scott adams - not funny for many years, and now with added moron!

PZ Myers has fun kicking Scott Adams (creator of the not-funny-for-at-least-5-years Dilbert) here. PZ is actually a scientist, and has spent far too long kicking the ID/creationist charlatans in the head. It's a pretty brutal beating.

Adams provides a classic example of the "I don't know jack shit about science, but here's my opinions on evolution anyway, since obviously total ignorance is a good basis for an opinion" style of piece. It's quite, quite tragically awful.

I could have sworn that part of the point of Dilbert was to mock this sort of stupidity.

I will be loading the dishwasher more carefully from now on...

Man dies in freak dinner plate accident

A Victorian man bled to death after accidentally cutting his throat with a broken dinner plate, ambulance paramedics say.

The bizarre accident occurred about 6.10pm yesterday, when the 57-year-old Point Lonsdale man finished dinner and was taking the leftovers outside to give to his dog, the Geelong Advertiser reported.

The man fell while carrying food on a bowl or plate, said Rural Ambulance spokesperson Jessica Li.

"The bowl shattered and somehow cut him across the neck," Ms Li said.

"It's horrible. What are the chances the plate is going to break and you are going to fall on it that way?"

The man was unconscious when paramedics arrived, and they were unable to revive him, said Ms Li.

She said he bled to death.

"I know it was family members that called triple-zero and I'm sure they were trying to do what they could, but once we arrived there was nothing we could do," she said.

- AAP

decisions, decisions

So the next tattoo (birthday present to self) is going to be this:



Now, the decision - do I make the fist red and flower black (as it is in the original), all black (in which case I suspect the flower will get lost) or black fist, red flower? The original mescaline flower is white, as far as I know - white tattoos don't exactly work, though.

[update here's what it looks like all black, and black with just the flower red]

the preznit, he be sinking

snaffled from here, found via Majikthise.