The Moon, bitches!

The United States of SPACE!
Goddamn would I kill to watch him do Obama skits.

Turncloak

I’ve long had both feet firmly planted on the openSuSE camp when it comes to the distro wars. Same for KDE in the KDE Vs Gnome (and now xfce and others) one. Gnome feels way to limited as far as configuration. Also, I’m more used to the KDE GUI, not to mention that I consistently [...]

I have a fantasy boner* right now

George R. R. Martin:
Now all I need to do is wrap up (…) and yes… A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, and maybe I’ll be able to take a week off. (The reason they call them deadlines is because they’re like to kill you).
He used wrap up and ADWD in the same sentence. Oh FSM, I can’t [...]

Curse you, Marvel Comics!

For making me want to buy soon-to-be-released Spider-Man comics featuring the one and only Stephen T. Colbert. Luckily for my finances, I don’t even know where to buy comics around here.
Apparently, there’s been “Colbert for President” signs appearing in Marvel comics lately.
Those brilliant, greedy bastards.
EDIT: There appears to be a whole lotta posts on the [...]

Bring out the On Notice board, Jimmy!

Some are self-explanatory, some may require a little context. Just in case:

Micro Black Holes at Cern’s LHC: Scientist say they are absolutely no problem at all. Paranoid tinfoil hat people with zero background on physics go apocalyptic. I can’t trust scientists, they’re too facty.
Communist Panda Bears: I had heard somewhere that Pandas weren’t actually bears. [...]

Before I forget…

Go see The Dark Knight. I’ll even make it easier. Here’s the Fandango link to the movie. Enter your zip code and look for show times near you.
Ignore your stupid inner voice that says “any movie getting this much early praise and hype is doomed to be dissapointing.” That voice doesn’t have a freakin’ clue [...]

You tell me that you’ve heard every sound there is…

I make no secret of my devotion to The Beatles (aka The four greatest specimens our proud species has been able to produce). If you know me (and I’m guessing you do), this comes as no news to you.
For some reason, I always get a little excited when I find that somebody shares a fondness [...]

The most important physics calculation of the year is…

From the always hilarious XKCD
… The time it will take for physicists to have a functioning majority in Congress. Currently, there’s three. Honestly, I think more people with a strong science (read: real science, social sciences don’t count) background should be involved in government. Not nearly as much for what they know (quoth Congressman Holt: [...]

Holy Frak!

Seriously, how cool are these propaganda posters? Not that the shows/films they belong to are in the same league by any stretch of the imagination, but this campy WWII propaganda vibe is the main reason I fell in love with Starship Troopers (Psychic Doogie Howser was a bonus).
Now that Battlestar Galactica’s Season 4 is, for [...]