This one's worth quoting nearly in entirety. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one whom it's been irritating.

Has anyone else noticed that newscasters and commentators seem to feel it is perfectly appropriate to refer to Hillary Clinton as "Hillary" while referring to every other presidential candidate by their last name, or first and last name ( Read more... )

If you find my anecdotes about students and academia amusing, you can also check out rateyourstudent - it's a little more depressing and reflective and a little less humorous than what I include, I believe, but still worth looking at once.

Blame goes to sclerotic_rings for pointing out lolscience to me.


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FYI, if you are a paid subscriber to LJ, you can now edit YOUR COMMENTS when they are the LAST in a thread (that is, no one, not even yourself, has replied to it).

For people like blue_102, gemini6ice and the_xtina, it's the shitty_advice community. Go wild.

For l0stmyrel1g10n: Phil Plait and Wil Wheaton apparently have mancrushes on each other. If I had your "no homo!" icon I'd be using it now.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/11/01/happy-wil/

And if you haven't already gotten tired of postsecret, these might do the trick.


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No I'm not going to lj-cut this.

The parrot_lovers community is really driving me nuts. The mods have a policy there that as long as something is not a direct attack it's okay, and indirect attacks are perfectly fine. So saying "that's a stupid thing to do" is perfectly acceptable, as is yelling at someone in ALL CAPS to "STOP BREEDING ( Read more... )

CNN reports that Wikinews reports that Nancy Benoit's death at the hands of her husband and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit was announced on Wikipedia prior to the police actually knowing about it. It's making my head spin. It's sad when a "trusted" news source is getting its news from wikis.