Friday, October 27, 2006

Dissentular squawkage


Recent comments of interest...

JUST DO THE MATH
Given the assumptions that each vampire would attack one human per month and that the first vampire struck in 1600, vampires would have exterminated the human race by 1602, [Professor of Physics Costas] Efthimiou calculated.

…[Efthimiou] said his work has provoked angry messages from people, including some with “.edu” in their e-mail addresses, who cling to their conceptions that vampires exist….

One person, Efthimiou said, criticized his failure to account for Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s role in keeping the vampire population in check.
It’s Halloween Weekend on Campus


JESUS DON'T CUT GRASS
"Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn't going to come along and cut your grass."
More straight talk from [Bill] Cosby


OO, I FEEL A CALL
[T]here is not a chance that the reported low sperm counts among heavy cell phone users, reported at the ASRMC in New Orleans on Sunday, had anything to do with cell phone radiation. The wavelength is far too long…It's too small to affect sperm, even if you put the phone in your underpants.

Ashok Agarwal of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, studied 364 men at a fertility clinic in Mumbai, India. The real question is what they talk about for four hours a day.
What’s New? – 10/27


RUSH, YOU’RE KILLING US
Last week the list of ills attributable to obesity grew: fat people cause global warming.

This latest contribution to the obesity debate comes in an article by Sheldon H. Jacobson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and his doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their paper...calculates how much extra gasoline is used to transport Americans now that they have grown fatter. The answer, they said, is a billion gallons a year.
Blame Cookie Monsters

1 comment:

Rebel Girl said...

Cher:

Open your school email!

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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