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AlexC was at tonight’s ill-fated airing of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio and shot some photos. I say “ill-fated” because while it was a good episode with a lively discussion, a technical glitch resulted in the show not being recorded, so there will be no podcast episode this week. Fortunately, this photographic evidence exists to prove we were [...]

Things that make life kind of nice today, despite the cold and the holiday shoppers… Sleeping late. Very late. Emily’s cute pig tails. Emily making a yummy mac-n-cheese with broccoli and whole grain mustard just in time for me to wake up to the smell of it The Soup with Joel McHale on TiVo Spontaneous [...]

Boing Boing linked to this atheistic sign on display beside a nativity scene in front of an Olympia, Washington government building. The comments under the post are pretty entertaining, particularly one from “Tenn,” who writes, “I think religion is great for certain people, it gives them a reason to wake up in the morning. Like [...]

A link in time saves nine… Sometimes XKCD is a little too dead on. Here’s another example. Funny animal video #1: Jerry Lewis goat. Funny animal video #2: ninja cat! Ding It’s up! – what an obvious and useful thing. Security guru Bruce Schneier on the Mumbai attacks Bush reminds us he’s still “in president.” [...]

The bad news is I didn’t get into Sundance. No big surprise there — I only entered because Withoutabox.com made it so easy. The good news is Netflix is now offering their online movie service for Mac users! So it’s really a wash as far as the day goes.

I saw this at Gerry Canavan’s blog and thought I’d throw it out here. Comments have been dead here lately so add your results below… Basically, you look at the list of films by the various famous directors and pick which film you think is the best from each director. We may all agree that [...]

Here’s a mini linkdump of the stuff that has caught my eye today… Change.gov drops the “all rights reserved” tag and adopts a creative commons license. Theresa Honeywell is tougher than you. A full and complete watch-gasm How to bilk people on Facebook Christmas is coming! Sins or black metal band names?