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• 12.20.07
  Santa Claus, Love Him or Hate Him
  Culture, News (0)

  It's been a rough year for Santa already, and he hasn't even been to work yet. First, he gets clocked in the face at a parade in Washington, lying unconscious for a block or two until his driver checked on him. Apparently somebody threw something hard at him and hit him in the face. A broken nose, two black eyes and a concussion that might just be cleared up by Christmas Eve if he takes it easy. Then, just to add insult to injury, he is flying into a children's party in Rio de Janeiro in a helicopter when somebody ...
  
  
• 12.20.07
  Party Countdown
  Family News (0)

  We are at T-2 to the Vallentyne Christmas Party and things are coming together nicely. Get yer darn self to our place for some fun and frivolity. Not that I condone this sort of thing, but I saw a little article that I thought would be appropriate to mention here. A list of the 5 greatest drinking stories in history, from what might be the largest drink ever mixed (there is some argument that this record doesn't hold anymore) to the great London beer flood of 1814. It's a great read, lots of fun. One of the commenters there ...
  
  
• 12.19.07
  Cells with frickin LASER BEAMS
  Apocalypse Soon, Tech (0)

  Faithful reader Wilson sent a link my way yesterday about how bio-tech is getting so good, scientist can create new custom cells by effectively programming their characteristics on a computer and "printing" them off.  The cell's common characteristics are being shared like chunks of code and are essentially freely available.  You can dream something up that has never existed before in nature and then just make it.  Talk about your God complex.  Stuff like this is already happening, with vats of cells engineered to make a synthetic fiber which is made into fabrics at DuPont.  Naturally there is some concern about ...
  
  
• 12.18.07
  I’ll take world geography for $200, Alex
  Culture, Stupidity (0)

  Canadians get only a very general overview of World geography in public and high school, so I was sure that I would do very badly at this fun little game.  Basically it gives you a country or city or famous landmark and you have to click on a map of the world as quickly and as close to the target as possible.  If you think it sounds hard, it's actually way harder than that.  Man, am I ever an ignorant git. Anyway, it's good fun and you might even learn something, I know I did.  Like where on the globe Easter ...
  
  
• 12.14.07
  Pixar Visual In-Jokes
  Culture, Video Diversions (0)

  Here's a great and exhaustive look at the jokes and references that Pixar seemingly stuffs all of their movies full of.  Some of these I have noticed, but the attention to detail here is amazing.  Check it out.  I was particularly surprised by the Pizza Planet truck thing.  Apparently the pizza truck from Toy Story appears in every Pixar feature movie produced to date.  Way cool.  Of course this only makes sense or is interesting to you if you have kids and have watched these things over and over.  Or if you just like animated movies, which I do.  Enjoy.  I saw ...
  
  
• 12.12.07
  Zombie folk song for the holidays
  Culture, Video Diversions (0)

  Ok, so it has nothing to do with the holiday season, but how else can I have a reason to post a song I really meant to have up here weeks ago? Re: Your Brains is a hilarious nerd folk song by Jonathon Coulton, an ode to the workplace zombie with note-perfect sarcasm: All we want to do is eat your brains We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes All we want to do is eat your brains We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise: If you open up the doors We’ll all come inside and eat your brains Gotta love that. ...
  
  

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