“Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.”
– Brian Cox referring to death threats sent to the LHC team
- Video: V for Vendetta in Kinetic Typography
"Are you like a crazy person?" "I am quite sure they will say so."
Tags: vforvendetta, typography, video, kinetic, comics - The death of a taboo
"One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old."
Tags: taboo, politics, rnc, republicans, attack, advertising, 9/11, gop, douchebaggery, terrorism, war, election, president, mccain, palin - Becoming an old (blogging) man
"It’s tough because I love blogs and I love comments in blogs, but I’m starting to think there’s this ‘new generation’ that has grown up online only knowing blogs as having snarky comment areas and never realizing it used to be a personal, intimate space where you’d never say anything in a comment that you wouldn’t say to a friend’s face."
Tags: blogging, comments, conversations, blogs, culture - A few words about writing.
Alice nails it. Don’t stress about quality or whether you’re doing it right. Just do it. "This is how the mind works to stop you from writing. Creating is scary, and your brain wants you to run from scary things. For some reason it forgets about the rewards that come from risk." I need to take this advice myself.
Tags: finslippy, advice, writing, creativity, creation, art, writersblock, fear, inspiration, iraglass - Maneuvering
"Which one is cooler? The ‘Picard Maneuver’ or the ‘Adama Maneuver?’"
Tags: pvp, comics, webcomics, picard, adama, picardmaneuver, adamamaneuver, startrek, tng, galactica, bsg, scifi - Google Chrome comic by Scott McCloud
Awesome. The Google team explains why their new Chrome browser is worthwhile, and Scott McCloud illustrates it.
Tags: google, comics, chrome, scottmccloud, webkit - McCain’s Voice Mail to Palin Leaked to Press
"Um, hi, Sandra, Sandra Palin, it’s John McCain calling… is it Sandra or Sarah? Senator Sarah Palin…. Governor? Governmor Palin!"
Tags: palin, mccain, president, politics, campaign, election, vicepresident, voicemail, satire - Don Lafontaine, 1940-2008
Awesome video of the man himself telling how he got into the voiceover business.
Tags: donlafontaine, inaworld, video, interviews, voiceovers, movies, trailers - Ugly Bags of Mostly Water
Greatest redirect on wikipedia. (via Jeremy Keith)
Tags: startrek, wikipedia, tng, uglybagsofmostlywater, human, redirect - iTunes Store - Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
W00t! The complete soundtrack is available on iTunes!
Tags: drhorrible, ftw, soundtrack, itunes - Russia’s Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger
Not a joke: "Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew… Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun."
Tags: putin, russia, amur, tigers, television, news, tranquilizergun, badass
The controversy about the possible connection between vaccines and autism has been in the news again lately. Portland is a sort of alternative-parenting Mecca, and I know people who fall all over the map on the vaccination issue. The only constant seems to be very strong feelings on all sides.
We talked to people who felt that the only rational approach was to not vaccinate your kids at all, just in case the vaccines were causing problems. Why take the risk? On the other hand, we spoke to people who felt that vaccinations are a kind of civic duty. If enough people skip them, outbreaks of disease will be more severe.
Personally, I dislike the extremists on both sides. Vaccinations, on the whole, are clearly a good thing, both for society at large, and for my family. And while I personally find it easy to believe that there is (or was) a link between certain vaccines and autism, the idea of not vaccinating at all seems like an overreaction to me.
The one piece of rational advice I received when we were making this decision was from a doctor here in Portland. He recommended that you get your child vaccinated, but not all at once. The traditional schedule has your child getting several different vaccines at once, which has the net effect of overloading their immune system. It’s not hard to imagine that a child with a temporarily overloaded immune system might have difficulty fighting off an infection. Whether that leads to autism or not, it sounds like something to be avoided.
We follow an alternative vaccination timetable which still has her getting all her shots, but rather than grouping them all together every six months, we’re spacing them out, one shot at a time, every three months.
I’m not trying to suggest that this approach is right for you. The point I’m trying to make is that when you’re surrounded by extremists on all sides, try looking a little closer at the problem. There’s may be a more moderate approach that no one is really talking about.
It wasn’t too long ago that Zoe used to be completely uninterested in food. While her cousins and friends would gleefully eat anything and everything on their parents’ plates, Zoe would pick uninterestedly at her food and then tell us that she was “all done.”
We weren’t really worried about it, because we knew that every kid approaches food differently, and in time she would come around. Sure enough, looking through her photos now, I find her happily eating all the time.
She likes green beans, broccoli, meatballs, chicken, sandwich meat, and refried beans. She adores black olives and freeze-dried fruit, and she even nibbles on bread sometimes. She’s still a bit pickier than her friends, and flatly refuses to eat some things (like tortillas, pickles, or anything that comes on a spoon). Still, it’s clear that she’s developing her own tastes, and as you can see from these photos, we’re not missing out on those classic baby-covered-in-food moments!
Vanessa: “There is no fun in my life!”
Dr. Huxtable “As you get older, it gets worse.”
– The Cosby Show








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