Crude but true

Maybe this explains why all the super smart, sexy and accomplished people I know are - for the most part - still single well beyond their marriageable years.

Maybe being flung across the world pursuing personal interests and not staying in one place long enough to build lasting relationships has something to do with it, too.
[Or maybe that's just me.]

At least there are self-promotional t-shirts.

Mushroom print

You don't know Darth

This is just... WRONG on so many levels.

The most successful franchises are those which delve into the essence of the brand and recast it in a contemporary light. Star Wars’ Clone Wars, despite all the criticism you hear, is making a lot of money. The kids watching it today aren’t familiar with the prequels. They don’t even know that Anakin is Darth Vader.

Diggin in the crates

Hard to imagine that YouTube owes everything to these two individuals:

Carl Malamud

Tim Berners-Lee


Here they are together.

Pissing on the border

I just came across an interesting argument in the battle for private property legitimacy (not that this is seriously in dispute, but some philosophers have considered it destructive to human organization):

"property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence." [Raymond, E. from The Cathedral and the Bazaar]

Ironically, in searching for information on the subject, I came across more articles written to teach us how to dissuade domesticated animals from doing it than I did articles to understand why we humans seem to find it so necessary.

Yeah, those pissing animals are nothing like us.

Mom sings