Do you guys know we just passed thru a BLACK HOLE in space?
When Firefox starts up, this extension automatically fetches Abe Vigoda’s current status, and displays it in a small panel on the status bar. It periodically does so again every so often, so that you always have relatively recent information on Abe Vigoda’s status.
I’m going to have to learn to write Firefox extensions — you have to like a browser that lets you add cool and useless features.
(via Pharyngula)
Fundies Say the Darndest Things! — Holy crap! This site would be hilarious if it wasn’t for the fact I’ve heard and read such stupidity myself. Here’s some of my favorites from the November archive:
Gravity is NOT a theory. It is completely understood.
[link] I guess I missed the big announcement that general relativity and quantum physics have finally been reconciled.
One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn’t possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it. [emphasis added]
[link] …giant outside source of energy — like the f%$king sun?
Having assumed that people have a general knowledge of basic alebra. I shall attempt to prove God.
Well all know that the earth sits at a certian angle on its axis. How could this have been done with the big bang theroy?
Scientist have proven, if the earth was off its axis or not a the PERFECT angle we would burn up due to the suns position.
Proof?We know that the earth rotates around the sun in a elipse form. (alerbra word)
For elipse to be an elispe it has to have TWO FOCI (man this is making my head hurt) Which makes sense with the gravational pull around the sun. However, what doesn’t make since is there is only ONE foci being the sun. Yet the earth still revolves around the sun in elispe form. Explain that one. How can the earth due this with an exact elipse form without another foci?God.
bascially, A= axis B= Balence G= God
A+b=G
simple enough?
[link] I can’t follow this proof, but then again, I lack a general knowledge of basic alebra (or is it alerbra?).
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(solen from slobak)
Get drunk in 30 minutes or less:
| Sayings: | |
| “EVOO” | 1 drink |
| “Sammie” | 1 drink |
| “Healthful” | 1 drink |
| “Stoup” | 2 drinks |
| “GB” | 2 drinks |
| “Spoonula” | 2 drinks |
| “Fry-o-lator” | 3 drinks |
| any of the above followed by an explanation of what it stands for | +1 drink |
| “Yummo” | 1 drink |
| “Delish!” | 1 drink |
| “Awesome” | 1 drink |
| “How _____ is that?” | 1 drink |
| creates an all-new and completely unnecessary abbreviation | whole drink |
| “Garbage Bowl” | 1 drink |
| “Garbage Bowl” as a verb | 3 drinks |
| Presentation: | |
| repeats herself | 1 drink |
| talks for so long without taking a breath that she nearly runs out of air | 2 drinks |
| makes an awkward, spastic gesture with her arm | 2 drinks |
| voice cracks | 2 drinks |
| forces a laugh at something not funny | 2 drinks |
| mispronounces “foreign” words such as “paprika” or “tapas” | 2 drinks |
| is visibly flustered | 3 drinks |
| Cooking: | |
| comes back from refrigerator carrying too many ingredients | 2 drinks |
| drops something on her way back | whole drink |
| fails to provide a measurement and tells you to “eyeball it” | 1 drink |
| provides an obviously wrong measurement, e.g. “about a tablespoon” while she dumps in a half-cup of something | 2 drinks |
| uses a “secret ingredient” | 2 drinks |
| the “secret ingredient” is nutmeg | 3 drinks |
| mentions “the thing that makes you go Hmmm” | 1 drink |
| “the thing that makes you go Hmmm” is nutmeg | 3 drinks |
| creates a “healthful” meal that clearly contains over 50g of fat | 2 drinks |
| makes a “gourmet” dish out of cheap ingredients (e.g. Tiramisu with nilla wafers and whipped cream) | 3 drinks |
| expresses how good something tastes while she’s still lifting fork to her mouth | 2 drinks |
| takes such a big mouthful of something it takes several seconds before she can talk again | 2 drinks |
| ruins something and tries to play it off as no big deal | 3 drinks |
| Travelling: | |
| leaves a crappy tip | 2 drinks |
| rudely shoves her nose in something to smell it | 2 drinks |
| claims a dessert by itself is somehow a legitimate lunch or dinner | 2 drinks |
| wears anything midriff-revealing | 3 drinks |
(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today)
A man was playing golf one day when a little frog hopped out the water at a water hazard and croaked, “I am a magic frog, and since you are the 10,000th person to play through here, I’m prepared to offer you one of two magic gifts: First, for a whole year you can have the most fabulous sex life that anyone ever had; beyond your wildest dreams. Or, second, for a whole year you can be the best golfer the world has ever known. Which do you prefer?”
