ID, please
Why, yes. Yes, I am 21. Here’s my ID.
DEA agent shoots himself in the foot, sues DEA
No kidding. A DEA agent shoots himself in the foot during a gun safety demonstration, immediately after informing the crowd that he was the only one in the room professional enough to handle a gun, then sues the DEA when the video makes the rounds on the internet.
Hat tip to overlawyered.com.
Instapundit: What people in Hell have on their iPods
From Instapundit: WHAT PEOPLE IN HELL have on their iPods.
I laughed out loud.
Watch your whole life Flash before your eyes
A Flash animation showing life is but a vapor.
More fun with the flu
Scientists searching for hard data on how a pandemic might spread are looking to Where’s George, an internet site that tracks the movement of currency. EurekAlert! has the story:
Using a popular internet game that traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country. This model is considered a breakthrough in the field.
“We were confident that we could learn a lot from the data collected at the www.wheresgeorge.com bill-tracking website, but the results turned out far beyond our expectations,” said Lars Hufnagel, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-author of an article describing the research in the January 26 issue of the journal Nature.
This story has overwhelmed the servers at Where’s George, so it’s been a bit hard to test out. I loaded the one dollar I had in my wallet (pitiful) into the system, but so far I’m unable to see whether it took. Go try it for yourself.
For more fun with flu, see last year’s post The Perfect Circle of Spotlessness.
Saturday Night Live’s skit on Medicare Part D
Saturday Night Live on Medicare Part D.
Get on the drug train!
Hat tip to Garlo Ward, P.C.
The Mathematical Genius of Volpundit
Congratulations to math wiz Volpundit, who was the first to correctly identify the trick behind the Can This Website Read Your Mind post.
Volpundit’s explanation is in the comment section of the post, so follow the link to read it. He (or she) added a second comment, on the same theme as my earlier Tennessee Volunteers Score 98 Points - In Six Games post and the suspicious powdery substance bit that’s been floating around the internet in the last several days:
And here’s some more math for you…
Reggie Bush’s TDs this season minus one = Tennessee’s touchdowns this season.
Ugh. I also heard on the radio yesterday, I think, that one of the South Carolina wide receivers has something like nine touchdowns this year. That sounds like more TDs than Tennessee’s entire offense, though I haven’t taken the time to look it up. Sounds like a job for Volpundit.
Anyway, high praise to the magnificent mathematical genius of Volpundit.
The Shining: The Feel Good Movie of 1980
If you’ve ever seen The Shining, I think you’ll find this hilarious. It’s also very instructive on the question of perspective and selectivity.
