Michael B. Duff

Just watched this episode and it's horrible. An unfunny embarrassment for both sides.

"One of the many tree-lined, paved streets in the city of Lubbock. Lubbock has 797 blocks of street paving, totaling 67 miles. Lubbock is truly a city beautiful."

"Nick is a bit of a sphinx on purpose. He has some of the attributes of the dork who wraps his Asperger's around him like a cloak." — Joel Johnson, Gizmodo writer

He said China could also influence the value of other world currencies because they have a “chronic trade surplus”, which means the Chinese have a lot of foreign currencies. “They control not only their own currency but actually the entire global currency system,” he said.

"Without any taxes, accepting that editor’s assignment would have yielded my children an extra $10,000. With taxes, it yields only $1,000. In effect, once the entire tax system is taken into account, my family’s marginal tax rate is about 90 percent. Is it any wonder that I turn down most of the money-making opportunities I am offered?"

Scarlett, she sneered, couldn’t read. Her Payless and Gap shoes weren’t good enough. She wasn’t “allowed” to play with certain girls. Lila was forming a band, and Scarlett couldn’t be a part. One girl threatened to physically hurt her. During recess, Lila would loom over Scarlett, arms crossed, and say, “I’m watching you.”

The changes could include Obama's backing of proposals to cut payroll taxes temporarily, which could save companies billions, according to company executives, economic advisers, and White House aides. If his deficit commission in December recommends a debt-shrinking package of spending cuts and tax code changes, including corporate tax reform, Obama may support it, the people say. The White House may also consider naming a CEO to a Cabinet job if one opens up or may give someone business finds credible the role of counselor, with a wide-ranging portfolio, they say.

"After Friday's surprisingly anemic payrolls report, the increased likelihood the Fed will buy more assets like Treasury bonds to stimulate the economy has investors ignoring the usual benchmarks."

It's not often that malware like Stuxnet comes around. Stuxnet appears to be the new black at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference, currently ongoing in Vancouver. Everyone's talking about it.

A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran's first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday.

"Eh, it's just another Starbucks, and NASA is only following the government regulations that prevent them from endorsing businesses."

Magnificent anti-hipster video, UK version. Obviously contains bad language.

it has now been made accessible free of charge to anyone with a copy of Google Earth. By grabbing the KMZ, you can not only view all objects tracked in real-time, but you can also click on them to get more information on the specific satellite, including viewing its orbit trajectory. It's an excellent educational tool for the space-curious.

For homo sapiens, this is normal – having "no" blood type, i.e. blood without antigens in it, just means a person has Type O blood – a fairly common occurrence for us. But among the "humans" on Battlestar Galactica, apparently no one had Type O blood; everyone had A and B types. The Cylons, however, apparently had Type O blood, which is a mutation of Type A blood, Di Justo said. These facts imply that modern humans, with our diversity of blood types, are descended from both the Battlestar humans and the Cylons, in the universe of the show.

Dear Tea Party: It's called a Block button. Use it. Liberally. If you'll excuse the pun.

You get what's happening here? She's a national celebrity! An icon! She's also a prisoner surrounded by a permanent traveling jail cell. But I guess there are worse ways for a spy to retire.

"The schemes generally involved the payment of kickbacks to purportedly corrupt pension fund managers or stockbrokers, who would use their clients' accounts to purchase the publicly traded stock," the SEC said in a statement.