If you're anything like me, you had no idea there was such a thing:


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A new result from astronomers who have spent years peering toward the center of the Milky Way has led to a startling conclusion: there may be billions of Jupiter-sized planets wandering the space between the stars, unbound by the gravity of a parent sun. In fact, there may be nearly twice as many of these free floating planets as there are stars ( Read more... )

Signed up for the GRE grad school entrance exams today. Pocket's a hundred sixty bucks lighter, or rather the credit card is a hundred sixty bucks heavier. Test is this Monday, just up the street from my apartment. Now to see about chasing down some recommendation letters, which I'm now wishing I'd have done a year ago.

One of my favorite blogs (Gin and Tacos) spends a lot of time harping about how baby boomers have basically enjoyed all the fruits of the post-WWII generation and left nothing for those of us who came later. That we all will be lucky to find full-time jobs with pensions while they'll all be enjoying their cushy retirements and, if the GOP gets its ( Read more... )

Happy absurd superstition day!

Never ceases to amuse me that after thousands of years of philosophical and scientific inquiry, we're still basically as superstitious as the ancient Romans.

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Three days after the death of Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin's official twitter page posted this:


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I've got a lengthy post brewing about the American right wing's ghoulish clamoring for the release of the photos of bin Laden's corpse, what's motivating it and how it relates to the fantasy genre (there's an angle, I swear). But I'm pressed for time at the moment so I'll go ahead and give the TL; DR version now: some of us wish we lived in a bad ( Read more... )

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