Per aspera

You’ll notice I’ve added a doohickey to the right column of the blargh. It’s a link to donate money to Project Valour-IT, a charity that provides voice-activated laptops to severely wounded soldiers (I learned about it from LGM). That seems like a pretty fantastic cause to me, so I encourage you to throw […]

Omphaloskeptical.
Oh, man, am I stealing that word.

I’ve lived in Massachusetts for six years now, so I already knew that Mitt Romney is a total shitbag.
I feel very strongly about this because, as I said earlier, I believe that maintaining the strength of the marriage relationship, the family relationship, is critical to the strength of an entire society.
And I believe that the […]

It is not at all as though this xkcd cartoon could be describing my inner life in any way.

Fred Clark over at slacktivist is writing a multi-part series on the possible reasons that evangelical Christianity has come to devote such a huge amount of its energy to the gay-hatin’, to the extent that this survey by a Christian polling group found
a new image that has steadily grown in prominence over the last decade. […]

And like all people everywhere, we hate Rudy Giuliani.
While I’m on the subject, is it weird that I was pissed when they hired Rodriguez, but now will be pissed if they don’t re-sign him?
Signing the Ghost of Roger Clemens for a fraction of a season, on the other hand, I expect to remain pissed about.

…is here.

Jesus Christ.

“The cloak appears to be finely-tailored velvet, and has an inside pocket to hold Mr. Fry’s cell phone.”
For real: Stephen Fry has a blog, and his first entry reveals him to be an Olympic-level gadget geek. He makes my own technolust look like chastity. Maybe I associate him too much with Jeeves, but […]

Here are a couple of pages about Alan Moore, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham. According to Gaiman, from whose blog I followed the link, they made it for his fiftieth birthday.

I apologize.
I’ll try to do better.

This is the filthiest thing I’ve seen today.

I know this, because I have come to the realization that I love Sam Adams Octoberfest more than the Winter Lager, when previously Winter Lager had been my favorite beer. Now there are a few, including the Octoberfest, that I’d place above it.* Thus have I reassured myself that I’m still capable of […]

All in the space of five seconds, with no dialogue, or even people!

CHIPMUNK!
(via)

You know how a company like Pampers will donate industrial amounts of diapers to people who have quintuplets or something, sort of acknowledging that this family’s need for diapers is so inhumanly great, they could never expect to meet it except via the well-publicized kindness of a responsible corporate citizen?
Same sort of thing.

Don Herbert, 89; TV’s ‘Mr. Wizard’ taught science to young baby boomers
Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died […]