Here’s Steven Levitt, author of the betseller Freakonomics – you can even find that book in Costarrican supermarkets now – talking to the hilarious Stephen Colbert.
Colbert does the confident idiot act so perfectly that it’s almost hard to forget he’s not.
Not a lot of economic insight on that interview, but worth it if just for the quick exposure to Levitt’s ideas.
I’ve always been disturbed by parasites that can take over your body and alter your physiology and behavior in subtle ways. Wasps, for instance, lay eggs on the bodies of caterpillars, which then alter the caterpillar’s behavior so that instead of eventually turning into pupa, it continues eating until it bursts with the wasp’s young.
Now some people are theorizing that cats toxoplasma gondii, which lives in cats, alters not only the behavior of rats but of humans as well.
While the science of the experiement sounds speculative at this stage, it’s still an interesting reading for an example of the subtle, chaotic interactions between us and our environment.
I just read on CNN that a tiger attacked and killed a woman during a photo shoot.
No shit! It’s a huge feline savage predator, its instinct driven in through millenia of evolution, and people get surprised when it doesn’t act like a cute pussycat. Ten years from now the headline will be Pet Velociraptor Mangles Toddler.
One of the nastiest pieces ever in The Onion is also one of their funniest.
My friend Jose Ulloa just sent me this South Park version of myself. I thought it was pretty apropos.
So I get today my used copy of The Devil’s Candy, a book about the massive failure of The Bonfire of the Vanities as a movie, printed in 1992.
The Kirkus Reviews blurb on the back reads:
I bet whomever wrote that is now pretty damned glad he didn’t use as fun as instead of like.
It’s always the deceptively simple games that end up being more addictive than crack. And speaking of which, check out Hey Crackhead if feel like some laughs (you’re a crackhead. Why don’t you own a crackpipe?).
Both links were obtained from Marc Cendella’s blog.
Now that Sinfest has become repetitive, you can take a break and enjoy The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu. It starts kind of boring, but after the first 10 cartoons or so it really picks up. You can perfectly picture The Colour out of Space hanging out with Div.
See Tyler.
See Tyler run.
See Tyler run to set the game developer facility on fire.
They didn’t even pay attention to the no shirt, no shoes rule.