Are We Recording? Hit Record.: I can see excellent reasons for allowing drug experiences to unfold as ephemera. I get it. I really do. But when it comes down to it we need more data, damn it, and I feel like I have a duty to the community to gather as much information as I [...]

My band will produce cassette tapes (when and if we ever get around to buggering around with music, that is). They will blow your fucking mind.

Eroding our intellectual infrastructure The University of Florida has reached that point. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been told to cut 10% from its budget. Since the biggest chunk of any university’s budget is salaries, that means a lot of people are going on the chopping block — and the administration has [...]

Some Russian thinks America is going to implode: MOSCOW – If you’re inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn’t mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the United States will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a [...]

My maths professor went off on a tangent (no pun intended) about his first language today: Malayalam. I had assumed it would be Urdu or Punjabi -which came up and he acknowledged. He’s Indian and I figured he knew Hindi – which he does. Apparently, while it is the national language, different regions tend to [...]

I just watched it. Pretty much sums up how harmless the mint leaves are. It would be very difficult to get a DUI on Salvia considering the impossibility of even starting a vehicle, let alone driving it. But even I had to do a double-take and say, “is that me?” No, it is not. But [...]

Finding ‘Weird Life’ On Earth: The question Davies is asking is profound, for if life did get its start multiple times on our planet, we can assume it’s far more likely to have appeared elsewhere in the universe. The case for life on those trillions of habitable planets Alan Boss talks about in yesterday’s entry [...]

Ok. It happened. The Onion’s AV Club released the Worst Band Names of 2008. Many of which I find great. But not as great as last years. Those Fucking Unicorns!

The Midwestern Gypsy: My mid-sized Midwestern city is a Gypsy haven. When I first moved here, I heard stories about the local Gypsy family, a nuisance to the community through their small-time thievery and general unruliness in public places. My limited knowledge of Gypsies told me that my city is the last place Gypsies would [...]

This is an ingenious test of reasoning and logic skill.