From the Department of Wave-Particle Duality ( Read more... )

I was just reading this article about "why you shouldn't diet like Gwyneth or detox like Demi."

Gotta love the first comment that popped up at the end of the story:

If I were famous I would tweet that I was on the dog crap and mop water diet just to see how many people would then go out and eat dog crap and chase it down with mop water.

:-P :-D

I don't normally get into celebrity gossip, but this one comes as a shocker: Al Gore and Tipper Gore are separating ( Read more... )

Matt Lauer: "Every time you shoot an arrow, it sounds like a rocket launcher going off. How'd you do that?

Russell Crowe: "I had a great relationship with the sound effects guy."

-- Today show, May 4, 2010 (talking about the 53rd -- or thereabouts -- "Robin Hood" movie)

Soupy Sales has died. For some reason I remember him mostly from his late 1960s-early 1970s appearances on "What's My Line?" Obviously he was famous before that.

cz_unit has some theories on thisFor a couple of months in sixth grade, I kept a pet toad and named him/her/it (gender never determined) Soupy Sales. Only pet toad I ever had. My mother made me ( Read more... )

Saw that movie yesterday with the boy toy. Of course it was filled with gustatory delight (and no maggots -- they must have been in the book version). But I also saw it as a positive tale about the power of blogging. Julie was a would-be writer who had a soul-sucking lower-rank bureaucratic job, even if it *was* for an ostensibly good "cause" ( ( Read more... )

The Boston Globe, temporarily saved from extinction (at least for now), says that the new "Star Trek" movie is "the best prequel ever." Huh! Guess I'll have to see it for myself....

Now must run and bring my shiny new psaltery strings to Three Left Feet practice....

Read at will. Or not.

lesliepear's alma mater will have the greenest roof in town.

Interesting article about the Hubble constant. (I wonder how all those undergraduate labs on the topic are getting changed to reflect current data.)

A story that at least a couple of men on my f-list might be interested in: could polygamy be the key to long life? And hey, ( Read more... )

Longtime Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman has penned an essay about the "self-service economy." Nowadays we do a lot of things that other people used to do for us -- pumping gas, printing our own boarding passes, etc. But she drew the line when her husband suggested that they go to a restaurant where you get raw food and a hot pot and cook the ( Read more... )

... that America got into the space race.

Just thought I'd point that out.

One can't be reminded of that too often.

(x-posted to spaceagers)