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Following “The F*cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel”

Writing a book is probably not something you think about doing 140 characters at a time. But that’s exactly what Dan Sinker did with “The F*cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel.” He might not intended for his parody of Rahm Emanuel’s 5 month long mayoral campaign to become a book, but that’s what happened.

I originally read the @MayorEmanuel twitter feed in real time. It was one of the reasons I finally ended my boycott of twitter. The feed was hilarious then and it translated well as a book. The annotations in the book provided additional background of the characters featured in the twitter feed – both fictional and non fictional. Most tweets on their own are comedic gold, but read again in book form you can see the whole story come together. Continue reading →

Claim that Neutrinos Travel Faster than Light Highlights Need for Scientific Peer Review

So, a scientific study was published saying we had neutrinos that were moving faster than the speed of light.  That’s crazy right?  I mean, seriously, all we’re trying to say is that Einstein was full of crap.  If someone is going to try and change the way we think about fundamental physics, it’s got to  be reviewed by the best in the field.  Why else would journalists report on it?
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Daylight Savings Time: It’s Good For You?

Daylight saving time finally ends this Sunday at 2 a.m. — remember to set your clocks back one hour when you go to bed Saturday night — and for many of us, that’s depressing. The day seems to fly by. It’s dark before it’s time to start thinking about dinner.

The seven-month period of daylight saving time is mandated by governments which began implementing the time switch during World Wars I and II to save energy and resources for the war effort. From World War II until recently, daylight saving in the U.S. ran from April until mid-October. Continue reading →

Researchers Say Zombies Are Bad For Your Health

Any Sci-fi fan or Systems Administrator will tell you: Zombies are bad for business. This holds true whether your managing a theme park, a mission critical webserver, or especially the ecology of the human body. Zombie processes on a webserver are ones that are supposed to terminate but instead they hang around eating up resources and wasting processor time. The same is true in the human body. “Zombie cells” are no longer able to divide like normal cells. Instead they hang around releasing toxins and presumably making one crave human flesh and to start talking with a lisp. I may have made up that last part. Continue reading →