Or in other words, I found some linkspam from a few weeks ago, hope nobody notices how dated some of this is...

I remember the stories in the press about the Iroquois lacrosse team passports a while ago, but I hadn't realized they are considered one of the best teams in the world. Of course, that makes perfect sense, once you think about it. ( Read more... )

Man, it is hard to recall a day in which I did less than today. I folded a load of laundry, and started some potato-rosemary dinner rolls for Thanksgiving, and that's all. Ah, well: sometimes you just need a day to sit on the futon and rest your braincells.

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So, hey, this Doctor Who timeline is cool.

And this might be my new favorite tumblr. ( Read more... )

Well, now.

That was fun!

Crossposted from DW, where there are
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The New Yorker this weekend ran a contest to caption a photo of Bibi Netanyahu and his cartoon bomb. Quite entertaining.

Political scientist Nathan Kelly crunches the hard numbers on "takers" in the US economy. There's fewer than you think. And, frankly, the figure that shocked me the most was that 12.4% of the (18-65 year old) population has no ( Read more... )

I hadn't intended to do a linkspam today (I have to catch up from being out for training two days last week), but then I saw this Centaur skeleton, and realized I had no choice ( Read more... )

I suspect the folks who like to draw chibi!Sam and Dean felt a sudden disturbance in the Force this morning. ::blinks in bemusement::

If you've been watching Doctor Who this season, and worrying about the survival of POC one-off characters... you should.

And if you're a member of Girl-Wonder.org, Bill Willingham wants to gun you down. Well, ( Read more... )

Dennis Hartley at Hullabaloo gives us a run-down of recommended movies about nuclear war. Among the usuals (Dr. Strangelove, On the Beach) is a small film called Miracle Mile, starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. Huh: never heard of it.

Apparently Fortune magazine commissioned this cover [Big JPG] and then decided not to run it. I ( Read more... )

( Spoilers think physics only applies to other people )