The man thought a bit and said that he’d take the golf. Well, the man holed his wood shot from where he was, completed the course in an average of 2 per hole, and went round in 22. Quickly he attracted the attention of the sports world, and became the world’s best-known golfer, setting course records wherever he went.
A year later he was playing the same course inhabited by the frog, and at the water hazard the frog hopped out and said, “Well, the year is up, and you now revert to the 18-handicap player you were before. But tell me, I was a little surprised that you chose the golf — I take it your sex life is outstanding?”
The man said, “Well, I have no complaints in that department at all, which is why I chose the golf.”
“How many times did you engage in sex last year?” inquired the frog.
The man thought a little and said, “Oh, eight or ten times, I guess.”
“Damn,” said the frog, “that doesn’t strike me as very satisfactory.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” replied the man, “it doesn’t seem so bad for a Catholic priest from a little town in South Dakota.”
(via email)
This result might mean something in some sort of bizarro world…
The Prisoner ‘set for TV return’:
Sky One is said to be planning a new series inspired by the original which had Patrick McGoohan as a former secret agent trapped in an isolated town.
The show will not take place in the famous setting of the original – the north Wales village of Portmeirion – industry weekly Broadcast said.But it is understood the themes of paranoia, conspiracy and identity crisis would remain.
Damien Timmer, who has been lined up to executive produce the show for Granada, told Broadcast the new series would take “liberties with the original” and would not retain its arty feel.
“Although it will be a radical reinvention, it will still be a heightened show,” he added.
The original Prisoner ran for 17 episodes on ITV from 1967.
Bill Gallagher, the writer of the BBC’s crime drama Conviction, is reported to be writing the new version.
I’m not sure how I feel about a new version of The Prisoner. The original was about as good as television gets (except for the series finale). I suppose if it will be as good as the remake of Battlestar Galactica it will be worth watching. In the case of Battlestar Galactica, the original series was total crap, so there was not much expectation the remake would be any good. A new version of The Prisoner will have to be pretty damn good to live up to the original.
(from the yet another reason AOL sucks dept.)
AOL Music: History’s Greatest Album Covers — Well maybe three of these are actually decent album covers, and some of the others belong on this list.
(via Eschaton)
Holy crap! The Republicans are sure scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill out congress.
representative jean schmidt (R-Ohio):
You know, you all are not getting the big picture. The big picture is that these Islamic insurgents want to destroy us. They don’t like us. They don’t like us because we’re black, we’re white, we’re Christian, we’re Jew, we’re educated, we’re free, we’re not Islamic. We can never be Islamic because we were not born Islamic. Now, this isn’t the Islamic citizens. These are the insurgents. And it is their desire for us to leave so they can take over the whole Middle East and then take over the world. And I didn’t learn this just in the last few weeks or the last few months. I learned this when I was at the University of Cincinnati in 1970, studying Middle Eastern history. And I was told by a very valuable professor, one that I still remember, Wie Zuefabushi (ph). He was Palestinian.
things schmidt didn’t learn at the university of cincinnati:
- when you’re talking about a person the word is muslim not “islamic.” “islamic” is the adjective you use when talking about other things that are not people. for example, “islamic architecture.”
- islam accepts converts. that’s why it’s the world’s fastest growing religion right now.
- there really is no such thing as “islamic citizens.” usually the adjective modifying the word “citizens” is a nationality (e.g. “american citizens”, “iraqi citizens”) and there is no country of islam. it is possible to use a religion as a modifier (e.g. “jewish citizens”) but you at least need to use the word to refers to people of the faith, not “islamic.” you wouldn’t say “judaic citizens.” i realize this is similar to #1, but it’s still bugging me.
- as far as i can tell, the “insurgents” have not ever expressed a desire to take over the world. most seem to be concerned with iraq, although some have advocated imposing their strict brand of salafism on the “islamic world” (i.e. countries with a majority muslim population). some go beyond that too, and advocate a religious government only the places that currently have a majority muslim population, but also any land in the world that was once muslim-ruled (e.g. places like spain, portugal, parts of southern italy and france, the balkans, northern india, western china). but again, even among these most radical members, reconquering sicily doesn’t seem to be a major concern as much as overthrowing the rulers in lands where the current population is majority muslim and kicking out the israelis from palestine.
- “wie zuefabushi” is a pretty unlikely name for a palestinian. there’s no semitic root in “zuefabushi” no matter how it’s spelled. and i’ve never met an arab named “wie” (or zuefabushi). also, there seems to be no sign of anyone with anything close to that name who ever taught at the university of cincinnati. at least not by googling every possible variation of spelling i can think of. maybe someone else can do a better job at finding him.
I wonder if the people in Ohio’s Second Congressional District are regretting not electing Paul Hackett…
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