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I have no idea why I thought of this song, but I feel a need to rant…
This is most likely my least favorite song of all time. They played it every freaking hour on the radio back in 1980. These guys made the Knack seem talented. Bad lyrics, bad music, bad [...]

From Wired.com:
2. Schrödinger’s cat
A cat is trapped in a box with radioactive material, a Geiger counter, and a mechanism rigged to release poison if particle decay is detected. According to Erwin Schrödinger, the cat exists in two probable states. But that doesn’t track with reality (cats are not both alive and dead). Proposed in 1935, [...]

Great article from David Wong - why 99.99999% of the world’s population are “one-dimensional characters” to us:
Picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if you wish. We’ll call him Slappy.
Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey [...]

From WTF:

From SFGate:

When Claudette Soden put up a sign asking motorists to beep for Jesus outside her business in Naugatuck, Conn., fellow business owner Phil Young took exception. He thought it smacked of religious intolerance, so he erected his own sign.
Follow-up - from the Hartford Courant:
A local zoning dispute has become for some a battle [...]

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From Nearing Zero: