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Don’t Panic!

Posted in Charlottesville, Mars, atheist, food, humor, science, space on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This tidbit came out a little while ago, where a state legislator in Illinois denounced atheist Rob Sherman as he testified against the state’s plan to use taxpayer money to help fund a church. From the article: Challenging Sherman, Davis wondered aloud, “I don’t know what you have against God….some of us don’t have much [...]

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Skeptics and Astronomy Humor

Posted in astronomy, humor, music, science, skeptic on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So it turns out that CLEANing and SelfCal-ing a faceted image over the entire sky takes a long time, long enough for me to surf the intarwebs while my program chews on my data. I revisited the Bad Astronomy blog, by Phil Plait, astronomer, educator, and UVa Astro alum! I was particularly interested in listening [...]

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New favorite webcomic

Posted in humor on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to a little April Fools prank by Randall Munroe of xkcd, I have a new favorite comic for my morning routine, Questionable Content. Check it out, especially if you like interesting plot lines, dry wit, and emo-kid bashing.

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iPod Humor

Posted in humor, technology on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From Lore Sjöberg at Wired… I finally bought a proper iPod, the kind that has a screen and comes with a jar of faux-hawk cream. I already had an iPod shuffle, but I never felt I truly belonged to the International Order of Dancing Silhouettes. It’s one of the first-generation shuffles, the white ones that [...]

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Something old, something new…

Posted in computers, education, humor, science on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So…. it’s been a while since my ramblings have hit the web, being busy, or pretending to be busy and all. Let’s ease into this slowly with a not very interesting (to me anyway) article on Slashdot about PayPal reminding Mac users that Safari is not equipped with anti-phishing tools. But what really made me [...]

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