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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Determining the wind-chill factor
(via YesButNoButYes)
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P.Z. Myers posts that there’s new evidence that Human Papilloma Virus may cause oral cancers in men as well as cervical cancer in women and that there is discussion about recommending the Gardasil vaccine for men. The fundie freakshow crowd opposes giving Gardasil to teenage girls on the premise that it will contribute to them becoming promiscuous. What will they say when their doctors tell them to vaccinate their teenage sons, too?
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
