This is surely the best thing to happen to the “Land of the Tobacco Pipe,” in roughly 165 years, when the first organized game of baseball was played at Elysian Fields. And, by virtue of this post, you now know everything you will ever need to know about Hoboken, NJ. You’re welcome.
MIT Chemistry Professor, Dan Nocera claims to have solved that pesky little energy production problem we humans have been struggling with. Rather than telling us how, exactly, he plans on using photosynthesis to create and store energy, he prefers to deliver his gospel in the form of a disjointed PowerPoint presentation.
I was going to post this as a comment on Russ’ post, but I have enough to say that it warrants one of these ranty point-counterpoint things we love so much on TMR.
One of my new favorite satirical websites is PleaseRobme, a database of absent-minded social networking updates broadcasting that the user is away from home. In the words of the website,
“So here we are; on one end we’re leaving lights on when we’re going on a holiday, and on the other we’re telling everybody on the internet we’re not home.”
This is an epic Funny or Die piece. It takes us back through four generations of SNL crews, and highlights some of the best impersonators still walking around. Though, not all of these characters are exactly spot on (cough… Chevy… cough).
The eyes and ears of our future cybernetic overlords have taken shape, thanks to the industrious engineering work of the Germans. How ironic.
The Hexacopter can zoom in and out of view in the blink of an eye, and sounds like an “angry swarm of bees” as it collects intelligence, scans for impure thoughts, and prepares a euthanasia beam for its thankful victims.
From Droogie at Daily Kos comes a new and exciting competition (we here at The Mep Report take no obvious position on the content herein. You’ll all just have to read between the lines for yourselves…):
The Out-Dick Jim Bunning Contest!
So, here’s a few of the things I’ve done over the past few days to prove my dick credentials, in my ongoing efforts to out-dick Jim Bunning.