Critical Thinking
Krusty the Clown as a child
How to piss off a frog
(Not) understanding Miles Per Hour. I imagine they broke up soon after.
Rock and Roll map
Incredible pic of the Southern Lights from the International Space Station
Batman cruising in Maryland
The man who broke Atlantic City
218 reasons to vote for Obama, from Forbes
Anger Issues
Harry Potter, with the save
Honest t-shirt
Let me get that for you
There’s the guy Daddy!
Automobile polo, from the good ol’ days
Scare yourself every day – 365 days of doing something that scares you.
The end of the world
TSA body scanners are worthless. Just paint contraband black.
That’s not snow. That’s spiderwebs.
Honestly false advertising
Truth is laid on Batman
Ethan Albright’s letter to John Madden
Nurture Shock:: What is the latest science saying about parenting? A lot. And you don’t know most of it. How does language acquisition actually work? You know sleep is important, but how important. Having your kids lie to you can be a good thing. Each chapter takes a slice and educates you. The only bad part about this book is the realization of how many things you are doing wrong because you didn’t know any better.
Catch me if You Can: You’ve seen the movie. The book is better.
Theodore Roosevelt: It is impossible to convey how interesting a man Theodore Roosevelt was. A man who started the national parks, started anti-trusts, was an active combatant in the Spanish-American war and can make a reasonable claim to having personally won it, Nobel Peace Prize winner, tracked down smugglers through the wastelands of Dakota, had the highest approval ratings ever recorded (above 90%), built America’s Navy into a world power, a professional historian and naturalist, and was easily our sexiest president. And more. Yes, all that and more. I linked to one book of the Edmund Morris trilogy, but all three should be read.
I Love you Beth Cooper: I never stopped laughing. Easily one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. A comprehensive look at Cancer throughout human history, and the attempts to treat it. A seemingly boring topic is anything but, as the struggle has been going on for hundreds of years, and pits all of humanities cleverness against a wily and implacable adversary. As time goes on, treatments become less about the person than about their cels and genes. Because of this, the last third of the book is more dry and scientific, and harder to understand. (Except for Mrs. Muttrox, who was making corrections in the margins.)
Well over $100 million. Whoopie doo for me!
Too much awesome in this 2011 compilation
Warren Buffett explains gold investing. As always, incredibly clear and insightful.
I need a girl
The end of MacGyver
How greeting cards get written (interview)
How casinos distract you
70s rock stars with their parents
Tom Brady fail made me giggle
Kissing Hanks Ass. Still a classic.
Michael Jordan career highlights
This girl is bringing the crazy
Swede survives for two months in his snowed-in car
This is how statistics should be taught
License plate on a hearse
A neat cover of Everlong, one of my favorite songs evah.
Reaction shot to Luke, I am your Father
Teaching grammar
This is a very good article on how analytics are used in the NBA. Fans of Moneyball will especially enjoy it.
An economist named David Berri, citing a stat he created called Wins Produced, which boils down a player’s positive and negative contributions into one number, went so far as to argue that KG was the NBA’s best player in every season from 2002-03 to 2005-06.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the ESPN analytics issue.
I’m a simple man. I like to use soap. Not hand lotion or body lotion or whatever trendy people call the stuff, I just want ordinary soap. So I was confused by Caesar’s Palace. They had both a skincare bar and a cleansing bar.
Which one was the soap? Come to think of it, what’s the difference between a skincare bar and a cleansing bar? I turned them over to see if there were any clues.
They’re the same thing! The list of ingredients is the exact same thing for both! How wonderful! Caesar’s Palace, handed packaging the exact same thing with two different product names. Hey, Caesar. How about you quit messing around and just put out a bar of soap? And maybe some shaving cream while you’re at it.
I get a lot of dumb solicitations at work. This is one of the best.
Really? A whole company, just to sell an automated signature? Give me a break.
The waffle at Caeser’s Palace. Complete with a portrait of Julius Caesar in the middle.
Amazing. Amazing because I had said to myself , “For $19, this waffle had better have a #$@*@! picture of Caesar on it!”
Putting away the Pats gear
My only Superbowl commentary: Madonna on the shoulders of a bald man
The Beatles: ready to make history
Monopoly is an old game
The page turner. I never get tired of these Rube Goldberg devices.
Work it: The review. The show was cancelled shortly after.
Death Star Assault. I giggled the whole time.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’.
Geeks vs. Non-Geeks. Very true.
Incredible bike “accident” in Brazil. Commentary.
5 top deathbed regrets. Powerful.
Makers of Xbox threaten mass suicide over working conditions.
A great review of Never say Never
At AI research headquarters…
The power of coincidence
Can’t wait for this movie.
If you’ve ever sold anything on Craigslist you can sympathize.
O no, I really just did that
Telling your son the worst swear word
Fantastic prank on someone who gave out their phone number
How to live longer
The Muppets defend themselves from Fox News
Letter to solider
Jack is funny
How to report the news
I love being in Las Vegas! Lots of action riding tonight. Here are the bets I have riding on today’s game.
The best bets are the crazy ones!
Mrs. Muttrox is also betting the Pats win by 8 or more and that the Pats score first. I have several squares in a $10 game, and we are introducing the kids to it tonight with a ten-cent version. This is wasted money for me, as I am a statistical freak in squares, having never one a dime despite buying 10-15% of squares in ~20 different games.
What’s that? What is Muttrox’s prediction. I refuse to make one!
