Swans on Tea

Do Pre-Meds Really Need That Year of Organic Chemistry?
Feel free to replace this, mentally, with physics, and it can be applied to other endeavors. But here’s a joke that was posted on this topic at slashdot (which I found via another conduit)
A college physics professor was explaining a concept to his class when a [...]

OK, so Microsoft has come out with it’s “I’m a PC” ad, and it’s supposed to be a counter for the Apple “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads. Except it isn’t.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball sums it up pretty well
The high concept of Apple’s long-running “Get a Mac” TV campaign is that the [...]

Greg Laden has some valid beefs in The Truth Is In There
Yes, the LHC people should have disclosed the faulty transformer immediately. It was an absolute mistake not to do so. No disagreement there.
However,
The hubris. It hurts. That these scientists think that they can and should do this is wrong and, frankly, scary. [...]