Did the midnight showing of Watchmen last night ( Read more... )

http://www.xkcd.com/507

Holy shit. We really could.

Nate Silver over at fivethirtyeight has a really interesting post, wherein he describes the five most probable maps for a McCain victory (though he only had a 6.24% chance of such a victory when the simulation was run). The whole post is worth reading, but here's the part I thought was key:

Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be " ( Read more... )

Amy and I keep getting robocalls from the RNC on behalf of McCain-Palin ( Read more... )

Not completely safe for work - but worth watching, and worth passing along.

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Woohoo! Dar Williams gets some NPR love!

When you see this, post another Buffy quote in your own Livejournal. Let's see how long we can make it.

"Note to self: religion, freaky."

When your alarm pulls you out of a dream where you're eating fried chicken while watching Tenacious D perform in full Seminole war regalia on a pirate ship, you've pretty much set the tone for the whole day.

Double posting for double thinking.

So it occurred to me today how to explain to Joss Whedon why he was wrong about how he handled Zoe in the wake of Wash's death.

( Oh, hey, there's like spoilers for Dr. Horrible and stuff in here. )