Trivia

What is the farthest point on the earth's surface from the center? Mt. Everest, you say? Nopers.

Mt. Chimborazo

The Republican Party doesn't want my vote

Apparently my desire to see like minded people represent me in congress and to see a more secular government makes me a danger to America.

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The Funny

There's a comedy blog I subscribe to called Photoshop Phridays. Basically the idea is that every week they have a theme, and people photoshop images to match it. It can be pretty funny. This week the theme was merging two movies together. My favorites were:

I finally found someone cooler than me

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Google labs invention

FINALLY

If only blogger had something like this, maybe I wouldn't make worthless posts at 1:00 PM on Tuesdays.

My last Will and Testament

This flu is killing me. I leave all my cool stuff to TC, all of my lame stuff to Al-Pal, and my Elly to Mz.

Love,
Dead JD

The future is hopeless

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Noise conducted a survey of 506 girls, ages 13-18 and asked the young ladies for their top career choice. (The girls were allowed to pick more than one career.) Thirty-two percent chose "model."

What is wrong with you people? Yeah, I said it, "you people".

The financial crisis in cartoon form

Because it makes you slightly less sick to your stomach when it's stick figures explaining it.

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Baseball and Books

A physicist makes an argument that baseball statistics are bullshit.
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/09/baseball_statistics_are_crap.php

Looking for new reading material? There's no better reading material than the books that THEY don't want you to read. Find some here

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm

Sadly, I only have one of these books on my reading resume.

Don't like physics?

Too bad. Read this anyway.

Chrome on linux

There's a linux port for Chromium (open source google chrome). It's slow and clunky, but it's a cool proof of concept. Check it out.

The worst thing to happen to anyone ever

I no longer get (free) cable. They turned off my free trial today.

Physics hasn't killed us all yet, but I still have hope

So, the LHC started up without destroying us all (Even though it's impossible, and even if it were possible, today's activity couldn't have caused it, for a variety of reasons.), but that doesn't mean we're in the clear yet. Interesting link to an article on a special astronomical phenomenon (That could kill us all. Especially babies and puppies.)

Girls are dumb

The most closely followed news subject for men is Science and Technology. The closest followed news subject for women? Celebrity news. HAHAHAHA. You suckers deserve to make 80 cents to my dollar. :p

My Two Favorite Hobbies

Video games are science

My favorite part:

At one point, Steinkuehler met up with one of the kids who'd built the Excel model to crack the boss. "Do you realize that what you're doing is the essence of science?" she asked.

He smiled at her. "Dude, I'm not doing science," he replied. "I'm just cheating the game!"

I really like that as a description of how science works and why basic research is so important. We learn the rules, and then use them to cheat life into giving us an advantage. If you don't know the rules, you'll never figure out how to cheat them. Therefore, fund the LHC and ILC.

Compelling Election related footage

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An interesting google hit

I am number 8 on a search for "rated r for strong sexual content" (w/o quotes) on google. Noice.

Upcoming movies

Pac man
Tetris
Minesweeper

Crappy Graphs

Funny site:
http://crappygraphs.com

You can also custom make your own graphs. Check out mine:
Physics
Maths

Error bars, plz

WTF, mate?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight 40 years from now, a government-funded study projects.

If the trend of the last 5 minute continues, I will have consumed over 50 lbs of food by the end of my shift tonight. Why aren't I on national news?