Dribs & drabs

Today is Lincoln's and Darwin's birthday, so how do you celebrate? Apparently, for one guy the logical thing to do was dress up as Ben Franklin and fly a kite on the Peabody lawn. I'm sorry I missed seeing this.

Crappy thing to happen to crappy research. Uh, sorry, couldn't resist.

Bring back the CCC!

Stereotype threat is everywhere! A couple of weeks ago I saw a presentation by the guy who recently did a study on Barack Obama and stereotype threat. Now, here's a novel application: athletes.

Does the name LoJack sound like something out of a William Gibson novel to anyone else?

One last thing - jerk elk gets comeuppance.