The Pale Blue Dot

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." ~ Carl Sagan

Geekier Than Thou

If you've ever worried about your nerdy hobby or been concerned about your OCD kicking in, just rest in the knowledge that Adam Savage is somewhere out there pushing the envelope. He's also probably attempting to recreate the envelope from pictures in his spare time. But that's only because he destroyed the original envelope on Mythbusters... you know... trying to see if he could make it burn underwater or something.

American Imperialism

Whatever the History channel is broadcasting right now isn't as important as Howard Zinn's History of American Imperialism. Doesn't hurt that Viggo Mortensen is narrating.

Future Possibilities

The grandchildren of our grandchildren will think about us in the way we think about Neanderthals.

Mixed Signals: Creation vs. Evolution

Opposite Day! Creation as technobabble and Evolution as melodramatic sermon... it's not just a brilliant switcharoo, it's also remarkably well done. You can watch them side by side on Vimeo.

Off-topic (but not if you're Pat Robertson):
So you've probably heard about Ida by now, but did you know it's also an impending hurricane? Do you think the World Meteological Organization and The Paleontological Society have a secret rivalry over names? You know, like the Anchorman news team street fight.

Mustaches bristling! Barometer slings launching projectiles into a crowd of prehistoric graverobbers! Picks and chisels bringing down the front lines of the weather soothsayers! Ida-the-hurricane-of-dead-lemurs!

Anyway, that's how I want to imagine it. We now return to your regularly scheduled program...

History of the Internet