What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold!

What's faster than the speed of light? Quantum entanglement! At least 10,000 times faster.The extremely oversimplified background: Entanglement describes a state where the spin of two subatomic particles are linked: externally change the spin of one, and the other will change itself to match it. This ( Read more... )

Every time I try to get out of baseball--especially Mets baseball--it keeps pulling me back in ( Read more... )

Yesterday spacemanlove and I got the truck from the shop, running sweet as an 11-year-old truck can, and immediately put it to the test carting some new furniture Papa Doc had bought ( Read more... )

If you're a baseball player, you probably don't want your sporting nickname to be "Ugly."

Unless, of course, your given name is "Johnny Dickshot."

In which case you find the guy who nicknamed you "Ugly" and buy him a steak dinner.

I still don't know if I actually like Glee per se, but I like that it exists ( Read more... )

The finale of 24 was more akin to a season finale than a series. They'd run out of new ideas around Season 3.
( TELL ME WHERE THE SPOILERS ARE! )

( obligatory LOST responsum, spoilers to an extent )

There's every chance that the only good part of the LOST finale will be the surprise ( Read more... )

No surprises here: monocles are dropping and pearls are being clutched all around the great Tri-State Area at plans to build an Islamic center in the WTC neighborhoodCertainly, plenty of this "outrage" is just islamophobic counting coup from people who could care less about New York. But it's equally poor to believe the victims and victims' ( Read more... )

Chicagoans, here's yet another reason to be glad you didn't get the Olympic bid: no terrible mascotsLondon mascots Wenlock and Mandeville have great names. Thus ends the "praise" segment of this post ( Read more... )