December 2007
17 posts
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“On the House side of the Capitol, Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of...”
– New York Times, “Gone for the Holidays, but Leaving a Light on (Got It, Mr. President?)”, 12/21/2007.
Barney Frank may be my new favorite congressman.
The Civil War in Four Minutes →
Microformat Encoding and Visualization - Opera... →
Opera Developer Community article: Microformat Encoding and Visualization
Brian Suda waxes on the the potential for interesting visualizations of microformat encoded data. Saved By: mslack | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, suda, visualization, timelines, graphs, charts, maps, tumbl
25 Documentaries "they won't show you on... →
I’ve seen three of these, and hoped to see 3 more that never made it to the local independent theater. Hopefully the remaining 19 are also good.
Have a jolly godless Christmas, all! →
PZ Myers on atheists celebrating Christmas.
AIM logs from 2005
Charles: If I dig from my front yard, I end up somewhere in the middle of the ocean
Slack: I know
Slack: which begs the question... if you dig a hole, and dig it right (insulated from magma and so forth, what happens to the ocean?
Slack: would it drain to the center of the earth and stop, or, would the weight of the remaining ocean on the surface be sufficient to push it through the earth? Could we end up with a water filled tunnel through the earth? Could your front yard become beachfront? How will this effect property values? local tourism? Michigan could be the third and fourth coast. the coffee place would have to change its name
Charles: LOL!
Charles: For so many reasons
“As we are preparing to launch the new site, I want to make sure that we have our...”
– Oh, really? You’d like that? Well, that’s what eveyone else wants too, so tough shit.
Canadian pig farmer found guilty of 6 murders →
Just like Brick Top told us in Snatch: “be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm”
FAIL.
Each year television viewers emerge in January from the traditional December blizzard of holiday specials and college football bowl games seeking new comforts from their favorite comedies and dramas, shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Two and a Half Men” and “House.” “Two and a Half Men”? “TWO AND A HALF MEN”? ...
“Claiming the Golden Compass “promotes atheism for kids” [is more...”
– The Onion AV Club
“We also demonstrate the ability to easily flow mammalian (Chinese Hamster Ovary,...”
– Shrinky-Dink microfluidics: rapid generation of deep and rounded patterns
I realize you’re scientists and all, but the first thing you used for testing was hamster ovaries? Did you just happen to have a jar of them on your desk or did you order them special for this? How do the hamsters feel...
“I remember when life was easy; when the only question I worried about was...”
– Dexter, Season 2, Episode 10
Sometimes it takes a serial killer to make you realize how easy you’ve got it.
“He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A...”
– Astronauts test sex in space - but did the earth move?