So Franken has been declared the winner by the lower courts, but Coleman, the sore loser that he is (I have far choicer words), wants to push it to the State Supreme Court. This is expected and "sadly" within his rights to do. But it is only a delaying tactic to keep Franken from being seated. Franken will win at the State Supreme Court level, ( Read more... )

For your enjoyment, A mind-bogglingly bad description of a naked woman in some scifi/fantasy novel (found via Reddit): http://bit.ly/gTH6U

And then someone had to go and draw it: http://bit.ly/dBz4

The Japanese rock :) Where else can you expect to find a life sized gundam model all ready to be explored ( Read more... )

The NY Times has a really interesting graph showing the wage gap between women and men for a large variety for jobs.  It really kind of shocks me that this still exists and not because I don't believe it, I just can't understand why it happens and why business continues to perpetuate this difference.  The reasons (read: excuses) are no doubt ( Read more... )

I'm generally not a superstitious person in any sense of the word.  My one exception is for the rule of threes regarding bad luck/bad things.  I'm not one to fall into bad luck very often (I pride myself on being a rather lucky individual actually), but occasionally it does strike me and always in a turn of three.  Yesterday was the start of that ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett of Discworld book fame has been Knighted :)

I think that this is a wonderful honor to bestow on this wonderful author and fellow.  I love the discworld books like no other and take great delight in the wonderful humor and wit that Sir Pratchett imbues into his works.  I wish Sir Pratchett the very best and Congratulations! 

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/ok-what-the-f-is-this-movie-5825

You can thank marainsanity for inspiring me with her post here.  I didn't want to post-jack her so I figured this deserves a post of its own.  I mention marainsanity's post because it deals with religion and atheism, two topics I have far too much to say about.  And the link I came across (here) is about politics and religion.  Specifically the new (US)  ( Read more... )

I just checked on a replacement bulb for my spare projector (yes I have a spare projector) and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was now half the cost it used to be.  The reason I have a spare projector is because when I was originally looking for a replacement bulb (pre-emptively) the cost made it more worthwhile to consider a new ( Read more... )

This is pretty damn funny.  The music is by Marc Shaiman, who did the music for South Park the Movie (and so much more).

Prop 8 - The Musical