From the sadness of the Internet’s tragic clown face. Carl Sagan is dead. There will never be another Carl Sagan, so stop saying there needs to be a new Carl Sagan. Some kooky children’s books e.g. “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” “Never Smile at a Monkey” and “Joined at Birth: the Lives...
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Don’t look now, but it’s List Time! (Lists abound at the end/beginning of every year, in case you live in a cave and didn’t know.)  Below is my little contribution to the literary scorekeeping process — my favorite books from the past decade.  Arts and Entertainment If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, by...
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Some tasty links unearthed from the bowels of the Internet. Crappy Taxidermy may be one of the greatest Web sites in recorded human history. (Via Morbid Anatomy.) Can a Zebrafish cure my tinnitus? Radley Balko details, with great accuracy, why Jon Stewart is not funny: “…the show just doesn’t have the same claws for Obama that it...
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Weasel, originally uploaded by John Baird.
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