John Hodgman never fails to crack me up. His speech at this year's Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner is no different. It's not quite the caliber of Stephen Colbert's total eviscerating of then-President Bush, but, well, nothing ever is ( Read more... )

So, the group I work with is responsible for, among many other diverse tasks, reviewing the postings on the Fed Biz Opps website for potential opportunities that our researches might be interested in. We filter the categories as best we can, but you can't filter out all of the garbage ( Read more... )

A commenter on one of the many blogs I read had this gem to share, which I am in turn sharing with all of you:

If atheism and religion were sex ( Read more... )

So, I was innocently trying to find something to put a banana in, to keep it safe while in my bag. I have a small Timbuktu messenger bag with no internal compartments, and I put my U-lock in it while riding, since the bike mount that came with the lock broke. Not a big deal, and I find it actually helps my bag sit better on my back when I ride (I ( Read more... )

I used to ride my bike to work quite a bit, when we moved to Medford in September of '07, but I only got about a month or two out of it, maybe, before it started to get too dark on the bike path for my new-to-biking tastes, and I stopped for the winter ( Read more... )

So, I usually stay out of this bullshit, but when Oprah gets involved, a message suddenly gets a much wider audience, and it just bothers me to no end. Coupled with the fact that Caitlin told me the other day that one of her coworkers who left a while back to have a baby has still not vaccinated her child, and, I just feel a need to rant ( Read more... )

So, for those that don't know, my primary responsibility at work is proposal support--writing, filling out forms, submitting electronic proposals to the government, etc. One of the hardest things we struggle with is getting timely notification from the research staff that they intend to bid something, so that I can get them the support and ( Read more... )

So, tonight is setting up to be an interesting night of television, for those into that sort of thing. The series finale of Battlestar Galactica, the second in a two-part revelatory episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and the much awaited "Sixth Episode" of Dollhouse ( Read more... )

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Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

This has been making the internet rounds, so maybe you've already seen it? If not, prepare to be hilarioused. Yes, that is now a verb.

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