Warner Will Retire
Senator Warner has announced that he will not run for re-election next year. A sad day for Virginia.
Senator Warner has announced that he will not run for re-election next year. A sad day for Virginia.
For any of you who have not been following the 54 million dollar pants story, this is your lucky day. Because it seems to have finally come to an end, and because
Today in Science Express, some MIT scientists announced experimental confirmation for a method of relatively efficient non-radiative wireless power transmission. Basically, they lit up a 60W lightbulb even though the power source was 2 meters away without making anyone sterile in the process, and it only took 150W of power to pull it off. Imagine [...]
An aide to our very own Jim Webb was arrested the other day for trying to carry a loaded pistol along with 2 loaded ammo clips into the US Senate office building. Maybe someone should let the Capitol Police know that in Virginia, this is perfectly normal, accepted practice.
If you want people to be smarter, all you have to do is tell them that they can make themselves smarter. Yeah, sounds ridiculous, right? But check it out. It’s a given that most people think that intelligence is fixed – some people are just smarter. Maybe it’s genetics, and maybe it’s upbringing, but once [...]
Someone or something named Morgan Quinto did a ranking of states by “smartness.” They used a variety of measures, such as percentage of high school graduates, college graduates, test scores, education funding, class sizes, education costs, and that sort of thing. Anyways, Virginia ranked 6th, which is pretty damn good (there are a total of [...]
Virginia is now officially a swing state. According to that article, the national Republican party is starting to concentrate their efforts (read: money) on 3-4 senate races: Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey, and, yes, Virginia. This is significant in that it means they are to some degree abandoning Montana, Ohio (the focus of the article), Pennsylvania [...]
A Virginian kid just graduated from UVA in 1, count ‘em 1 year. He double majored in Math and Physics. He is 18, and came in with 72 AP credits (he took the tests without taking the associated classes). 23 credits in the fall, 37 in the spring, and 3 in the summer. He said [...]
Allen and Webb had a debate yesterday on Meet The Press. It took up the entire 1 hour show, and it is available online to watch for free, here. Under the big ugly picture of the two candidates, it says “Click here to watch Sunday’s entire show.” Click on that. Even though it looks like [...]
Here’s some MLP (Mindless Link Propogation) for you. Former governor Mark Warner and possible 2008 Presidential candidate made a campaign stop in Second Life, the MMORPG (massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game) which I know almost nothing about, but which always seems to have mildly famous people showing up in it. This kind of blew my mind – it may [...]
I decided to check out digg.com this evening as is my custom every 2 minutes, and here’s what I found at the very top: “3 out of 4 women now prefer a plasma tv to a diamond… THANK YOU GOD” “The study found 77 percent of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma television to [...]
We all remember the recent Governor’s race in Virginia. We remember how Kilgore warned us about how Kaine would love to have saved Hitler from defeat in World War II. How if, given the chance, he would gladly have pardoned perhaps the most evil man in history from the death penalty. Well, now all of [...]
This is important and exciting news. Meta-news, really. Virginia is finally in the news for something good. No mention of our ridiculous lawmakers embarassing themselves, no mention of the CSA to help the readers find us on a map, nothing but good old fashioned math news. Congrats to Gaurav!
Hey there. How are you? You look good. I know, I can’t believe it’s been so long since we’ve seen each other either. It’s just, you know. Work’s been crazy, and I’ve been out of town, and I just haven’t had a chance to call. I hope you haven’t been lonely. Oh, I’m sorry. I [...]
Yesterday I wasted a lot of time over at ytmnd.com and though I would share with you the fruits of my labour. Make sure you’ve got sound on for these. The wikipedia article explaining ytmnd’s Of course the original. Chunk is indestructible feat. Captain Picard. The Nooooo’ller coaster Batman: ualuealuealeuale The emosong Ducktails in japanese [...]