Facebook seemed to be working fine this morning. Then I tried to respond to someone's message. And now, for some reason, it's jumping to some bizarre spam-filled page called "TryGames Europe". Anyone else having trouble with it?

Two weeks ago it was cold enough to be snowing in the morning, even if the snow didn't stick, and frosty enough in general that my fingertips with their eternal set-on-outside-temperature thermostat were like ice cubes. You know -- somewhere around 31 to 36 degrees ( Read more... )

Caught this through BoingBoing. It's a YouTube video documenting the, uh, pastime of anvil launching. Which basically is taking a bunch of black powder, putting it between two anvils and... uh... well, you kind of have to watch the video.

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It's very... kinetic. *grin*

For a long time, I've been hesitant to shop at Whole Foods groceries. Partly that's because their prices for their "healthier" organic produce and whatnot are ridiculously pricy, leading them to be widely referred to as "Whole Paycheck Foods". Partly that's because of their draconian anti-union biases, wherein they have actually fired employees ( Read more... )

You know, I've never read any John C. Wright books before. And after having read his extensive bloviating post on homosexuality effectively being a perversion equatable with bestiality, incest, polygamy, and pedophilia pretty much solely because it doesn't have the underlying purpose of popping out more dogmatic, ignorant, overeducated, thesaurus- ( Read more... )

( Heroes spoilers for last night. )