No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

From Gizmodo, Killer Drones: Not just for the Scottish anymore.

Did YOU get it? Very funny.
If you didn’t, I’ll cough it up tomorrow.

From William Makepeace Thackeray: “There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”
I heard that.
Via The Writer’s Almanac

And I know funny. This Land Is Your Land has got to be the funniest political song of the election season.
Both camps should embrace it and have some fun.
But they won’t.

New Daily Read site of mine: Spaceweather.com.
Really interesting stuff. Near Earth Objects (asteroids, comets, etc), sunspots and general geeky space stuff.

I guess you’d expect a newsletter like The Writer’s Almanac to be, well…literal. Garrison Keillor, host of the long-running A Prairie Home Companion has a daily short called The Writer’s Almanac, complete with accompanying email newsletter. It’s a great little program, full of just the right amount of “I didn’t know that” info.
I receive it [...]

As much as I hate to admit it, Comedy Central’s new show, Crossballs looks seriously funny. They get unsuspecting experts on a faux debate show ala Crossfire or Hardball, and put them up against a stand-up comedian pretending to be an expert, or at least someone with an opposing view. Laura Weinstein didn’t fall for [...]

As you’ve probably learned, Marlon Brando has passed away. Brando for me was something I “got” only after accumulating the experiences of watching him on screen. In any one role, it’s like “okay, it’s Brando. And?” It’s the transparency of greatness that’s telling. For me, watching a great actor is like looking at glass. When [...]