I think people should be required to pass basic Physics before they get a driver's license.

Vector motion, momentum/inertia, velocity vs. acceleration/deceleration, centers of gravity, low-friction surfaces...

IT'S NOT THAT BLOODY DIFFICULT!!

The below-embedded video is Diane Savino speaking yesterday in support of the Marriage Equality bill before the New York Senate, and I think everyone in America should hear what she had to say. For the first time, I feel that a politician's views on a subject actually represent my own, and I wish I lived in her district, just so I could vote for ( Read more... )

My first link today is to The Oatmeal's How Twilight Works. I found it to be insulting and amusing in just the right combination, but also possessed of interesting and, I think, remarkably valid literary criticism.

My second link is NOT SAFE FOR WORK!! Oglaf is a strange, hilarious webcomic that hybridizes the fantasy genre and pr0n in a way ( Read more... )

...is teh_awesome.

That is all.

There is a little voice in my head that keeps saying things like:
"You could have phrased that better. Maybe try this..."
"Ugh... That word? Really?! C'mon, man! Shift+F7 is your friend!"
"Well, that whole paragraph is just awkward. It won't take long to clean it up ( Read more... )

From The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Trans. Lionel Giles, 1910):
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." -- Father Mapple, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

The totally awesome gyokutogirl, creator of the totally awesome webcomic, The Bunny System, shared something with us, her loyal readers, yesterday, and now I'm sharing it with all of you.

The Worst of the Time Lords

I'm on #54 of the 200-comic run, and I can't stop giggling.

Update @ 4:25p -- Ack! There's more than 200 of 'em! Yayz!

This webcomic amused me.

This webcomic also amused me, though it poked me in a tender place.

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