New TMBG

They Might Be Giants droppin' Rudolf Carnap on ya. Is logical positivism the go-to movement for "up with science" pop culture? Here's Carnap's entry in Wikipedia, for the curious.

As for the rest of the song, I can imagine the outrage is already bubbling.

You Guys

You are just so great:

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

In a World Without Inflection...

Tired of people misinterpreting your blog posts and twitters?
Want people to only get more upset at the things you meant them to?
Need to present everything you write at face value?

Why not use the backward italics?

Good for all your written sarcasm needs.

via Scanners

What did John Hodgman say?

Oh, yeah, NEEEEEEERD!

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Mockumentary - Photo Pose Evolution

"Politians Are Like Diapers"*

(*Misspelling intentional... on my part, anyway.)

RIP, Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze died on Monday at the age of 57.

News reports are going on and on about Dirty Dancing and Ghost, but I think his most remarkable professional achievement was being the only good part about having to sit through Donnie Darko.

The TRUTH!

Click it for the rest, if you want.

When Where is When

Siskoid explains the Prophets:

In a nutshell, it is this: The Prophets perceive time as simultaneous the same way we perceive space. With one look, they see all of time much as you can look at the entire room you're in. This is a useful metaphor to understand just what is going on inside that Wormhole.

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Here's a question: When did they send the Orbs to Bajor that gave them their colorful monicker? Answer: It's a "when" for us, but it's a "where" for them. Think of the world of the Prophets (the Wormhole and areas of space they can survey from it) as a continually updating reality. ... If we could be made aware of the timeline as a single room, we would see that they put the Orb on a certain shelf. As linear beings, we call that shelf the past though the information comes from another corner of the room which we call the present or future.

And there's plenty more at the link.

Sense Memory

James Franco teaches his brother how to act:

Acting With James Franco Episode 1: "Sense Memory" from James Franco

(Video 1 of 4. This first one is the funniest, in my estimation.)