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Does anyone have any idea why the Michael Moore film about health insurance in America, Sicko, got nowhere near the same amount of publicity as Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11? I’m not asking how you feel about the message / content of any of these films. I’m just trying to understand why [...]
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To Coors’ horror, Zima proved most popular among young women — a demographic that, while generally fond of getting tanked, just doesn’t have the same thirst for hooch as its male counterpart. And once the ladies took a shine to the stuff, the guys avoided Zima as if it were laced with estrogen.
from The [...]
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Lifehacker has a great list of tips to help maximize your influence in the election. The most important one is the last one, and it’s the one I’ve been trying to explain to people for months.
McCain is not going to do anything about speeding on my street and Obama is not going to cut [...]
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Just for fun, let’s take a look at what has happened the last few times I’ve taken a vacation.
Late August, 2005: I go to Europe to celebrate my girlfriend’s birthday. Katrina wipes out New Orleans.
October, 2007: I go to Hawaii to get married. My good friend, mentor, and business partner dies [...]
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I simply cannot have been the only one who watched the vice-presidential debate tonight and thought that Palin’s answers were eerily similar to this famous speech. I mean, really? Really? Nucular? Poliferation? Infastructure? Here’s a random quote I grabbed from the transcript:
John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of [...]
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Stocks skidded Monday, with the Dow slumping nearly 778 points, in the biggest single-day point loss ever, after the House rejected the government’s $700 billion bank bailout plan.
The Yankees will sit out the postseason for the first time in 15 years.
Vanderbilt is in first place in the SEC East.
Time to start stock-piling water, kids.
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Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports criticizes IOC President Rogge:
Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesn’t have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games.
All the promises made to get these Games — on Tibet, Darfur, pollution, worker safety, freedom of [...]
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Mrs. Greenburg said in an interview that the delay was doubly unpleasant for her Maine coon cat, Sammy, who howled through the entire experience in a pet carrier in the back seat.
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The comments on these amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider are almost as awesome as the machine.
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