Archive for August 12th, 2008
Hmmm…Guild Tabard Shirts
SwagDog will soon be offering the ability to create custom World of Warcraft Guild Tabard shirts. Nice.
The Pseudoscience of Anti-Doping Measures
The August 7, 2008 issue of Nature has an article by a biostatistician and an accompanying editorial criticizing task the logical and scientific assumptions behind anti-doping tests commonly used in sports.
Donald Berry’s article, The Science of Doping, is interesting because it looks at the methods used to take away the Tour de France championship of [...]
Cokie Roberts — Still An Idiot
Media Matters has a transcript of the August 10 edition of ABC’s This Week in which Cokie Roberts continues to establish her credentials as one of the dumbest talking heads,
ROBERTS: Yeah, that he has certainly come nowhere near closing the deal. As we’ve talked about before, in this year that should be such a Democratic [...]
Downloadable Demo of World of Warcraft Collectible Miniatures Game
Upper Deck has posted a downloadable PDF demo of its upcoming World of Warcraft collectible miniatures game. Looks nice. I don’t play CMGs, though, just collect them (though I may make an exception for Monsterpocalypse).
Black Canary Barbie
Ah yes, the Black Canary Barbie scheduled to hit stores this Fall, along with a Catwoman, Supergirl, Poison Ivy, Batgirl and Wonder Woman Barbie. I’ve actually got quite a few of the previous releases of DC-related Barbies. The problem is my kids tease me to no end about these — the reliable “they’re not dolls, [...]
What Passes for Art
This AFP story on an art museum mishap has to have one of funniest open paragraphs in recent memory,
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the [...]
