It's early in the semester, chaos has broken out all over (did I mention they 'upgraded' Blackboard again?), so we did what you do. Sent out for Chinese food.

The Peanut got this in his fortune cookie:
Your lucky SAT answers are: a,c,d,a,b,b,c

Can we count all the ways that is a wrong thing?

mood: flabbergasted

Opportunity: it's not a rover, it's a damn energizer bunny.

Designed to last 90 days and travel 2/3 miles, it is now 7 years old, has gone 13 miles, and is making discoveries in areas the NEXT Mars mission isn't even prepared to tackle. If I had a hat on, I'd take it off to the little rover that could.

Ooh, sparkly!

Also, for anyone still wondering about that earthquake:


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The state of Virginia is sending its employees in the Eastern third of the state home at 3 this afternoon and telling all of us to avoid travel this weekend. What's happening where you are?

It's a rare day when I find an awesome piece of music. Two in one day is spectacular. But first, there's a trailer. Yeah, a trailer for a song. But not just any song:

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And now the actual song:

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This one is teachers versus the Secretary of Education, rap style:

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So Glen Beck had his rally in Jerusalem, where he said (among other things ( Read more... )

You know you've gone stir-crazy when an earthquake has you feeling nostalgic ( Read more... )

The video that is making the Minnesota Family Council crazy (which is reason enough to watch it, if it wasn't also sharp, fun and irreverent):

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Ramadan Kareem, for any Muslims on my flist.

On an entirely unrelated note, thatsnothistory has posted the highlights of Christian mass murders for Bill O'Reilly. Someone needs to teach the poor, deluded creature ... something. Anything, really.

Grayson lives: ‘Live fast, die young’ to save Social Security