The Verizon FiOS commercial has been bugging me for weeks — I mean, really, spectrums (plural!?!) — but I had resisted writing about it. Then I found this post, which totally eviscerated the commercial at a level I could scarecely … Continue reading
It is spiteful and immature, but I’ve done this: placed pseudoscience-y books in more appropriate sections of the library/bookstore. I remember when Behe’s magnum opus came out, I would casually sneak it over to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi section. Unfortunately, it would … Continue reading
Just as I’m finally clearing my head from last week’s endless Stars and Stripes Forever-laden fireworks displays, over at the New Scientist’s wonderful Space Blog, Maggie McKee (by way of NPR) offers an historical note about the March King‘s other … Continue reading
Over at the National Center for Science Education, Daniel Phelps takes an exhaustive look at the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum, complete with evidence refuting evolution, ark construction, Adam and Eve diorama and a section linking Darwin to the Columbine … Continue reading
…long live Octosquid? Here’s an update from National Geo on our tentacled friend. It seems that he might not have been an entirely new species, but a member of a species that has been seen before yet never named. Poor … Continue reading
I worked the night shift for a year when I was in college in the 1990s, during which time I became hooked on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast program. Bell was a black helicopter-type conspiracist until the Oklahoma City bombings, … Continue reading
Technically, I still have a few pages left of Dead Man’s Song, but it is my lunch break, so I thought I’d throw in a quick review. Ahem. In essence, damn you Jonathan Maberry, you did it to me again. … Continue reading
In celebration of Heinlein, a tribute to a master from a master. Spider Robinson eulogizes Robert A. Heinlein in 1980: You can’t copyright ideas; you can only copyright specific arrangements of words. If you could copyright ideas, every living SF … Continue reading
A nifty name (Ollie Kottke works, really) and a neat trick (I managed to do one once when I was 11, then puberty hit and I could never balance again).
…why, it’s the 2007 Octosquid. Not a major scientific achievement, by any means, but a neat find that goes to show the riches the sea has hidden from us. But local scientists are nevertheless fascinated with the tentacled creature that … Continue reading