Thanks to my brother Tom for pointing this out. The folks at Bad Lip Reading have done a number of videos like this, and another team calling itself Day Job Orchestra has done quite a few more (the latter often … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Salon has an article on the latest demonstration showing how voting machines — in this case a Diebold model, though the basic approach is more broadly applicable — can be easily and inexpensively modified to add switch a voter’s choices … Continue reading
Another Candid Camera-type gag from the Just for Laughs channel on YouTube: by … Continue reading
Apologies for following the herd some more on the subject of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s possible try for the Republican presidential nomination, but Nate Silver’s piece in the The New York Times is worth a read on where Christie … Continue reading
I’m possibly the last person to post a link to this blog entry by Kevin Manahan on The (Newark) Star-Ledger website, but given the talk of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s possible entry into the crowded but uninspiring Republican presidential … Continue reading
Another one from Failblog.org: Looks like the pharmacists got into their own stock. by … Continue reading
This is really remarkable. Scientists at UC Berkeley used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of members of their own team while the subjects watched movie trailers, after which the scans were run through computer analysis to … Continue reading
I feel a little guilty for constantly referring to Steve Benen’s blog at WashingtonMonthly.com, but he keeps making points that I agree with. In his latest post, Benen himself references a very interesting piece by another blogger, Kevin Drum of … Continue reading
As Steven Benen pointed out this morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry is backing away from his earlier suggestions that Social Security was an unconstitutional bad idea. I suppose that’s good news, but it’s perhaps worth noting that Perry also made … Continue reading
This is a Candid Camera-style prank from the YouTube channel Just for Laughs: by … Continue reading