Somehow this came up at work…I had to put it online. It’s time to rediscover the wonderful world of trebuchets. Forget fads of the 90s, 80s, or 70s–medieval is in and hip as ever! Everyone needs medieval weaponry this winter!…
According to an article in the New York Times, “former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that…
This is good: CNN reports that Kazakhstan (or, correctly, the Foriegn Ministry) has threatened to sue Ali G’s Sacha Baron Cohen for his Borat character. Borat is Cohen’s bumpkin Kazakh personality, made famous from the Ali G show. So this…
Way to go Astros! Congrats on your first ever trip to the World Series!
Whats up with the monster hurricanes this year? Perhaps they’re part of a weather axis of evil?
In an article in today’s New York times entitled Top Graduates Line Up to Teach to the Poor, we learn what so many young college grads like me know already–that teaching after college has become an ever more popular thing…
Take a look at this article entitled “They’re Not Stupid—They’re Lazy: The real reason American high-schoolers have such dismal test scores.” It continues to highlight the problems of incentive-driven testing. “When states begin imposing penalties for failure, it makes a…
War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.: articles like this one are eerie, if anything. It’s basically terrorism war games–while practice is necessary to know what to do in the real thing, these kind of things are never…
Something about watching pictures of the shuttle in space is just awe inspiring. How cool would it be to go into space? Perhaps space launches have become “ordinary” in my lifetime?– I’m still intrigued, as always.
Thanks to Steven for sending me this link. I haven’t posted since last week, so I figure this is worthy of note. There are a million puns or jokes I could use here, but I’ll just post the link and…