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Gracie Speaks: Octogenerian Video Blogger [VIDEO]
My eighty-two year old mother, Grace, has started video blogging. Her video podcasts are called "Gracie Speaks."
Timelapse: Traffic Casualties In Great Britain, 1999-2010 [VIDEO]
7 Things About Battlestar Galactica For Which I Cannot Suspend My Disbelief
I am halfway through season two of the Sci-Fi Channel's reimagined Battlestar Galactica series and I really, really like it. Yeah, yeah, I know; I'm late to the game.
I have a friend who is congenitally incapable of suspending his disbelief. I'm the opposite. I can fairly effortlessly suspend my disbelief in order to enjoy a movie or TV show. But despite how much I love Battlestar Galactica, even I have trouble accepting some premises of the show:- Rotary-dial style phones with cords. Really? During the past 150,000 years we humans have yet to find a way to disentangle ourselves from wires?
- Paper. Again, while here in the present we're snapping up Kindle Fires like there's no tomorrow, downloading ebooks at a record pace, and clogging up the Internet with emails and status updates, yet the commander of the Battlestar Galactica records his captain's log using pen and paper?
- Eye glasses. I guess opthamology has not progressed beyond LASIK eye surgery over the course of 150,000 years.
- Smoking. And all the indoor smoking laws have been repealed?
- Sir. The salutation applies to both men and women equally and without irony?
- Frack. This one is really frackin' ridiculous. The writers wanted a substitute for the word Fuck because they wanted the characters to be able to swear like sailors but every time I hear Frack--and that's a lot--it sounds so contrived, it annoys.
- Human lookalikes. The Cylons have figured out a way to replicate humans so that they can infiltrate the human race with Cylon/Human replicants yet they only made six varieties?
So they made many versions of the same model--which all look alike--and yet it didn't occur to the Cylons that we humans may grow suspicious when we see we see several versions of the same "person" popping up all over the place?
Scientists Study Why You Can't Get It Out Of Your Head
"An earworm is the experience of an inability to dislodge a song and prevent it from repeating itself in one’s head.”
Oh, thaaat.
In the last five years, earworms have become the subject of peer-reviewed scientific studies. In 2006, Steven Brown of Simon Fraser University even studied his own earworms and observed in the Journal of Consciousness Studies that they could be used as a basis for understanding how conscious experience can be split into multiple parallel streams. In 2008, moreover, Finnish researchers published a study that used the Interrnet to survey age, gender, personality and musical and linguistic competence of 12,420 countrymen who experienced the endless loops in their heads. Read the rest at Scientific American.
Reason 739 For Not Having Children [VIDEO]
Hey Jude [FLOWCHART]
Killer Coffee [PRODUCT]
Man Climbs Over White House Fence [VIDEO]
I guess I was in DC yesterday (thanks to Rick Birmingham for pointing this out!):
The man clambered over the fence, ran with his arms outstretched directly toward officers who ordered him to the ground with their weapons drawn.
"He just belly-flopped and cart wheeled over the fence," David Erickson said.
Government Debt [VIDEO INFOGRAPHIC]
A Nightstand For The Nocturnally Parched [PHOTO]
