10 Crazy-Looking New Deep-Sea Creatures

A great trip to see the Star Wars exhibit!

The 10 Best Star Wars Sound Effects Of All Time

The Industrial Revolution Has Slipped The Bitch On Evolution

...and prosperity via simpleton culture: the idiots are taking over.

My New Game Obsession

Bioshock 2

"New Leviathan Whale Was Prehistoric "Jaws"?"

From Peru: the giant sperm whale Leviathan mellvillei

A man would fit in its skull.

100 Greatest Movie Insults

Still Skeptical

For Clyde Squid

Argentina v Germany: Psychic octopus tips winner (video)

The octopus who has correctly predicted the results of all of Germany's World Cup games has picked a winner for Germany v Argentina in the World Cup quarter-final match on Saturday.

Morphing cars and planes closer as Pentagon develops shape-shifting robot

Pentagon research scientists have taken a first step towards "Transformers"-style shape-shifting cars and aircraft, with a robot that can fold itself like origami into different forms.

Album Review: All Of The 80's Music You Hated Loving

Redux: The new Scissor Sisters album is inspired madness. I never hated/loved the 80's so much/more.

It's like listening to Sirius XM's 1st Wave channel but not recognizing the songs; it's a Prince album before he went all Jehovah's Witness. It's when gay was straight, but totally gay.

The Scissor Sisters have their first totally great album.

Happy Gay Pride 2

We're Still National Champions

Your gods demand tears for your epic fail!

Just in case you forgot, the Crimson Tide is still the National Champions.

Raven AND Nina AND Pandora Boxx AND Ongina

RuPaul's Drag U will start July 16. All my favorite bitches from the first two seasons will be competing, so watch out.



Nina Flowers should have won the first season, and Raven should have won the second. Most of the others were serious contenders from both seasons.

Drag queens taking tragic women and remaking them is, quite possibly, the most brilliant idea for a show since Top Chef. Or RuPaul's Drag Race.

Uh-oh

The US Navy is massing warships, including the nuclear carriers Eisenhower and Truman, near Iran.

This confluence of warships may only be a transfer; but given the G8's condemnation and Israel's naval positioning and alleged pre-basings, I am concerned.

Unless we (and by we, I mean NATO, Israel, and those Gulf allies who want to remain nameless) have special ops and civilian intelligence in place to do the dirty work that smart bombs can't, any preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear centrifuges could be a disaster.

Or, it all could be nothing: a show of force whose political implications will be, in my opinion, nothing but stupid. Bombastic, insincere bullying should be left with the previous administration's 2nd-term failures. And sincere, not-thought-out military actions should be left to its 1st-term debacles. We should not lend our support to such wearying, unproductive nonsense now: all military actions should be approved by Congress (per our constitution).

Either bomb them right or get away. Doing either would make Obama demonstrably better than Bush the Younger.

I Found It!

When I was in Chicago last year, I was on a bus tour with my parents (against my protestations). And I saw, 2 streets off where we were driven, a building that warmed by mind.


By accident, I happened upon what it was. It's called The Contemporaine; and it won multiple awards. It's a residential building, which makes me both happy and ill. Why are such buildings so rare?