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December 31st, 2009

We like lists because we don’t want to die. SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International  

December 30th, 2009

P&G isn’t talking, but we suspect the cloyingly repulsive taste of NyQuil is to ensure that you can swallow a tablespoon or two but can’t drink enough of the stuff to start seeing Jesus. What’s Inside: NyQuil, Fortified With Powerful Narcotics!  

A report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities indicates that the U.S. is one of only two nations on Earth in which people aged 25 to 34 have lower educational attainment than their parents. Education Rate in U.S. Declines by Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly  

December 29th, 2009

It’s more like…it’s more like a guy on the beach with a metal detector who walks over to you and says, “I found this. Is it yours?” And then he hands you your own skull. Review of Werner Herzog’s MY SON, MY SON WHAT HAVE YE DONE  

You’d think that somebody with a direct line to the Almighty, and tapped by Jesus to save mankind on Earth, would be able to come up with a better business plan for running a daily newspaper. The end of the Wash. Times and Rev. Moon’s right-wing charity | Media Matters for America  

December 28th, 2009

Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks. Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator  

He couldn’t have looked more out of touch in those pictures if he was wearing his clothes backwards like Kriss Kross. Caption Contest: I Spy a Poser : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

December 27th, 2009

What you do, instead, is you fix your fucking shitty ass network you fucking shit-eating-grin-wearing hillbilly ass clown! The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T  

December 26th, 2009

There comes a time in every science writer’s career when one must write about glass duck vaginas and explosive duck penises. Kinkiness Beyond Kinky | The Loom | Discover Magazine  

Don’t they care that the product they’re defending is basically shit? Eschaton  

December 25th, 2009

So that’s how 12-year-old Glenn Beck learned to love himself and God and family. And then later he became a cokehead morning-zoo DJ and now he’s a dick on TV thank you and goodnight! My Year Of Everything - The Unlikely Moviegoer  

December 24th, 2009

Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe  

While I should have felt guilt over being such an integral part of this deception, I was only 25, so the part of my brain that is capable of feeling true guilt wouldn’t develop until, I don’t know, it’ll develop some day, I guess. Scholars and Rogues » Gift Wrapping  

HEY LOOK I made a list of my top 10 records of 2009 Just in time for you to add to your Christmas list, or spend your iTunes gift cards on, or download illegally. Whatever you want! Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday  

Does he keep writing about the same woman because he’s too lazy to find someone else, or because he can’t find any other Jews willing to talk about how nice it is to have a religion they do not believe in shoved down their throats? Joe Fitzgerald’s token Christmas-loving Jew « Something better to do