The Cult of The Steve will say he can do no wrong and, since we are being honest, I didn’t think an MP3 player when there were already 100 different MP3 players was a good idea – and his fundamentalists on the coasts pretty much lift everything he touches in a delightful wave of capitalistic frenzy.

But even he may not be able to make loaves from fishes for them this time. No camera? Good luck with that. Yes, most cameras, no matter how many pixels your phone claims to have, are rubbish, but you still have to have them.

No flash again. Come on Apple, it’s 2010. You say this is not just a more expensive Kindle but your browser won’t even handle simple stuff. Without flash, how will I play Evony? Because all their girls look like this, just like their advertising says: Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll be honest, I had no issue at all with Bill Clinton canoodling an intern in the Oval Office. Sure, he probably could have picked a time other than Easter Sunday but he’s a busy guy.

What I was most concerned about was how bad it made us look in the eyes of the world.

When Nicolas Sarkozy became newly minted President of France and decided to trade up, he got Carla Bruni.
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Let’s face it, we live in an automated world. It isn’t quite Wall-E, where we cart our obese selves around in hover chairs drinking Big Gulps while we text people in other locations and ignore the ones right next to us, but more mundane tasks have been outsourced.

For example, family trips used to mean fighting with your brother, innumerable threats by your father that he was going to pull over if you kicked the back of the driver’s seat again (a threat always difficult to reconcile with his constant updates on the need for Making Good Time but pointing that out was a bad idea) and asking how much longer it would be. Those days are long gone with the advent of in-car DVD players.

Factory work, mine sniffing, blowing the crap out of crazed fundamentalists in Pakistan? All good things for remote-controlled awesomeness.
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Yes, there are lots of fine schools in the US. Heck, Texas alone has more world-class universities than all of France. But if Stanford, Caltech or MIT seem so cliched, why not consider Denmark?

Unless you are a girl who wants to get by on general hotness, that is. Because as this video, 2nd place winner of a competition by the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, demonstrates, if even one shows up, in no time at all science will make sure the place is loaded with hot chicks. Read the rest of this entry »

Women have always had a conundrum about their breasts. Sure, they want to be more appealling, and breasts are a sure-fire way to do that, but most often the guys who notice are creepy weirdos whereas all the good ones are taken. But sometimes they aren’t taken, and nicer breasts would help. That doesn’t do a thing about the creepy weirdo problem, though.

The Slovenia-based Lisca company has a solution:
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There was once a controversy about human embryonic stem cell research – former president Bush put in place limited forms of research in 2001, to the outcry of science advocates who vilified his close-mindedness and then president Obama put in place limited forms of research on Friday and science advocates cheered the progressive thinking in his deft handling of the NIH policy.  Yeah, you are probably confused in that ‘why it was wrong for Bush to limit research in 2001 and why it is right for Obama to do it today’ thinking of people who basically just frame their science positions through their politics.

It turns out we could have solved the whole culture war mess (though would we even have science blogging without Bush?  100 years from now, historians will look back and conclude that science owes Bush a lot) by just making stem cells practical – none of this ‘maybe if we throw a lot of money at it we will cure something’ stuff but something truly beneficial for men and women, Republican and Democrat.  Namely, by using their value in breast implants and liposuction.   ALL AT ONCE.
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Ellie Kemper
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If you’re a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff.   Take Mardi Gras, for example – go to any Mardi Gras celebration and 98% of people there will be Protestants, so they haven’t fasted for Lent in over 400 years, and 85% won’t know why they are getting drunk at all, but they still act like they are getting ready to starve for 40 days – if by starving we mean not having yards of beer for 11 straight hours.  

It’s a real mystery but at least it gets people thinking about religion and its relationship to Brazilian strippers.

A few weeks later, give or take, we have St. Patrick’s day, a celebration of a guy who wanted to drive out pagan head dresses, hot wiccan chicks and drunken bacchanalia; really, everything that was great about the Celts.  Who in their right mind wants to celebrate that?

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At the University of Indianapolis, communications major Katie Stam is supposedly known for her scholarship, leadership and volunteer work – and not her great legs, despite the fact that this is the one thing virtually everyone else on planet Earth knows about her.

Why are the students and administrators at U of I so jaw-droppingly dumb? Science has no explanation for that.

She’s an aspiring journalist, which may explain their blindness. When most people see journalists, they only see sanctimonious left-wing shills who talk about the thrill that runs up their leg when they dream of Barack Obama and issue pithy platitudes like, “I’d like to say it one more time: ‘Mr. President.’”
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Carrie Prejean, Miss California, USA
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