Buzz Aldrin is awesome. In this interview, he talks about space poop and calls going to the moon and coming back “a stunt”.

(by Metin Demiralay)

In addition to all the oil that’s leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon leak, there is also a methane leak, too. For some scaremongering about the possible ramifications of such a leak, click here.

Of course, all the scientists whose opinions are solicited may be loopy from the hours they are asked to work.

Dear headbangers, the British Medical Journal provides the following advice for the prevention of injury whilst headbanging:
- decrease your range of head and neck motion whilst ‘banging
- head bang to slower tempo songs
- replace heavy metal with adult-oriented rock
- only head bang to every second beat
- use protective gear.

You’re welcome.

If you’ve ever wanted to live in the Amityville Horror house, now’s your chance. All you need is a spare $1.15 million.

Just in case you were under the impression that you need to be polite and professional to get ahead in the workplace, you don’t. As Google and Viacom executives demonstrate.

Time magazine, in a hard-hitting feature, shares a gallery of pillow-fighting flash mobs from around the world.

(found thanks to Adam P Knave)

I am tempted to link to this next article via a photograph. But who needs a photograph when the words bedazzled taxidermy can be used?

Katie West is one of those people who is famous for being famous on the Internet. Read an interview with her about being an online phenomenon, and how it relates to her art and offline life.

So there’s this website called ReadWriteWeb. It’s a technology blog. Like many a technology blog, they occasionally write about Facebook, including this article about the Facebook/AOL partnership and the universal Facebook login. The funny thing is that people were landing on this page — I am guessing it was #1 on Google search for “Facebook” for a time — and thinking that it was Facebook. Click on the link. Read the message from ReadWriteWeb trying to explain to users that this is not Facebook. (Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook.) And then dig through (some of the) over 1300 comments from confused people trying to log into Facebook. It’s worthwhile. Or maybe just fun way to procrastinate.

Fred Morrison, the inventor of the frisbee, has died. Obituaries from the BBC and the New York Times.

Here at the Big Bad Blog, we have often been disappointed by science journalists. Most science journalism is decidedly hit and miss. Amy Tuteur of Science Based Medicine looks at the habit news organisations have of copying press releases, often word for word.

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