It’s been a few days since the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theatre, where a neuroscience dropout killed at least a dozen people at a showing of Dark Knight Rises. The blogosphere has been churning away in the meantime, doing what it does best: collating, aggregating, live-blogging and synthesizing the information that the …
Category Archive: Current Events
Jul 05 2012
San Diego’s 4th fireworks: worst, or best?
According to The Atlantic Wire, San Diego’s entire 18 minute show got compressed (via time dilation, rogue Hobbits, or a misfire — we may never know!) into a mere 15 seconds. I put it to you dear readers: worst, or best?
Jun 29 2012
Lonesome George has died
The last Galapagos tortoise, Lonesome George, has died at roughly a hundred years old. Scientists aren’t sure why he died and plan an autopsy, but Galapagos tortoises were thought to have a lifespan of about two hundred years. George was a member of the same species of tortoise that prompted Charles Darwin, on visiting the …
Jun 10 2012
Kid tries to prove his masculinity by shooting himself in the head on live video
See, it’s bullshit like this that motivates me to destroy gender roles, not just for feminism’s sake, but for men as well. This child did not, obviously, think things through before he tried to prove how “manly” he was to his friends on video chat. He put a gun to his head and pulled the …
Jun 06 2012
Labatt almost sues Montreal Gazette over dismemberer’s photo
They wisely backed off after a Twitter campaign to remind them of the Streissand Effect, but the makers of the least complicated beer in Canada very nearly sued the Montreal Gazette over publishing this photo from Luka Magnotta’s Facebook feed. What’s the big deal though? It’s a picture of the killer in a club or …
May 25 2012
Geek Pride, Towel Day and Glorious 25th of May!
Pulling yet another overnight for work tonight, but I have every intention of taking my towel with me. Today marks three distinct geek holidays all wrapped into one! Kylie has a post with an infographic up to explain Towel Day, a day to celebrate the life and works of Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide to …
Mar 16 2012
Invisible Children #Kony2012 filmmaker detained for masturbating in public
No idea whether he was on something or had a nervous breakdown or what, but apparently this is, um, a bit out of character for Jason Russell. The San Diego police department has taken him to a medical facility after he apparently went something close to crazy in public. Specifically, via NBC: Jason Russell, 33, …
Dec 03 2011
Fukushima: it gets even worse
As though it wasn’t bad enough already. The NY Times reports that the meltdown may have already escaped containment and begun boring through the concrete floor, according to a computer simulation of the original accident. Soon after an earthquake and a tsunami on March 11 knocked out cooling systems at the power plant, nuclear fuel …
Oct 31 2011
Oozing Pumpkin Puke
Happy Hallowe’en! Stephanie had a great idea in posting a science demo of an exploding pumpkin, so I figure I should take a cue and post something appropriately Halloweenie. Bleaurgh!!!
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