These interactive charts from the Pew Survey on religion are excellent. They are useful and convey lots of information quickly.

Out Of The Park Baseball is a hardcore baseball for sim for serious baseball geeks. I haven’t played in a couple of years, but on a lark last night downloaded the demo for OOTP 8 to see if it would run on Ubuntu under Wine.
Not only does it run, it runs far faster than I […]

In Fredericksburg VA it’s illegal to feed the bears, even if they steal the food. If a bear climbs your fence and helps himself to the bird feeder, you can be charged with illegally feeding wildlife.
I’d make a snarky comment, but what can I say? This level of ridiculousness stands on its own.

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It brings up an interesting quandary for baseball in that the official rules do not seem to dictate who chooses sides first, the pitcher or the batter. Given that you can change the pitcher after the batter has been announced, and that batter must face the new pitcher, the intent of the rule seems to […]

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George Carlin is no longer with us. That sucks. The Big Picture collected a lot of his best bits from YouTube in one blog post.
His records were an important part of early teenage years. He seemed so subversive to us in the late 70s and early 80s. Then later as an adult I realized he […]

Since all the cool bloggers are doing it…
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Sorry Kris, I seem to have stolen a few hits from your site.(11 in the last week)
chris o’donnell naked
And various other spellings of my last name. If I had a dollar for every disappointed person that came here via that search, I’d have a […]

Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise” – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
Strike 1 for Obama
(tags: news obama politics)

Via Daryl, if you can’t smile while reading this you are probably at the wrong blog.