Archive for September, 2008

A Perfunctory Sports Trivia Round

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Game Shows, Trivia | 1 Comment »

Jeopardy! ran the following round recently. See how many of these you can figure out: I won't say anything about the difficulty level. [via Paul Lukas] Read more..

This Week’s News In Poo

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in I Found This Interesting | Comments Off

As a regular service, I like to provide the latest news items from the ever-growing world of crap in the news. This week, two items of, as Janis Joplin used ... Read more..

Turn It On, Turn It On Again

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in NYC, Trivia, I Found This Interesting, Housekeeping | 1 Comment »

With the first warming up of the large hadron collier today, soon those scientists in Switzerland are going to be re-creating the big bang, just to see what happens. This ... Read more..

The Palin Uteruses, Each More Important Than Obama’s Acceptance Speech

Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Lit/Writ/Crit, I Found This Interesting | 4 Comments »

Seriously, enough of this crap. For four days straight now, Sarah Palin has been the only non-weather-related story anywhere in the media, online or off. The moosehide-to-one-heartbeat-away story is a compelling ... Read more..