If you’re anything like me, you have a bit of a thing for both astronomy and cthulu-esque art.
So why not combine the two this Christmas?
You might argue that it’s more squid than Elder God, but Lunar Escape by Hon Lam Chow is available from Etsy.
Apparently everything I’m bookmarking this week has no words. So … more pictures!
Steampunk gasmask by Bob Basset.
Star Wars Magritte thing from Sick, Sad World.
Webcomic is XKCD, by Randall Munroe.
If you know your organic chemistry (or would like to know your organic chemistry), you should click on this link to see organic chemistry explained through the base unit of Internet expression: the cat.
(Painting created on an iPad, by Don Shank.)
Fox News is, at times, painfully funny in its ignorance. For instance, Bill O’Reilly is apparently unaware that tides are caused by the moon, and insists that it cannot be explained.
The BMJ, last week, accused Andrew Wakefield of fraud. Here at the Big Bad Blog, we have seen a number of comments of the “about time” sort — almost dismissing the fraud as old news. However, given libel law in the UK, here at the Big Bad Blog, we feel that this is huge. Fraud is a deliberate act, purposely misleading others for material gain.
It seemed (to somebody without detailed knowledge of the particulars) perfectly plausible that Wakefield was just a poor researcher who designed his experiment to confirm his pre-established conclusions, and the sort of person who cannot admit that they are wrong. That the BMJ feels confident that his work was malicious and not well-intentioned (though misleading and of poor quality) is certainly newsworthy.
Imagine there is somebody who lives near your home who looks like you. Imagine they have the same name. The same job. A wife who closely resembles your own.
This actually happened to a pair of Graham Comries in Scotland.
(Yoda, by Daniel Polevoy)
Today’s discovery of the day is Atheists Never. Every time you refresh the site, it gives you something horrifying and/or stupid done in the name of religion, along with a link to the evidence that religious people performed such an act.
You might have already seen this — we appear to be about a month behind the times, here at the Morning Coffee — but here, Neil Armstrong explains why the first walk on the moon was so boring.
