Over at NPR’s Monkey See pop-culture blog, Linda Holmes interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson (who’s promoting his new NOVA special, The Pluto Files), who as always has interesting stuff to say.

In particular, he says this:

The center line of science literacy — which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go [...]

After picking up yet another set of brand new phone books from our front step this morning, probably already the ninth or tenth new set of phone books delivered unbidden to our house this year so far (these ones are en Español, no less), I was inspired with a brilliant idea for a new business. [...]

Page from proposed new South Dakota public high school science textbook.

Apparently, according to the South Dakota House of Representatives, through legislation (and maybe clapping your hands and saying “I do believe, I do believe, I do I do I do believe!”), you can make any damn foolish thing you want into the truth. They’re [...]

…there’s a lot of truth to be found in this:

Cory Doctorow has some further discussion of this image and its concepts over at BoingBoing.

Okay, I hate the trailers on a DVD*, and they make me purple with rage when they’re unskippable (though I don’t think they’ve managed to create trailers that you can’t fast-forward thru [...]

Look at them!

Behold them in all their glory!

You cannot look away!

Norwegian.

Curling.

PANTS.

Women want them. Men want to be them.

Show of hands, who caught the debut of the new version of “We Are the World” over the weekend?

Okay, further show of hands, who tried really, really hard to keep from laughing about the whole ridiculous thing because it’s an earnest effort to provide charity money for an undeniably worthy cause…but couldn’t help yourself and [...]

Sheesh. I’ve done the best I can to restore everything, but I lost a lot of comments and more than a few posts forever (including some, like my “they banned the dictionary” one from a few weeks back that I was really proud of). But we’re back up and running here.

And, as you can see, [...]

Did something unfortunate whilst upgrading my WP install and cleaning up some files. Things got hosed.

Will restore previous files as much as possible.

This year’s Golden Raspberry nominations are out. The Razzies, now in their 30th year of “honoring” the year’s worst in cinema, have become kind of a fun tradition in the midst of awards season. And, make no mistake, if there is anything on Earth that utterly and unquestionably deserves a merciless skewering, it is the [...]