Jeopardy! ran the following round recently. See how many of these you can figure out: I won’t say anything about the difficulty level. [via Paul Lukas]

As a regular service, I like to provide the latest news items from the ever-growing world of crap in the news. This week, two items of, as Janis Joplin used to say, great social and political import: The economy hitting you hard? Are you a major multinational investment corporation with strong ties to the federal [...]

With the first warming up of the large hadron collier today, soon those scientists in Switzerland are going to be re-creating the big bang, just to see what happens. This smacks of those times in my childhood when I & my brother would put our hamster, Herman, in the fridge until he went into hibernation, [...]

Seriously, enough of this crap. For four days straight now, Sarah Palin has been the only non-weather-related story anywhere in the media, online or off. The moosehide-to-one-heartbeat-away story is a compelling one, and with a scant two months to go before election day, it’s important to find out what we can about this woman who [...]