Check out the homepage of http://www.xkcd.com/ today, redesigned in honor of geocities shutting down.

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2348.html

I'm slightly more than 100 pages into Motorcycle Maintenance. So far, I find Pirsig nothing but annoying ( Read more... )

CTA is partnering with igo. This is pretty cool ( Read more... )

"However, I must decide this case not on sentiment, but by analyzing the evidence," Hastings wrote. "In this case the evidence advanced by the petitioners has fallen far short of demonstrating such a link."http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/autism.vaccines/

oh gosh. I'm never going to get anything productive ever done again.

This website is a collection of blog posts from around the web that discuss peer-reviewed research.
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Because my gas station is 10 times cooler than yours. Also, I think I'm getting a turtle. Or being given a turtle by a friend who doesn't want the thing anymore. A 7 year old Red-Eared Slider. Did you know Red-Eared Sliders can live 30-40 years??! My dad says "Do you really want a turtle for that long?" Perhaps he does not realize the awesomeness ( Read more... )

This dinosaur comic is absolutely brilliant ( Read more... )

I read xkcd from the livejournal RSS feed. There's always lots of comments and, inevitably, someone always comments: "I don't get it," and then everyone else proceeds to try and explain the comic to the non-geeky person ( Read more... )

Walmart employee trampled to death by huge crowd.

This whole article reads like something straight out of the onion. Only it's not.

People disgust me. Seriously.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They ( Read more... )