I used to work at Arizona State University for the College of Education Computer Support. The job was sweet; it paid for grad school and had a hefty stipend attached. I wasn’t even a grad student at the time and it wasn’t really a job I was qualified for; I had taken some A+ and […]

So this guy apparently hadn’t made up his mind as to whether or not Waterboarding is a form of torture. In the pursuit of scientific knowledge (and probably ego inflation) He decides to waterboard himself. He posts about it on the straight dope forums (a bastion of cognitive reasoning and pretension that actually predates McSweeny’s). […]

How many playpen balls would it take to fill your apartment?: It would take 61228 balls to fill my apartment bed room to the lip of my window sill costing me about $2449.12. I find this fantastic and more than reasonable. Tinkertots carries the sort of industrial strength crush proof ball […]