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Oh, Sims - why must I love you so when Maxis/EA hates Mac users so much? Such a pointless relationship. I feel so Wuthering Heights.

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from today's post at Futility Closet:

One afternoon the doorbell rang at Peter Sellers’ London flat. Sellers was working in his study upstairs, so his wife Anne answered the door. It was a telegram for her:

BRING ME A CUP OF COFFEE. PETER.



Now I no longer feel silly about [info]notarysojac and I emailing each other from opposite ends of the couch.

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Remember A Glorious Dawn, the awesome auto-tuned Carl Sagan (and Stephen Hawking) video clip?

John Boswell of Symphony of Science made another, this time featuring Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye.

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Cory Doctorow, at boingboing, on the TSA snowglobe ban:

The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.

TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate the volume of a object by measuring its displacement. If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint. It would be a lovely counterpoint to your other scientific tests, such as the ducking stool and the spirit-rattles.

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CharityBuzz is auctioning off a private tour of Griffith Observatory with Leonard Nimoy! The tour is for two people and the current high bid is $5,250. The proceeds will go to the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

Also in the auction block: A tour of Industrial Light and Magic with George Lucas. Max bid on this is $300.

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The most amazing halloween costume ever

I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreaters-- but what was in front of our open door--was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said "Please knock."

So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our "costumes" and tell us we were "such cute trick or treaters!" One even pinched my cheek.

Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house.

It was amazing.
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