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“Blue Violet,” meet “Red Violet.” You guys are brother and sister. That means no hanky panky. And your mother was a big whore.

Now that’s some funny stuff right there.

Now they get a little harder. Can you Handle It?

I made it to 55 a couple of times. That last question always seems to be insanely hard. Maybe I could do better if I’d actually been alive for more than a couple weeks in the 60s. Via

Wow! this story is so freaking cool I can’t even believe it. Yeah science!

It sure would be nice if the US could be leading the world in Stem Cell research instead of losing our lead on the future under the iron fist of luddites.

I love, love LOVE(!) the idea of Hamlet - The Text Adventure.

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According to some guy named Converse who did studies about 50 years ago, and the New Yorker story The Unpolitical Animal, only about 10% of people in the US have a clear understanding of what the various parties and candidates stand for.

Even when people think that they are thinking in political terms, even when they believe that they are analyzing candidates on the basis of their positions on issues, they are usually operating behind a veil of political ignorance. They simply don’t understand, as a practical matter, what it means to be “fiscally conservative,” or to have “faith in the private sector,” or to pursue an “interventionist foreign policy.” They can’t hook up positions with policies. From the point of view of democratic theory, American political history is just a random walk through a series of electoral options. Some years, things turn up red; some years, they turn up blue.

It’s interesting. My knee-jerk reaction is to reject this as a bunch of condescension. I imagine the thought process behind writing this going something like “Why, if they were thinking then obviously they’d think like me.”

It would explain some things though. How anybody could be undecided at this point, in this election cycle is completely beyond me. Of course I’m even more amazed that if polls are to be believed, half of the those that are going to vote are going to vote for a president who is so clearly wrong for this country that it’s roughly equivalent to putting your hand on a burning stove after watching 10 other people do the same thing and have to be rushed to the hospital. I just can’t imagine how the choice could be any more obvious, and yet…

There’s something I love about the videos over onWhat Happens If I…?. Is it the wanton destruction? Is it the juvenile joy of discovery? I’m not sure, but whatever it is, please bring me more.

This morning, I took a drive up to Agoura Hills to check out the Paramount Ranch. It was kind of cool. It’s a federal park where they shot a whole bunch of westerns and stuff. The group I went with had a federal park ranger to give us a tour and put on a big dog and pony show. It was sort of interesting. I’m not sure if they only do that for large groups of if there are always tours going on, but it’s kind of a fun thing to do if you’re looking for something different.

Mostly, I went to take pictures.

Weird, I was just talking about Bugs Bunny today, and what do I stumple across but Bugs Bunny’s Home Run Derby? I can smoke Tweetie Bird with no problems, but I can’t seem to get past Fog Horn Leg Horn. And, don’t even get me started on the Tazmanian Devil.

Wow, I had no idea that there were so many Macintosh Key Sequences.

The crazy cats over at Red vs. Blue have developed a satirical tutorial (QuickTime) to let everybody know the differences between the real world and the Internet. I don’t know. The Internet still looks pretty good to me. I want it to be true, so it is. Via