Today’s top story: LOLcats are awesome. Among the usual stories of politics, business, and school shootings, today’s LA Times featured an entire article about I Can Has Cheezburger, the internet’s leading provider of pictures of cats with poorly written captions. It’s actually an interesting read; I never really considered that people are making a living [...]
Archive for September, 2008
In the News
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review: American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho describes a few years in the life of Patrick Bateman, a successful investor and psychopath. That’s about all there is to it. American Psycho is not so much a story, but a drawn out snapshot of the nightmare world of yuppies in late 80s New York. This setting is as [...]
LHC
Posted in general science, philosophy, technology on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love Google’s title image for today: It’s a nice mix of recognizing an extremely important scientific accomplishment with just a pinch of end-of-the-world paranoia. The truth is that the world has about the same chance of ending today as it did yesterday. But I think the dimwitted people protesting the large hadron collider aren’t [...]
