I would have been happier without the background music, but at least she’s not you know who.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Knee Update
I was fairly optimistic after my recent doctor’s visit, in part because he was able to tell me that nothing bad was happening. I immediately started to make plans for a few short term changes in what I did every day to help with post-operative recovery, to be followed in a couple of weeks with more aggressive therapy.
The iPad and Skeptical Computing
I’m going to make an argument that you should buy an Apple iPad despite widespread rumors of hardware problems and despite widespread criticisms of its design as funky and flawed.
And by “you” I mean yooz guyz who are skeptics.
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Who’s gonna beat Michele Bachmann?
People keep asking this question, and now I know the answer.
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Science Blogs Takes Over Intertubes.
Science Blogs grows bigger. See this PDF file for details.
Also, tell us what is wrong with the graph!?!?
Do you have a terrible song stuck in your head?
Listen to this. Rinse, repeat. It will go away.
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Rochester, MN Marine killed in Afghanistan
A piece in the Star Tribune by my friend John Funk:
Friends and family members were grieving Monday for a 20-year-old Marine from Rochester, Minn., whose death Friday in Afghanistan was called “a horrible loss” by his family pastor….
Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Killings Video
A few years ago, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, working for Reuters in Iraq, were killed along with several other non-military personnel in a very badly botched US military operation. Much more recently, Wikileaks has released the half hour long video taken from one of the US helicopters involved in the massacre.
You need to go here and read the story, and watch the long version of the video (pasted below). Especially if you are a tax-paying US citizen, because this is your war. This is you pulling the trigger.
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Seventeen Women Beaten by Government Workers in Oxford Alabama over Fashion Choice
Oh wait, sorry, they weren’t “women” exactly …
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Sorry, Catholic Church, Imma let you keep being holy and all, but first ….
… you are going to have to take a century or two of snark from us atheists. Like this:
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Knee Update (or, “My leg, my leg!!!”)
… for those interested …
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Easy magic trick. Followed by hard magic trick.
Followed by really hard magic trick ….
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Easter Bunny Angst
Rube Goldberg Easter Egg
Things to Do with a Cadbury Cream Egg – watch more funny videos
Hat Tip: Ana
Apple’s MacBook Wheel will Trump iBook
They are calling it “The wheel, reinvented” and I think they may be right.
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