Pan­el two rais­es a point I had not con­sid­ered before. Very amus­ing.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Debunk a Fright­en­ing Myth

I wrote this one in the days lead­ing up to Com­ic-Con. I don’t think I need to explain beyond th…

This is one thing I miss about read­ing books on a Kin­dle — I have less flex­i­bil­i­ty in how I mark them up. On the plus side, it’s eas­i­er to snag a ver­ba­tim quote.

Anno­tat­ing Texts: Some Sug­ges­tions (with Pic­tures!)

A friend of mine who is also a doc­tor­al stu­dent recent­ly asked if I had any sort of sys­tem for how I anno­tate books, par­tic­u­lar­ly pri­ma­ry texts. It was an inter­est­ing ques­tion, because anno­tat­ing book…

I love com­ic strips. “That shirt’s got more holes than a Goth chick­’s nose.” I might actu­al­ly use that line some­day.

Get Fuzzy by Dar­by Con­ley, August 26, 2012 Via @GoComics

House­cats are known to be aloof, but cat-titude reach­es new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bit­ing­ly hilar­i­ous com­ic strip from car­toon­ist Dar­by Con­ley. Avail­able dai­ly and Sun­day and appear­ing in 650 newsp…

This is kin­da cool. So there are twen­ty moments in a minute?

Do we expe­ri­ence life in 3 sec­ond chunks? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Ever won­dered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 sec­onds, accord­ing to a new study of the post-com­pe­ti­tion embraces of Olympic ath­letes. But the long answer is more pro­found. A hug last…

I would say that with the excep­tion of rule #4, this 100% applies to church sound guys. But most of them are sin­gle and are fans of rule #4 as well. 🙂

Sound booth guest rules. — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

Clips From The Web

Osborne brings his usu­al wis­dom — espe­cial­ly point 3.

SLOW DOWN – YOU MOVE TOO FAST!

Because North Coast Church has been some­what inno­v­a­tive over the years and suc­cess­ful­ly made lots of changes, I’m often asked by oth­er pas­tors and lead­ers about the best way to go about mak­ing majo.…..

If You Forget You Are Sad, Are You?

The bit about amne­sia made me laugh out loud. Wow.

Do sleep­ing pills like Ambi­en work because of the place­bo effect? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Sleep­ing pills on aver­age only make peo­ple fall asleep 12 min­utes faster and sleep 11 min­utes longer dur­ing the night. The place­bo effect m…

Depressing

Wow.

Freako­nom­ics » Speak­ing Ill of the Dead Appar­ent­ly Okay if the Dead Worked for Chick-fil‑A

Sysco is the lat­est food giant—it’s the largest food dis­trib­u­tor in the country—to come out against ges­ta­tion crate con­fine­ment of pigs. The Nation­al Pork Pro­duc­ers Coun­cil’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor w…

Lolo!

Lolo wound up plac­ing 4th. I wish she had won a medal. 

Lolo Jones can’t be sexy, Chris­t­ian and a hur­dler » GetRe­li­gion

Some read­ers sent in a recent piece from Salon, which (for those who stopped read­ing it back in the 1990s) bills itself as “the lead­ing pro­gres­sive news site, com­bin­ing award-win­ning com­men­tary and re…

Conspiracies

This is one of the best rebut­tals to a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry that I’ve ever seen.

Mon­day Morn­ing Humor

Three days ago in the sum­mer of 1969, Apol­lo 11 became the first manned mis­sion to land on the moon. One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Of course, it makes per­fect sense that the whol…