What will science think of next?
Will it be elastic water? Nope. Already done.
(by Alex Wild)
On Facebook? Learn how to use it properly.
In England, a recruiter wants to put out an ad for a reliable worker — they are told they cannot, as the job description would then discriminate against the unreliable.
In an incredible breakthrough, scientists have discovered that it is inadvisable to eat red hot chili peppers after anal fissure surgery. A quick question — would YOU sign up to be a participant in such a study?
To date, I have not bought an eBook reader. That may change in 2010:
(The Skiff Reader)
In news from the War on Terror, a California airport was shut down due to a passenger carrying honey. Two officers were hospitalized and treated for inhaling honey fumes. Seriously. Charges have yet to be laid against the honey-carrying passenger.
The Bloggess shows us why voter-driven awards are sometimes inaccurate.
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I love my Roomba. Not only does it clean the floor, but it protects me from snakes. |
| Scientists must now be on the lookout for fake conferences. Apparently the con artists out there have decided to aim themselves at the most skeptical group they could think of. |  |
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Like museums? Like steampunk? Go to Oxford. |
| Conservative Christians have been doubting evolution since the day before Darwin came up with it. Now Muslims are starting to do the same thing. Please, people — could the atheists stop claiming that evolution proves religion to be wrong (it doesn’t), and religious folks stop pretending that evolution cannot be true (it is). |  |
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Denizens of Montreal: Be happy for the presence of Concordia University in your city. They are bravely protecting you from novelists. Novelists who are interested in bilingualism. And who take pictures. Or at least have pictures taken of them. Or at least allow others to take pictures of them. |
| Some breasts are too big for China. |  |
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Book titles, if they were written today. I think this would make a fantastic Twitter meme. |
| For those of you who do not have Twitter accounts, be warned: The police can arrest you for failure to Tweet. |  |
Look out, Australia! Feral camels are out there, and laying siege to small communities! Will yours be next? Live in fear, dear Australians.
According to this article, there has been approximately one new crime added in the UK every day since 1997. While this might be a completely untrue fact — I certainly hope it is — the fact that I can even wonder about it worries me. What are these new crimes? Why are they criminal acts? Why weren’t they covered by previous laws?
The private e-mails of some scientists who study climate change have been leaked, revealing that their a bunch of human beings. Essentially, scientists are assholes, sometimes. I am still unsure as to why those who claim that climate change is not happening see this as a victory, but then again, I don’t understand those people at all.
