video of GOP audience cheering while ranting lady calls Obama a Kenyan.

whoa there, crazy lawyer lady…

questioning the fundamental nature of evidence

"Unfortunately, the Pentagon has virtually made a cult of the PowerPoint presentation."

everything sucks. there's work to be done!

Amazon deletes George Orwell books from Kindles without notice or explaination.

"From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff … (and) has hairy strands on it."

An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.

Dr. Wolfram, may I mention a word to you? That word is MySpace. If there is any such person as this average person, she has a MySpace account. Does she generate customized nutrition labels? On a regular basis, or just occasionally? In what other similar activities does she engage – monitoring the population of Burma? Graphing the lifecycle of stars? Charting Korean copper consumption since the 1960s? Perhaps you should feed MySpace into your giant electronic brain, and see what comes out.

The problem with translating 'alien' writing is that we can only decode it using our Earthly intelligence.

"you're going to hate it."

One of the most succinct summaries of why beautiful, comfortable, secluded, tiny, tiny little frisco is so goddamn annoying