Did you ever wonder about what I do in my spare time? Did you ever wonder about The Eastern Pacific Black Ghost Shark? Well, these things are connected….

Continue reading Do you find science surprising? You ain’t seen nothing yet. →

I don’t want my plant twittering me. It is bad enough that they are alway staring at me. Especially the one in the kitchen.

Continue reading Plants should not tweet →

Roman Polanski has been wanted by the Las Angeles police since he skipped town a few decades back before sentencing on an “unlawful sex with a minor” charge. That was the plea he copped for much more serious rape charges. He has more or less ignored the fugitive warrants because for some reason you can rape someone in the United States and then live in France and that’s OK. Polanski was busted by Swiss officials when he went to Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award. He is expected to fight extradition.
Continue reading Roman Polanski may visit Los Angeles Soon →

…. of the blog Highly Allochon … Highly Allochthon … no, wait, .. Got it Highly Allochthonous.

We expect to have a new male baby on November 20th +/-. But we don’t know what to name it. Do you have any suggestions?
Continue reading Help us name our baby →

Its a 1980s dating video montage. I think some of these guys were left over from the 70s.

I guess I’d go with the Viking.

Bonus video:

Continue reading Why did somebody put this hilarious video on my facebook page? →

The detectives who waited on my doorstep the afternoon after Jake’s murder asked lots of questions, even if they were about Carla, and they listened very well. I was nervous at first, but once I got over the shock of seeing them at my door, I was telling them everything.

Enjoy a little free on line fiction at Quiche Moraine.

Is on Skeptically Speaking tonight. Click here for details.

This is the sixtieth anniversary of cryptography, according to one way of counting it that I’m sure lots of people don’t agree with. (I mean, seriously, I’ve SEEN the Da Vinci code, man.)

Anyway, here is a nice slide show, starting out with the Engigma, working its way through the movie “Sneaker” and eventually to “quantum cryptography”

The slide show is here.

Nobody knows. But, someone does suspect this is the case. (If it is true, and we don’t know, it pertains to LAST YEARs flu shot, and may or may not pertain to this year’s flu shot.)

However, it would seem that the proprietary publication process is keeping the information in private for now. David Dobbs has the story.

Yes, it is “National ‘Punctuation'” Day … in America! All day you should use “extra” [whenever possible] punctuation! It will help to #@%@^# swear now and then…!!!

The national “Punctuation ‘Day'” page is …. -> HERE!?!?

No one in this country should ever have no options for where to beg for heath care.

Is at Lab Rat. It’s a very good one, please visit, click on all the links, digg/stuble/\/. and so on.

(Notice how I escaped the slash in slash dot.)

M a-G vs. the Town of Bedford, New York. (See also this.)

While I was living in an Armenian enclave near Boston, this happened: A Turkish-American jeweler with a shop in Somerville was driving his car somewhere around Medford, and was ambushed. Several bullets were fired into his car, killing him and totally ruining the Cadillac. The Armenians partied, and the secret organization of assassins took credit.

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