With the end of the ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise and ‘The Stand’ no longer on his plate, director David Yates has revealed that his next project is a full length feature film of the long running British show ‘Doctor Who.’*
I would have thought there were already people on this, but I guess not.
So, here’s the crucial question? Who? (Would play The Doctor?)
Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any better, it does. There are now two new Skepchicks!
I have only one Salman Rushdie story, so I’ll tell it quick then point you to something you’ve GOT to see.
Continue reading I had no idea Salman Rushdie was a pseudonym
From April 1915 and over the next year, Turkey carried out a genocide of some 1 to 1.5 million Armenians living in Turkey. This was the latest and most significant of a series of smaller scale events that led Armenians to flee Turkey, and eventually, many arrived in the United States. This is considered in many history books (quite incorrectly) to be the first genocide of the modern era.
Continue reading Oscar the Grouch Was My Landlord…Until He Died
I guess you don’t want the Big Red X when you are kissing in space!
A friend of mine who is an excellent writer and critic, fellow blogger and social scientist, is trying to make ends meet by enhancing sales at the family business. Distracted by other things, I didn’t know about this until this morning.
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Bug Girl’s Talk fresh off the conference circuit:
Context, comments, more, here.
This is obviously a fake. Can’t be real:
Continue reading NASA fakes another video
Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “ghostbusters” running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he shows how his group, Improv Everywhere, uses these scenes to bring people together.
Below is a letter from the Amerian Academy of Pediatrics to the President of Delta Airlines. Apparently, Delta Airlines has decided to continue to show the video in question.
Dear Mr. Anderson,
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) objects to the paid advertisement/public service message from the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) being shown throughout the month of November on Delta’s in-flight programming. The ad urges viewers to become informed about influenza and how to stay well during the flu season without resorting to the influenza vaccine.
While hand washing and covering sneezes are parts of a larger strategy to prevent the spread of influenza, influenza vaccine continues to be the best way to protect against the disease. It is especially important in enclosed settings where disease droplets can easily spread to passengers sitting in close quarters, especially infants and children and those with special health care needs.
The AAP and many other child health organizations have worked hard to protect children and their families from unfounded and unscientific misinformation regarding vaccine safety. The influenza vaccine is safe and effective.
By providing advertising space to an organization like the NVIC, which opposes the nation’s recommended childhood immunization schedule and promotes the unscientific practice of delaying or skipping vaccines altogether, you are putting the lives of children at risk, leaving them unprotected from vaccine-preventable diseases. Diseases like influenza can have serious consequences. From September 2010 to August 2011, 115 children died from influenza disease, most of whom were unvaccinated.
The AAP’s 60,000 member pediatricians urge you to remove these harmful messages, which fail to inform the public about the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccine. Please do your part to help reassure parents that vaccinating their children is the best way to protect them from influenza disease, particularly during this busy travel season.
The future leader of the free world?
Would he have done that to a man!!??!?!???11!!??
The server upgrade for FTB.com is completed. If you are having any problems especially with comments that is because of leftover goblins in the system and that will go away. Or you could clear your DNS cache if you want.
The process was not easy and there were some tense moments, especially between the boss, Ed, and the IT expert, Matt, as documented in this video:
Continue reading Server Upgrade Completed
Awk…ward…..