December 2010
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N.F.L. Fines Jets in Tripping Incident →
$100k. So by NFL logic, tripping someone is twice as bad as sexual harassment. Remember that, Jets coaches, and adjust your tactics for interfering with opposing players accordingly.
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“Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin; censoring...”
– Cambridge University, in response to the UK banking trade association’s request to censor a thesis that documented a flaw in their card security system
(via Boing Boing)
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“What the pilot really did, of course, is throw a ring of well-deserved...”
– Stay classy, TSA.
(Ask the Pilot - Salon.com)
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I just finished watching Fucked Up tear the roof...
And now it’s time for bed. Merry Christmas, everybody.
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“I bet this George Atis guy is one of those lawyers who will say to his wife on...”
– Above The Law, on “Lawyer of the Day” George Atis
(Above the Law)
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“It’s to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Barney Frank owning up to the radical homosexual agenda (Via Towleroad)
Watchthethirdshift:
Barney Frank completely pwns hapless CNS reporter attempting ‘gotcha’ DADT question | Crooks and Liars
Sometimes it’s easy to make a politician look foolish. Barney Frank is not one of those politicians whom you can make look foolish. Also not one to be trifled with.
Holy crap, this is awesome.
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As a parent, I'm beyond angry
I thought George Atis’ non-apology deserved a Tumblr “quote” post. Unfortunately, those don’t lend themselves well to comments. Mr. Atis, here are your comments:
As a parent, my heart goes out to her.
Bullshit. If your “heart went out to her”, you wouldn’t have called a secret meeting to try to force Kayla Watkins off your kid’s hockey team. You...
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“As a parent, my heart goes out to her. If Kayla truly read this agenda by...”
– George Atis, candidate for asshole parent of the year
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Greater Toronto Hockey League →
In case you think parents who use their own insecurities to justify bullying kids into quitting the game should be banned.
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Toronto Ice Dogs hockey club →
Further to that last post. With contact information.
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Toronto lawyer George Atis: major-league dickhead →
In short: he couldn’t handle the fact there was a single girl on his kid’s coed hockey team, so he bullied her into quitting. Which is probably why his website is down, now that his name’s in the press.
Seriously: doesn’t harrassment violate some sort of ethics code? Can we get the OBA on this clown?
WatchIn Russia, pipe lays you.
Ask Hammerito!
hammerito:
Since the eclipse doesn’t start for 2 hours, I need to kill time. If I get some interesting questions, I’ll post a video response. Feel free to ask deep, probing, existential… things.
Feel free to not ask whether I’m single and/or to ask me to describe my penis.
HERE
I’m waiting for: “Describe yourself, and is your penis single?”
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“My point being, I’m saying God doesn’t exist. I’m not saying faith doesn’t...”
– Ricky Gervais on (a)theism.
(A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ)
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A CBC Radio 3 Christmas Carol →
Narrated by Buck 65. A sample:
“He was startled by creepy-ass noises coming from the basement. It sounded like someone dragging a heavy chain around on the ground, or a super self-indulgent section of a Wolf Parade song.”
A map of food deserts in the U.S.
greengrey:
downlo:
The interactive version (with specific city names) is here. The concentration of food deserts in the southern U.S. surprises me. For whatever reason, I assumed there would be more in the northeast and maybe out west in states that are less densely populated.
I’m not really surprised that most are in the south. I would think lower population = lower population density =...
“According to the data, whenever a city doubles in size, every measure of...”
– The New York Times, on the work of high-energy-physicist-turned-urban-scientist Geoffrey West
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
Don't ask, don't tell
Does this mean Republicans can now be openly gay, too?
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"Leafswaffle" would be a great name for a Maple...
Especially if it were run by someone with a German accent. “You vill be crushed by ze mighty Leafsvaffle!” &c.
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Top 10 articles of clothing—PEER PRESSURE EDITION
All the other kids are doing it, so (and in no particular order):
Old Navy jeans. Inexpensive, relatively durable, available in a variety of faux-designer styles. The workhorse of my wardrobe.
Polo shirts. Collared, so they look a bit professional, but still practical when I’m on the lab floor.
Argyle vest or sweater, paired with a casual sport shirt in a complementary colour. A quick way...
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Adventures in tech support
As is usually the case when visiting family, I ended up working on my father-in-law’s seven-year-old PC this afternoon. I went back to it after dinner, leading to this exchange (paraphrased):
Me: “Huh. It doesn’t want to wake.”
Him: “Did you shut it off?”
“No—the machine’s on; it’s just the monitor. The power light isn’t even...
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Ninjas unboxing a Nexus S →
Cooler than you’d think.
“The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted...”
– Fox. News. Lies.
(Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information - World Public Opinion)
I passed!!
ailanthusaltissima:
I am now a doctoral candidate. Now I’ve got to do a TON of research and I’ll be a DOCTOR (not that kind of doctor).
Don’t ever let that stop you from jumping up when someone yells “Is there a doctor in the house?” There is no medical emergency that can’t be addressed by steering the situation towards farce.
Now go get that doctorate! WIN ONE FOR THE...
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I wish I could find the ad I just saw on YouTube.
There is nothing quite like Northern Ontario television. I just saw an ad that played like a setup for a bad Christmas-themed horror/revenge flick—creepy music, robotic acting, a couple of shots that looked like outtakes from the video for “The Thunder Rolls”; the whole package, really.
It was for Christmas specials at a local day spa.