Daily Show mocks CNN

This clip helps illustrate why I have trouble appreciating CNN on a regular basis. They give equal time to knowledgeable people as they do the […]

SNL’s Obama

The most recent is below, with SNL’s Obama (Fred Armisen) giving his thoughts about the President’s Nobel Prize. I could not find the Pillow skit, […]

Learn to be Lucky

The author of this experiment noticed certain habits of lucky people, and had people do exercises designed to get them to think like lucky people. […]

More stimulus details coming soon

Judging from the reports from some states, it would not be a stretch to think that the stimulus has saved over 100,000 teacher’s jobs. With […]

Windows 7

I’ve been using the release candidate beta of windows 7 for the last 6 months. Complaints? On my desktop, initially the sleep function wasn’t working. […]

Recession is Over!

According to a survey of 44 forecaster’s released by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), the recession has come to an end. http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN1214727320091012 And […]

SNL’s Carville

James Carville was the lead strategist for the presidential campaign of then-governor Bill Clinton. Carville also was the strategist for defeated* Afghan presidential hopeful, Ashraf […]

Tetley

Tetley was the runt of a gaggle (litter?) of miniature pigs born at a farm in Devon, UK. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=70397&in_page_id=34 Tea cup piglets are a popular […]

No Impact Man

No Impact Man is determined to live making as little impact as possible. Only local foods, no automobiles, no electricity. Sounds like torture to me. […]

A Cloud over Moscow

There is a video here: http://englishrussia.com/?p=5256 http://english.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/10/12/09152845/Independence.Day.Cloud.over.Moscow “A spokesman from the city’s weather forecast said: ‘Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was […]