I truly thought the world was about to end last week when I heard about Baconnaise.  Mayonnaise fully embodies everything that is wrong with the world today.  Concerned for the well-being of the fabric of reality (as I have no place else, currently, to store my stuff), I wrote an impassioned email to J&D, the […]

There is one substance that, although some otherwise intelligent adults seem to think it’s edible, I find to be unspeakably vile.  That putrid semi-congealed spread is mayonnaise.  It can ruin almost any food merely with its touch.  I would, in most cases, throw away a sandwich touched by mayo rather than get it anywhere near […]

I like to think I’m fairly well prepared for our impending doom.  I have a plan to save myself during the zombie apocalypse.  I know there’s nothing we can do to stop our robot overlords unless we resume aboveground nuclear testing in an effort to create a giant, radioactive, fire-breathing dinosaur saviour.  But there’s one […]

Today, physicists over at CERN are going to flip the switch that will either tell us important things about the nature of the universe, or destroy all life as we know it, depending on who you ask.  In honor of this auspicious event (and a big thanks to Sarah of the Two-Headed Blog for pointing […]

We are obviously teaching out students the wrong things. Take this model, built by a student for his senior project:

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We stand on the brink of Robopocalypse.
The robots definitely stand ready. I’ve mentioned their initial tentative strikes against their human former masters more than once. And now, armed with weapons given them by our own military, killbots in Iraq immediately turned on their organic allies in a clear attempt to fire the first […]

I was talking to my boss the other day about blogging. He’s extremely tech-savvy, and the conversation really was related to work. I mentioned the kinds of things I tend to blog about, and he immediately said “You’ve seen Big Dog, right?”
I hadn’t, so he felt the need to enlighten me. And […]

Jessika sent to a review of J. Michael Straczynski’s script for the upcoming World War Z movie. I absolutely loved the book; it is hands down the best zombie fiction I have ever read. Max Brooks really put his finger on what the zombie war will really be all about, from a wide […]

I don’t really have to say a whole lot about this movie, do I? I mean, you see the title, and you know immediately if you want to see it. There’s no mystery or ambiguity here. Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane pretty much says it all: it is, […]

It’s good that there are people like my friend Litch around, or I would miss news stories like this.
It looks like the book reviewers over at the New York Times are in league with the robots who will conquer us all. In an effort to hide the very real threat of mechanical annihilation, they […]