Kids these days, I tell ya!

Do not watch this if you are also hung over.

From Discover's in-house blog, The Ten Worst Science Books:

Capra, Frifjof, The Tao of Physics. Helped inspire the tedious New Age obsession with quantum mechanics.

Drexler, Eric, Engines of Creation. Bible of the pseudo-scientific cult of nanotechnology.

Edelman, Gerald, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. Oliver Sacks, inexplicably, reveres the pretentious, obscure neural theories of the egomaniacal Edelman. Why, Oliver, why?

Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point. Chaos theory and social dynamics re-packaged into inspirational bromides. As an editor once wrote on an article I submitted, “A triumph of style over substance.”

Gould, Stephen Jay, Rocks of Ages. Gould at his pompous, verbose worst. He managed somehow both to pander and condescend to readers.

Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe. Through this book and the spinoff TV series, Green has duped millions of innocent people into believing in things about as plausible as leprechauns.

Hamer, Dean, The God Gene. Any book by Hamer, “discoverer” of the “gay gene” and “God gene,” would have sufficed. He is an embarrassment to genetics.

Kramer, Peter, Listening to Prozac. Kramer helped Lilly make a buttload of money with his musings on a mythical drug that magically dispels depression.

Kurzweil, Ray, The Age of Spiritual Machines. Bible of the pseudo-scientific cult of cyber-evangelism.

Murray, Charles, and Richard Herrnstein, The Bell Curve. The worst of the worst, ethically, scientifically, intellectually.

Wilson, Edward, Consilience. Sorry, Ed, but even your writerly charm cannot mitigate this misguided manifesto for scientific imperialism. Stick with ants and biodiversity!

On the basis of that bitch about Gould I had assumed Discover were Brits, but apparently not. Weirdly, while commenters suggest other books that should be included (including some pinhead having a go at Rachel Carson), the most robust defence is for that trash The Bell Curve. Pfft, eggheads, whadda they know?

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Originally posted by prolific hack colin:
Do not watch this if you are also hung over.

Ha! Reminds me of a night at CCD way back when.

The latest use of blogs.

They actually arrested these guys about four bocks from my house.

Squid!

Recommended for prolific hacks.

Video trailer - how Nasa airbrushed alien lunar bases out of the moonshot photos released to the public.

You can watch the first two episodes of Dexter online. Free. No signup or nothing.

It's on Showtime. Stars John C. Hall as everyone's favorite serial killer. John C. Hall played the gay brother-mortician in Six Feet Under. He's buffed up and not gay now. He just likes cutting people up.

http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/sneakpeek/home.do

Now I gotta get Showtime.

Stop-motion animation using white board.

Via Drawn!.

REALLY a good show. Serious.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:
You can watch the first two episodes of Dexter online. Free. No signup or nothing.

http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/sneakpeek/home.do

But only from inside the US.
Arseburgers.

They're blocking foreign ips?

Bastards!

You'll have to wait for the Season 1 DVD?

Worth it, I think.

Killer show... in more ways than one.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:

That is a gorgeous shirt.
Want one.

Here you go.

Thanks a lot.
I've totally gone off it now.

Ah, that is one excellent promo shot...

From what I read up on that series, it sounds just like the kind of show any Se7en fan *cough* would enjoy, but the 'pretty boy' vibe the protagonist gives, don't know... a serial killer is supposed to be a creepy, menacing-looking SOAB, ain't he?

/thinks of American Psycho, Hannibal

Mmhh... well, maybe not necesarily.

~~~ but the 'pretty boy' vibe the protagonist gives ~~~

He's a very complex (believable, within the limits of fiction in general) character. He's pretty much asexual. Finds sex... uncivilized? Full minutes of the first two episodes find him explaning he picked a girlfriend that was nearly as damaged as he is (doesn't like sex).

The only weak part I saw was the explanation of his relationship with his cop-foster-dad wherein he's taught to channel his need to kill people for good. A quasi-superhero explanation. But that, being the worst, is still not bad at all.

They fit some pretty well done humor in.

I like it. God help me.

It's the dude from Six Feet Under, is it not? Good to see him getting more work.

They do the setting to the hilt. Miami, at it's most beautiful and it's most horrid.

Lot of food.

LOT of food!

Like any good sexual tale.