PhD, illustrated.
(The Water Cube from the Beijing Olympic Games, now a Water Park. Via My Modern Metropolis.)
This just in: Dogs in the workplace make workers more productive. I hope this means that there will be an office dog soon. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for a mastiff.
It turns out that today’s pop songs are awesome — just slow them down 800%.
You can, apparently, win a Pulitzer Prize for drawing political cartoons. You cannot, apparently, put Pulitzer Prize winning cartoons on the iPhone.
(For the second day in a row, we have a reputed source, but no idea who to credit.)
Trying to evade capture by the police in Argentina? One strategy that has been successful is to disguise yourself as a sheep.
In the United States, a court has ruled that the normal rules for searching computers do not apply to those “crossing a border” — even when it is just a blatant attempt to avoid applying for a search warrant, or the border in question is along an Interstate between Los Angeles and Phoenix.
We are keeping it short and sweet thing morning …
Warren Ellis asks: How much information do you eat?
I have to wonder — if time is money, how much did this fourteen cents cost? Between the woman fighting for her fourteen cents, the company (and parent companies) handling her calls and refusing to give it to her, and employees at the paper following the story … that could be closing in on thousands of dollars, right?
A British man is reportedly disgusted after discovering what he claims to be pornographic imagery on SWEET wrappers. (Here we copy the Daily Mail and put the word “sweet” in all-caps. We figure it must be important somehow. Perhaps to convey outrage. But why be surprised? They’re German sweets. Be happy there’s no candy bukkake.)
My friend Maria is taking a sabbatical to pursue her chess dreams. Check out her blog, and help her raise money for charity.
Depression may not be a disease or a disorder, but have real benefits as well as drawbacks. Studies are showing that depressed people are more capable at resolving complex problems, suggesting that it is an evolved response to problems which require long periods of uninterrupted thought.
