Thursday's Brain has no finesse...

Goddess, this gets long. But I've promised myself that I will not fire up the RSS reader more than twice a day, and the second time only for those items that are NSFW, like Fleshbot (remember, NSFW!) or Tokyo Library.

Here's todays news in two digestible sections. I've put today's Fafblog link into the shrill section as he has certainly lost SAN staring at the cold, uncaring stars, but he's become so funny about it.

( Shrill! )

( Fun and Useful )

A new term. Learn it. Live it.

PZ Myers has created an important new term:

SIWOTI Syndrome.

Dude, now that's a diagnosis!

Big Gadget, This Is Little Tool. We've Got Ourselves A Situation

I just heard a blurb on Marketplace, the "business" show that frequently lives side-by-side with NPR's All Things Considered, that tomorrow's show will have an article entitled Scientists, businessmen, and evolution. I want to reserve judgment, but the audio blurb that followed the announcement was a woman's voice saying only this: "If you question Darwinism that's it, your career is over."

This does not fill me with hope.