My favorite comment on free speech in America is, of course, from xkcd:

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I will collect links later if I can find them -- most blogs I've read about STID I picked up on Twitter, so don't hold your breath. I have, however, read blogs about:
The science (Pretty sure it was Phil Plait)
The Political Message (Some guy on Slate referred by Phil)
WTF No Women in Charge in the Future? (Felicia Day)
Dumbing Down the Franchise ( ( Read more... )

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To spam the readership, because if you're already an xkcd fan, you know about the new Tuesday "What if...?" feature and if you're not an xkcd fan, I hope it's because you're one of today's 10,000 and not because you tried it and thought it too weird to exist (which it kind of is, but that's the point) and the "What if...?" feature is a weird up on ( Read more... )

The oldest Mayan calendar yet found goes past December 12, 2012. I haven't read the whole article, but it looks like we get another seven thousand years or so. Plan your retirement accordingly!

I appreciate the efforts of the CSM, but had already gotten the cosmological information needed to shut my lizard and mammal brains up from the incomparable ( Read more... )

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I'll quit with this one for today, because if I did them all y'all'd hunt me down for dinner:


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And I think of Rodney McKay:


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