Daily Blend: Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tim Profitt

• Tiny catapults flinging tiny pies at bugs. Oh, wait, it was a commercial? What about?
  (via The Agitator)

• NASA hands Global Warming denialists another smack upside the head with their Climate Change Evidence page.
  (via Bad Astronomy)

• John Scalzi has a list of things he doesn’t have to think about today. You should read. Seriously, go. Now.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Clockwork: Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist) posts about sexy skeptic calendars, so naturally, the very first comment is whining about how alienating it is. Well, if just recognizing and admiring the attractiveness of sexy people as sexual beings (regardless of gender and/or the individuals’ intelligence or accomplishments) pushes these people away, then indeed, be gone.

• Speaking of sexy: These “sexy Halloween costumes” are very mostly not. And some are plain freaking weird. (Radley Balko suggests a “Sexy Glenn Beck”. I shall now bill him for vomit damage to my keyboard.)
  (via The Agitator)

• So having lots of money slows down your aging. You sure it’s not just being more comfortable and happy?
  (via The Daily Grail)

• 12 ancient landmarks soon to be swallowed by time (and human carelessness).
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Final closure to the Constance McMillen affair: Judge orders Mississippi’s Itawamba school district to pay over $80,000 in legal fees and expenses for the hassle they pulled the ACLU-backed Constance through.
  (via @hemantmehta)

• RIAA gets the courts to knock off LimeWire. (Note: Only the client itself was ordered gone, not the network itself. So go FrostWire! … for now!)

• President Obama meets with Jon Stewart later today at 11 PM.

• Following the typical neocon line, Tim Profitt, thug who stomped on a progressive activist’s head at a Rand Paul rally, blames victim, demands apology.
  (via @todayspolitics)(via @todayspolitics)

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