It doesn’t buy groceries or dentist visits or thinks past age 40. It seems real and concrete somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m., or when I’m laughing with my friend and tomorrow doesn’t exist. Five minutes from [...]

how weird am I?

seriously, how weird am I?
I have been watching the dialogue between Mark Krikorian, Wesley Smith and Jonah Goldberg in The Corner with great interest. They are talking about vegans and vegetarians, morality and whether or not it is morally permissible to eat meat etc. Really good stuff and very interesting. [...]

the most thorough car road test ever

here is the most thorough car road test ever. Top Gear knows how to do it. just keep watching

faster please

Jonah Golberg has been the lone voice crying in the wilderness on behalf of proper funding levels for research into airborne-laser volcano lancing.
The only thing I can do at this dire moment is to add my small voice to Jonah’s and beg for more funding of this important project before it is too late. [...]

on the health front

On the health front, Joe Thorn reminds us that coffee is good, which is a good thing, because I love coffee.
I saw in the Men’s Health e-newsletter (I am not fit enough or cool enough to read the actual magazine) that those ubersmart euro-scientists are finding a link between coffee consumption and brain health.
Go check [...]

a little help for procrastinators

Men, it is now Christmas Eve and time to panic if you have not yet completed your appointed rounds for your brides. In my never ending quest to assist my fellow men, I have scoured the internet and discovered these ten gift ideas from a couple of guys that really seem to know their [...]

ouch, from the Onion

ouch! go take a look at this from the Onion and wince. It is satire, so maybe a little over the top, but too close to home on too many fronts.
What I’m trying to say is, don’t let the actions of a vocal few color your perceptions about what the majority of us [...]

now for something different

this is cool. and it is supremely, to use Jonah Goldberg’s word, nerdtastic.

confession

I have to confess an unhealthy level of affectionate attachment. Yes, I do. there is something in the world that I just love. I love it more every time I use it.
It is a software feature. It is a wonderful add on to the latest version of iTunes and [...]

ya think?

a clinic on restating the obvious from the NYT and Russia.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of political repression – a decision that helps Russia move toward closing a chapter in its tortured history.
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Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervor [...]

missed an anniversary

No, not THAT one. It isn’t till May. This one.
1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman
From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

Read it sideways. [...]

the front fell off

probably everybody has already seen these. But they were cracking me up.
First we have the mysterious case where the whale died of old age.

and then we have the equally mysterious case where a perfectly safe tanker had its front fall off.

Hat tip to First Things [...]

speaking of sin

what should we do with sin?

a science lecture

here is a bit of a genetic science lecture that explains quite a bit about genetic determinism. It is cogent and well reasoned.