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Archive for October 14th, 2009

ivory tower and the golden age of television

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

This is good television Drama: House (FOX), Lie to Me (FOX), Mad Men (AMC), LOST (ABC) Comedy: The Office (NBC), 30 Rock (NBC), It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (FX), Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), Flight of the Conchords (HBO) News: The Daily Show (Comedy Central), The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), [...]

Patent Pending

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

I have an idea for an alarm clock that could never go to production because of the certainty of lawsuits. It is simply an alarm clock that has the alarm off button attached to two wires dangling inside of a water bottle. You fill it up before going to bed. It will only turn the [...]

Smartest Guys in the Civilization

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Because I am superior to you, I found a good opinion piece in the New York Times about the simple reason why the economy collapsed: too many smart people worked in finance. It is really about some guy at a bar who had credibility because he had a tweed jacket on while downing martinis. In [...]

how to hold a gun to God’s head

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

The New York Times recently had an article about how the Large Hadron Collider might be doomed from the start because nature hates the idea of creating the Higgs Boson (what gives stuff mass) so much that it goes back in time to prevent one from every being created/extracted by a really high energy collision. [...]