Humor Now this is a proper wedding ceremony 2 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 I only recently discovered 9 Chickwood Lane, which is a really odd cartoon strip with ballet dancers, veterinarians and a visiting space alien named Thorax. Before I found this (and Pibgorn, which is in the same universe), Thorax officated at the marriage of two of the characters. Being an alien,… Read More
Humor Dr Horrible 18 Jul 2008 I miss Buffy. I miss Mal Reynolds. I really miss Kaylee. Most of all I miss Joss Whedon’s sparkling entertainment. So go watch Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog, now! Read More
Humor Jon Stewart is the New Socrates 23 Oct 2007 According to a book mentioned by Greg Dahlman at blog.bioethics.net. He notes that this makes Stephen Colbert Plato. I think it makes Hilary Clinton Aristotle, and Richard Dawkins Epicurus, although the sequence is a bit messed up. Read More
This is the best part: When you go to the cartoon, on its page, the image’s title element in the HTML shows up when you mouse over it. It reads “Birds are Aves, which is part of the clade Theropoda, which is in Saurischia, which is in Dinosauria. Those birds outside our windows are dinosaurs. We can clear out the rest of our brains because we now have the best fact.”
This was picked up by Pharyngula and Panda’s Thumb simultaneously. I put it down to simple envy of theropod neontology, easily the best of the taxon-based sciences.