Remember all the Eurosnobs who made such a big deal about the American reaction to Janet Jackson's flash at the 2004 SuperBowl? "So what? Big deal!" they said. "Such a thing wouldn't even turn heads in 'enlightened Europe'", they said. Well, it turns out that they're just a bunch of hypocrites after all. Surprised?
As if the idiocy of Xians wasn't bad enough already, it appears that a group is mobilizing against SpongeBob SquarePants. There's really nothing else that needs to be said...
...and you thought the Bush twins were challenged...
Less than a week after this story, in which the teeming Slashdot hordes declared global warming indisputable and likened global warming deniers to holocaust deniers, comes this interesting development: the famous "hockey stick"is an artifact of poor mathematical technique. It turns out that if you improperly normalize your data, you can always find a hockey stick. The scientists who discovered this submitted their findings to Nature, who decided that it wasn't important enough to publish. I'm sure their decision wasn't influenced by politics at all.