Foobarnacle

May 9

BBC NEWS | Great tits cope well with warming

This reads like one of those formerly-serious articles where someone replaces the subject with a dirty phrase. Except this is the actual article.

May 8

“Who does more for the redwoods and society anyway — the guy chained to a tree or the guy who founds the “Green Travel Redwood Tree-Hug Tour Company” and makes a million by turning redwoods into a tourist destination, a valuable resource that people will pay just to go look at? So make your contribution by getting rich. Don’t be an idealist.”

P.J. O’Rourke: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times

(via Andrew Sullivan)

May 7

DC neighborhood advisory committee says: NO PING PONG FOR YOU!

(via The Anti-DC)

Self-Referential Aptitude Test

This is going to keep me up all night.

(via xkcd forums)

May 6

Meat slurry

This is the closest thing I’ve ever found to a meatshake. And I’m never eating chicken nuggets again.

Want: hour glass

May 5

Note to annoying girl at work.

“

This morning, George Stephanopoulos began his televised interview with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by asking if she could name a single economist who supported her plan for a gas-tax suspension.

Mrs. Clinton did not. “I’m not going to put in my lot with economists,” she said on the ABC program “This Week.” A few moments later, she added, “Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans.”

”

There Goes the Economists Vote

(via Andrew Sullivan)