NPR buys a toxic asset Watching the value plummet through time is disturbing. -hendred
Examination of grading patterns as a function of major discipline area indicates that while grades tend to be lower across the board for science and engineering schools, part of the reason that students in these schools have relatively low grades is due simply to the fact that they take relatively more science courses (Figure 3) ... Contrary to conventional wisdom, engineering departments tend to grade significantly higher than science departments for the schools in our database.
D'oh. -hendred
Go to Macys.com In the search box, enter "Measuring poons", like you want measuring spoons but forgot the 's'. Enjoy. -hendred
I guess there's some news about this thing or they did a press release or something. We talked about it way back in 2008, but here it is, and it is awesome. -hendred
Mitt Romney tells the Tea Baggers to suck it up if they lose a primary. He's worrying about them Naderining the election. It sounds like he might want to start advocating one of the runoff/preference election schemes. Anyway, the comments are pretty darn good. Look for names like "Time to Waterboard the Republicans" and "Obama=Romney". -hendred the amused
Limbaugh promises to move to Costa Rica if the health care bill passes. Costa Rica has... wait for it... universal health care. On the plus side, he could probably get free Oxy, rather than sending his maid out for it. Disclaimer: link is to Daily Kos, home of the America-hating, godless commie terror-supporters. -hendred, wishing a call to his Senator would help
Wholesale cable channel prices. It's hard to believe Comedy Central is .14 and SPEED is .20. Subsidizing Fox News makes me something-something. Maybe I could send ESPN a buck to watch the X games... all 20 minutes worth.
Someone also broke this down in August 2008 on a cost per-viewer basis.
Semi-obligatory MR link.-hendred
The "Brutal" Oscar campaign That's brutal as in "My feet hurt and I'm tired" not "I'm starving in Africa with HIV". It's a process piece on any political campaign from mayor to President with more attractive people and issues people can easily understand.
On a side note, writing more than a paragraph about Kathryn Bigelow and not mentioning that she directed Point Break is unforgivable. -hendred
Found the original GIF over on jwz's blog. -hendred
From Brick and Ryan: I just heard about this via family living in Pittsburgh.
The man was found Sunday afternoon by one of the friend's roommates at the Pi Kappa Alpha house.
Pittsburgh people - can you keep us updated?
These are the Worst performances of the year. She 'won' for All About Steve. I think Tom Green was the last person to show up. -hendred
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