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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.

“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.

Through 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.

I… did not know this either… (click for full size)
Supposedly the monster existed because of a memory leak that would crash the game otherwise? Apparently even if you used this trick, you would respawn at the start of the hill eventually.

This 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.

Probably the best stop-motion music video I’ve seen since It Had to Be You.

Short 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.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html

ok 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.

http://ihavethepowerart.blogspot.com/?spref=fb