The initial popular vote tally will make the race look closer on election night than it really is. This is because some Western states, such as Washington and Ohio do a large portion (41%) of their vote by mail, and because the polls close later on the West Coast, which means that popular vote will not be tallied until way after a candidate is projected to win. In 2008, Obama was projected to win when the popular vote count was 50-50 — he ended up with 53.6 percent of the vote, which is an enormous difference. You can read about it here. http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/109533/the-popular-vote-nightmare

Not only does Paul Brown have a B.S in chemistry (which isn't hard to believe, as he is full of B.S), he has an M.D from a real, accredited university. So the next time you think that your colleague is an idiot, use this to give you a little perspective.

Gillette sponsors a team of astronomers to find a planetary system of five stars. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/ [Link contains strong language that may be considered NSFW]

DARPA did not create the internet to survive a nuclear attack. To quote David Wheeler,

Source: http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html

Using human labor gives Apple much more flexibility to make changes to their products, because it is much easier to teach a human a new skill than it is to reprogram a robot for a task it was not designed to do. This was perfectly illustrated with the first iPhone; Jobs demanded a switch to gorilla glass from plastic (not a trivial demand) just six weks before the iPhone was scheduled to be released. you can read about it here http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-22/tech/30652107_1_foxconn-iphones-apple-executives.

With a name like "Bi-Fi", and an article summary that includes the phrase "Bi-Fi could help bio-engineers create complex, multicellular communities that work together to carry out important biological functions", I knew immediately that this technology was created in California.

When a person has a medical excuse for not knowing their ass from their elbow.

Actually, the first drone (U.S. Predator MQ-1) vs. manned fighter jet (Iraqi MiG-25) dogfight happened in 2002. At the time, the U.S. was using Predators to bait Iraqi fighters and then run (Israel had successfully done something similar against Egypt and Syria in the early 1980s using F-4s as bait). The MiG engaged the Predator, and the Predator, which was armed with Stinger missiles, did not run. Both both fired missiles at each other. The Predator missed; the MiG didn't. You can see a video of the dogfight here http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76a_1173456397 [CBS video hosted on liveleak.com], and read about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Persian_Gulf_War [wikipedia.org].