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Medicine

Just a phone, dammit!

I’m a pretty big computer geek most of the time, and I do love gadgets. However, even I can sympathize with the consumers in this story: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Nathan Bales represents a troubling trend for cellular phone carriers. The Kansas City-area countertop installer recently traded in a number of feature-laden phones for a […]

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Blogging

Lemming-like, I follow

OK, PZ, Grrlscientist, and John have all done it. They’ve used a cool little applet to show their blogs as graphs. I figured I’d give it a try, too. Why not? (Click on the image to see the graph construct itself.) Basically, the applet shows the tree structure of a web page in a rather […]

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Humor Paranormal

I could use one of these

Worried about ghosts bothering you? What about demons possessing you? Or aliens abducting you for all sorts of strange experiments, complete with anal probes? Well, fear no more! I’ve discovered just the thing. You need a Paranormal Restraining Order! Feel like sinning and don’t want to be subject to the Lord’s wrath? This is just […]

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Humor

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?

It’s the middle of a long holiday weekend (well, here in the U.S., anyway). What better time to do a silly Internet quiz to pass the time while waiting to round? (Yes, I’m working all weekend.) What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die? You will be smothered under a rug. You’re a little anti-social, […]

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Humor Science fiction/fantasy

What happened when Darth Vader had to tell the Emperor that the Death Star had been destroyed

Hilarious. It incorporates what we know now from the prequels into what might have happened when Darth Vader had to tell the Emperor what happened at the end of the first Star Wars movie: