Lots of Somewhat Random Links
After not doing any non-baseball posting for awhile, I have something of a backlog of links, so here goes:
The Department of Homeland Security will be using a former lunatic asylum as its new headquarters. Supply your own comentary.
A hexagon formed on Saturn, which is interesting for reasons being, I am sure. More interestingly, the original USA Today caption called it a "bizarre six-sided hexagon." I've never found six-sided hexagons to be bizarre, myself.
A fun game of converting decimal numbers to binary and vice versa can be found here. Or is there something off-kilter about me enjoying that?
In celebrity news, Keith Richards snorted his dad. Given that celebrities are always trying to outdo themselves, I wonder what is next -- The Rolling Stones Cannibalism Tour: This Time It Really Is Our Last One?
In other celebrity news, K.I.T.T. is for sale. Apparently, without the voice of William Daniels, the man who, to me, will always be a car, a principal, and John Adams. He was also, like Reagan, head of the Screen Actors Guild.
In the final bit of celebrity news, Scotty is being beamed up.
Robot heads, gotta love 'em.
Lots of problems going on across the pond. Cheshire police went after an 11-year-old boy for calling a classmate gay. If schoolgrounds there are anything like the ones I grew up on, the police have their work cut out for them. Some teachers have stopped teaching about the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims. Good luck with that. A supermarket chain, worried that not enough people knew the true meaning of Easter, decided to teach the public that Easter eggs celebrate the birth of Christ. Well, it's the thought that counts, right?
A collection of great media-perpetrated April Fools' Day hoaxes.
What a Screwed up World We Live in Part 8,897,432,634: a Georgia man raped his 16-year-old daughter in a cemetary. Twice, apparently.
Yale apparently admits foreign students so they can burn American flags. Those that belong to other people, no less.
Iranian Jews are sticklers for following the teachings of Jesus.
The Kerry camp has started to say that McCain's people approached them about being Kerry's running mate. McCain denies it. I'm inclined to believe McCain, at least in this case.
Rosie O'Donnell is spreading conspiracy theories about WTC7. They're ably debunked by Popular Mechanics. Even aside from all the scientific reasons why those theories are wrong, there's the common sense one: why would the government bring it down in the first place. Honestly, I have my doubts whether half the nation even knows that it collapsed. And, frankly, those that do know about it generally don't care. Whenever the WTC attacks are mentioned, it's almost always about "the twin towers" and never "the twin towers and a third really large building". Do the people spreading these theories think that if only WTC1 and WTC2 had fallen, the American people would have just shrugged it off, but the collapse of WTC7 was a major call to action? Why would the government set up explosives and then wait to demolish it for several hours after the twin towers had collapsed (and it had been evacuated)? There's such a lack of not only scientific knowledge but common sense behind this theory that it boggles the mind.
An environmental comparison between the Bush and Gore residences. Show this to the nearest Gore-worshiper and watch their head explode.
The Supreme Court made another mockery of itself in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. For those of you who have never decided to pass your time by sitting in a law library, reading case law (math games, case law -- no wonder I'm a hit at parties), an excerpt from the Chief Justice's dissent which really highlights part of the wrongness can be found here.
A professor got called on his bias and responded in a less-than-kind manner. I highly recommend following that link to read his e-mail.
The Department of Homeland Security will be using a former lunatic asylum as its new headquarters. Supply your own comentary.
A hexagon formed on Saturn, which is interesting for reasons being, I am sure. More interestingly, the original USA Today caption called it a "bizarre six-sided hexagon." I've never found six-sided hexagons to be bizarre, myself.
A fun game of converting decimal numbers to binary and vice versa can be found here. Or is there something off-kilter about me enjoying that?
In celebrity news, Keith Richards snorted his dad. Given that celebrities are always trying to outdo themselves, I wonder what is next -- The Rolling Stones Cannibalism Tour: This Time It Really Is Our Last One?
In other celebrity news, K.I.T.T. is for sale. Apparently, without the voice of William Daniels, the man who, to me, will always be a car, a principal, and John Adams. He was also, like Reagan, head of the Screen Actors Guild.
In the final bit of celebrity news, Scotty is being beamed up.
Robot heads, gotta love 'em.
Lots of problems going on across the pond. Cheshire police went after an 11-year-old boy for calling a classmate gay. If schoolgrounds there are anything like the ones I grew up on, the police have their work cut out for them. Some teachers have stopped teaching about the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims. Good luck with that. A supermarket chain, worried that not enough people knew the true meaning of Easter, decided to teach the public that Easter eggs celebrate the birth of Christ. Well, it's the thought that counts, right?
A collection of great media-perpetrated April Fools' Day hoaxes.
What a Screwed up World We Live in Part 8,897,432,634: a Georgia man raped his 16-year-old daughter in a cemetary. Twice, apparently.
Yale apparently admits foreign students so they can burn American flags. Those that belong to other people, no less.
Iranian Jews are sticklers for following the teachings of Jesus.
The Kerry camp has started to say that McCain's people approached them about being Kerry's running mate. McCain denies it. I'm inclined to believe McCain, at least in this case.
Rosie O'Donnell is spreading conspiracy theories about WTC7. They're ably debunked by Popular Mechanics. Even aside from all the scientific reasons why those theories are wrong, there's the common sense one: why would the government bring it down in the first place. Honestly, I have my doubts whether half the nation even knows that it collapsed. And, frankly, those that do know about it generally don't care. Whenever the WTC attacks are mentioned, it's almost always about "the twin towers" and never "the twin towers and a third really large building". Do the people spreading these theories think that if only WTC1 and WTC2 had fallen, the American people would have just shrugged it off, but the collapse of WTC7 was a major call to action? Why would the government set up explosives and then wait to demolish it for several hours after the twin towers had collapsed (and it had been evacuated)? There's such a lack of not only scientific knowledge but common sense behind this theory that it boggles the mind.
An environmental comparison between the Bush and Gore residences. Show this to the nearest Gore-worshiper and watch their head explode.
The Supreme Court made another mockery of itself in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. For those of you who have never decided to pass your time by sitting in a law library, reading case law (math games, case law -- no wonder I'm a hit at parties), an excerpt from the Chief Justice's dissent which really highlights part of the wrongness can be found here.
A professor got called on his bias and responded in a less-than-kind manner. I highly recommend following that link to read his e-mail.
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