… not the whole thing, but some good bits:

The Actual Words of Afroleninist Barack Hussain bin-Obama’s planned speech to the School Children of Amerika have been obtained by this blogger, and I have few comments on them.

Continue reading The President of the United States is a Mean Ugly Communist and Stuff →

What happens when a little kid is not afraid of heights at all?

What happens when a little kid IS afraid of heights, and all?

Back to back essays worth reading at Quiche Moraine.

Devorah Bennu is the pseudonym for the pseudonymous blogger kown as Grrrrrrrl Scientist, of Living the Scientific Life. In the ongoing contest to send a blogger to Antarctica, she has sat in third place, just a few dozen votes behind Don Osmond (who is, indeed, related to the original Mormon Singer, Donny Osmond) for several weeks now.

Now, I have to tell you, I have a lot of friends and colleagues who are in this contest, and I’d love to root for ALL of them, but Devora is the only one with a chance of taking out the two people who are ahead of her, and she very much deserves to go to Antarctica. And I don’t mean that in a bad way.

Can we please cough up a couple of hundred votes for her now, to push past Don, and then, maybe you should visit this blog post at Pharyngula and remind people there (by leaving a comment) that the Pharyngulistas have a job to do!?!?

Thank you very much.

Ah… Now, I get it!

An oldie but a goodie:

Well, tonight we had a modest little party at the lake to celebrate Amanda’s completion of the last requirement of her Master of Biological Science Degree. This is what teachers call a “content area” degree. In other words, it is not an education degree, but a degree in the actual real world content, in this case, biology (as the name of the degree strongly implies). This is a fairly impressive thing for a teacher to do, and she did a good job of it.

Ah, I remember well, that on our very first date we talked about the idea of her getting this degree, and I encouraged her to do it. (You know about that first date if you read this … )

I’m sure some of her “capstone” research was secret, so I can’t tell you much about it, but it has to do with combining body parts of different species to achieve some sort of interesting effect and then make graphs of it. The ultimate outcome will be to stop aging and cure disease and stuff.

So, CONGRATULATIONS AMANDA!!!!!!

To the extent that one would have booted such a machine.

Britain’s oldest original computer, the Harwell, is being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is to be restored to working order.

The computer, which was designed in 1949, first ran in 1951 and was designed to perform mathematical calculations; it lasted until 1973.

Details here at the BBC

The tie-dyed shirts really make the Mentos thing work work….