(via Buzzfeed)
Question of the Day
Aug 9, ’10
1:44 PM
What’s your favorite afternoon snack?
2pm is Red Bull o’clock for me. It gives me that push I need to take me through the rest of the day (and by the time I’m crashing I’m stuck on a commuter train anyway.)
Heifetz plays Paganini Caprice No. 24
Aug 9, ’10
12:07 PM
They call this music? No autotune? No sampled drum tracks? FAIL!
Conservapedia vs Theory of Relativity
Aug 9, ’10
10:53 AM
Conservapedia, the knowledge latrine of the internet takes on Einstein:
The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.[1] Here is a list of 22 counterexamples: any one of them shows that the theory is incorrect.
Here’s one of the examples:
9. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.
(via Reddit)
Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty
Aug 9, ’10
9:51 AM
From Mother Jones:
It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) had convened a small meeting with donors who had contributed thousands of dollars to his previous campaigns. But this year, as Inglis faced a challenge from tea party-backed Republican candidates claiming Inglis wasn’t sufficiently conservative, these donors hadn’t ponied up. Inglis’ task: Get them back on the team. “They were upset with me,” Inglis recalls. “They are all Glenn Beck watchers.” About 90 minutes into the meeting, as he remembers it, “They say, ‘Bob, what don’t you get? Barack Obama is a socialist, communist Marxist who wants to destroy the American economy so he can take over as dictator. Health care is part of that. And he wants to open up the Mexican border and turn [the US] into a Muslim nation.’” Inglis didn’t know how to respond.
(via Dangerous Minds)
Kurt Vonnegut – How To Get A Job Like Mine
Aug 9, ’10
8:29 AM
I’ll give you part one but you have to hunt the other 4 parts for yourself.
This is a lecture Vonnegut gave at Albion Collage where he received a honorary doctorate in 2002. The lecture’s title is “How to Get Job Like Mine”. This tape was donated to the Art Science Research by mr. Vonnegut.
(via Kottke)
