The Star-Ledger reports that 95% of NJ bats died off this winter from a fungal infection known as “white-nose syndrome.” That sounds pretty damned scary, until you read the article and find that the headline was taken from a single reported hibernaculum (cool word meaning place where critters hibernate), the Hibernia Mine in Rockaway Township. [...]
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Why I don’t go into the water Britain …Reason #1,767
June 2nd, 2009
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The Telegraph reports finding a 600ft jellyfish crop circle found in an Oxfordshire field.
Kill it!!! Oh, wait…
At the end of the article, the writer oddly refers to an entirely different crop circle from last year, and reuses the quotes from a retired astrophysicist on how THAT crop circle encodes pi.
I had to re-read [...]
Black Sheep, THE best grossout horror comedy I’ve seen in years
March 16th, 2009
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This Saturday we were graced by the lovely Liz and her charming Frank. We provided the pizza (pi for pie day. Sicilian, of course, because pi are square. I’ll keep saying that until its funny.) and they provided the love, in the form of Black Sheep.
After seeing a trailer for it in front another [...]
“…we are all vainer of our luck than of our merits…”
March 3rd, 2009
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– Nero Wolfe.
Still breaking in my Sony Reader. Sure it isn’t as hip as the Kindle — and doesn’t have wireless — but it does what I want it to do very well. I’m on my third Rex Stout Nero Wolfe novel in the canon, chronologically, The Rubber Band.
Stout came out on of [...]
And Louie, Louie Gets Me Hot Just Thinking about It
February 24th, 2009
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Interesting press release in my morning Eurekalert! feed
In an article published in the April 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that teenagers who preferred popular songs with degrading sexual references were more likely to engage in intercourse or in pre-coital activities.
Already, with the euphemisms. What are pre-coital activities? Heavy petting? [...]
The Uninformed Critic Presents: Battle of The MST3K Stars
January 29th, 2008
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This is totally more Keri bait (dude, do you even read emails?)…but here’s proving that I can judge a book by its cover:
RiffTrax vs. Cinematic Titanic…Mike vs. Joel…
RiffTrax
Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
Audio tracks to be played while viewing DVDs
Advantage: New and dying-to-be-mocked films, Fred Willard, a library of over 50 flicks (including the Star [...]
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