Massive internet problems at the moment so i don't knwo when i'll be back on or if even this post will get up. Wish me luck

Well, from the land of the flat, otherwise known as Ohio, a woman was arrested for putting her baby in the microwave. Yeah, you read that right and I knew of no good way to introduce this humrously. There really is no good way to talk about a baby getting killed because someone is too damn stupid to know YOU DON'T PUT BABIES IN THE MICROWAVE. The ( Read more... )

Earlier today, SETI, otherwise known as the Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence, announced in medium brazen fashion, they had an annoucnement for the media that was being put off for a week. Now, the announcement will be made sometime Tuesday, but they tell us it will be nothing. Of course, before they told us it was nothing, half the internet ( Read more... )

We've all seen, heard and read about how television reflects reality and how, on occasion, reality reflects television. Tuesday night's episode of Veronica Mars featured a sociology professor doing a variant on the famous Stanford Prison Experiment condcuted in 1971 by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo. The experiment was conducted to see how far people would ( Read more... )

This just in, relatively speaking, North Korea has apparently just had a nuclear test. This happened 10:36 am Local time (which puts it at 9:36 pm the night before EST). This was about 2 and a half hours ago and the test is being confirmed by high level US officials and a South Korea seismic measurement of 3.58 "event" in North Korea (edit, as of ( Read more... )

Ah, networking and popular music jokes. But the "blogosphere" yesterday was all abuzz about routing problems the American NorthEast near Boston getting to Google related sites. GMail, the world's most popular search engine and all related kind of programs were unavailable for about three hours. Which means all of people were unable to search the ( Read more... )

Today history was made, or rather stopped. President Bush issued his first veto concerning federal funding for stem cell research. This is the first veto of President Bush's administration and ends the longest streak without a veto in American presidential history, almost six years. President Clinton used his veto 38 times. FDR used his over 600 ( Read more... )

Sorry about the title, but the people who should be more offended are those of the pagan or wiccan (yes, I know Wicca is a type of Pagan religion, but you never know who gets offended at what) variety rather than the doctors. The doctors should be offended at the guy who calls himself doctor who wrote this theory. Apparently, wacky theories about ( Read more... )

No, this is not the usualy rant about the terrible things that people do to get votes or the terrible things people do while in office. This was inspired by an article on CNN about superheros and religion. There was a similar article on MSNBC. All the same points were made about Superman being a Messianic figure, despite the fact he was created by ( Read more... )

This entry was almost not written. This entry was almost impossible to write. For a couple of hours tonight, there was no power in my neighborhood. No lights were on, no one had any generators, which is hardly suprising given the urban nature of my neighborhood and a light chaos ensued. All the traffic lights of the largest street were out for a ( Read more... )