June 2009
230 posts
“For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a...”
– Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter
“Scientific tests prove bones housed in the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome are...”
– Pope: Basilica bones belong to apostle St. Paul
“[McCain’s advisors] can’t quite believe that for two frantic months last...”
– McCain campaigners allegedly called Palin ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
“No wonder everyone wants to be a banker, investor, or [insert beancounter here]....”
– Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy
“The withdrawal of American troops is completed now from all cities after...”
– Associated Press
“If only my son could have lived to see me exploit his death.”
– Imagining What Joe Jackson Is Thinking
“The first priority of Four Seasons is “the sanctity of the brand,”…. So...”
– NYTimes.com
“Mr. Madoff’s crimes, the judge said, were “extraordinarily evil.”...”
– NYTimes.com
“Yes, the Ped Mouse does just what it claims to do: lets you control your cursor...”
– Grossest Mouse Ever
“Malcolm Gladwell is calling someone out for taking a simple concept,...”
– Condé Nast’s Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
“The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas...”
– BBC NEWS
“The hard truth, as any engineer will tell you, is that most defaults are never...”
– Triumph of the Default
“Writing is no longer a paid profession.”
– Letters on Salon
Color Timeline (from Kohler) →
If a public option would drive private health... →
“It was clear that he was in no condition to do a single concert, let alone 50....”
– Michael Jackson predicted his death six months ago
“[F]armed fish fed contaminated cow parts could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob...”
– Reuters
“Democrats didn’t build a franchise on holier-than-thou moral rectitude. The...”
– The Prurient Trap
“Their prototypes trap and digest pests like flies and mice to gain energy.”
– Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests
“US health officials estimate that at least one million Americans have been...”
– BBC NEWS
“James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has become an outspoken...”
– Hansen of NASA Arrested in Coal Country
“[P]sychologist Randolph Nesse has developed a hypothesis linking depression to...”
– Is Depression American?
White House Is Drafting Executive Order to Allow... →
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
“German geologists Thursday said they have discovered in India one of the world’s...”
– Rarest rock discovered from India
“Friday, June 26, the House of Representatives is set to pass an energy bill...”
– Congress set to vote on mystery bill
“[D]espite what Sally Kern would have you believe, there’s nothing mutually...”
– My Kinky Normal Life
“I found it at once loud and boring, like watching paint dry while getting hit...”
– Film review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
“if you freeze-frame the scene (in the first one) where one of the Autobots pees...”
– MetaFilter
“I remember when they offered me the role of Ripley I was a little ambivalent and...”
– Sigourney Weaver
“Helen Thomas, who hadn’t been called on, interrupted to ask Obama to...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“Anyone who believes that NPR is a “liberal” media outlet — and...”
– NPR’s ombudsman: Why we bar the word “torture”
“There’s nothing wrong with instilling fear,” he said.”
– Lancaster, Pa., keeps a close eye on itself
“238 members of Congress disagree that the Fed is “accountable and...”
– The Fed Needs More Accountability
“I’m confused. That revolution is being televised. That’s not right.”
– Some of this morning’s major Iran stories
“In other words, whatever her size, her figure was an unusually dramatic...”
– What Size Was Marilyn Monroe?
“When I hear the suffix “osexual” added to something, I reach for my...”
– MetaFilter
“Twitter is popular for one reason - its character limit allows the grammatically...”
– Comment on ‘Anyone else think media exaggerates the usefulness of Twitter?’
“And here you have it, the essence of what Lev Grossman, in Time magazine, called...”
– LRB · Jenny Turner: The Beautiful Undead
“[W]hat little I’ve been exposed to [of Twilight] so far tastes like...”
– MetaFilter
WatchBuffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)
“I prefer the Nomnomicon, the Book of Forbidden Eats.”
– The Necronomicon Files
“A culture of irresponsibility took root from Wall Street to Washington to Main...”
– Obama’s False Financial Reform
“You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that...”
– Gawker (Oct 2007)
