I’d no idea that some states were passing legislation officially denying climate change. Apparently South Dakota is the latest. The obvious precedent is the evolution debate but I have a difficult time understanding why people would inherently disagree. I did once have someone tell me, during a discussion on climate change, that it was a political issue and, as such, we would never agree, which flummoxed me at the time as it does still.
Nay
March 9th, 2010South Park
March 3rd, 2010“We then talked about cat orgies until Matt changed the conversation back to the political interpretation of the show, which was probably good for this interview as a whole, but disappointing on a personal level.”
In time for the new season of South Park starting shortly, a brief but interesting interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone largely focusing on the politics (or lack thereof) of South Park and angry reactions.
Assassins
February 16th, 2010Through the magic of airport, hotel, and mall security cams we get a video of a team of 11 (probably) professional assassins tailing and murdering a Hamas official. The video’s a little long, but it’s some pretty crazy stuff… multiple teams of lookouts, distractions, changing disguises in the elevator… basically everything I’d ever dismissed as being crap made up for the movies is apparently not.
Skifree
February 9th, 2010X Comet
February 3rd, 2010This is a cool article/pictures of a supposed comet collision at “hypervelocity,” a word which again reminds me, in conjunction with other recent posts, of Calvin’s excellent suggestion of renaming the Big Bang the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” It doesn’t mention any proposals to change “hypervelocity” to “insane unthinkable instant death speed” but it makes it sound like the discovery was something of a “wtf” moment for astronomers.
Bad Apple
February 2nd, 2010Probably the best stop-motion music video I’ve seen since It Had to Be You.
First Bill Watterson interview in 15 years – Holy Crap!
February 1st, 2010The Plain Dealer (Watterson’s hometown paper) has the first interview with Watterson in 15 years!. It’s a satisfying interview that isn’t marred by its brevity.
Put a ring on it
January 22nd, 2010Short but interesting, here’s a series of visualizations of what it would look like if the Earth had rings a la Saturn. The perspective would change relative to where on Earth you were, etc. Sound optional.
360 degree interactive video of haiti
January 22nd, 2010Sweet Fantasy Art
January 20th, 2010ok actually it’s all “He-man” inspired, and it’s all pretty awesome. I’d seen one or of these before making their rounds on the internets, but I’d never seen this huge collection of high-res awesomeness.
