by Jim Stitzel | Jun 24, 2010 | Asides
Whooping cough now an epidemic in California | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. This… this just pisses me off. A completely preventable disease that we nearly had wiped out in the US, and now it’s making a resurgence because people aren’t getting...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 23, 2010 | Geekery
Courtesy of Cory Doctorow’s link over on BoingBoing, I stumbled across this hugely addictive puzzle game where you shoot ragdolls from a cannon in order to get them to the target. It’s got 20 levels and plays rather quickly. It’s pretty fun! Ragdoll...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 18, 2010 | Geekery
I made the leap from Windows to Ubuntu this week. I ran a test install of the system using the Wubi Installer and decided I liked it enough to make the switch more permanent. Yesterday, I backed up all my files and overwrote my Windows setup with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 6, 2010 | Geekery
This is just too awesome! The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cFailure to Launch – Atlantis Crewwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox News
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 3, 2010 | Geekery
I love this little animation of Oxygen trying to make friends with other molecules. More please! (Doff o’ the hat to Phil Plait.)