Only the inhaling from one hour of NPR’s Morning Edition (mp3)

Only the Obscenities from NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” (mp3). (the full album gets this treatment here)

There are lots more obsessive-compulsive collections like this over at Waxy

The world’s major source of helium is projected to last only eight years. Surprisingly, helium is a non-renewable resource. Given its importance in many scientific applications, I can’t imagine that helium-filled party balloons will be commonplace for much longer.

You have to burn the rope

Are you voting for Barack Obama because he is black, or Hillary Clinton because she is a lady?

I Married a Republican: There, I Said It

Rude people will never stop being jerks. We cannot ever, ever, EVER hope for this. The history of human religion and ethics has been thousands of years of “Hey maybe we could stop being jerks to each other?” which is almost universally met by a bunch of people going “Okay, sounds good, OH WAIT JK LOLCRUSADES!!!!1!”

via MeFi

Seriously? WTF?

About 20 folks at a Chicago precinct were given styluses designed for touch-screen machines instead of ink pens. When voters complained the devices made no marks on their paper ballots, a ballot judge told them the markers were full of invisible ink. . . Allen said the both the voters and the judge believed the invisible ink theory.

via AP

Holy Shit. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo

Obama raised 32 million in January alone. Also notable: His campaign has over 650,000 donors thus far. That sounds like people-powered politics to me.

I think Jorge Cham can read my mind.

As seen on reddit:

Here’s a stimulus plan; END THE FUCKIN’ WAR YOU DUMBASS

Best Scrabblegram ever

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote. Some incredible effects with some low budget methods.

[A]s much as people like to talk about the Internet revolutionizing politics, the measure they’re still using is the ability of the web to improve the efficiency with which candidates can funnel money from supporters to traditional media advertising purchases. This is progress?

– Anil Dash

These folks aren’t going to spend 10 years in a postdoc, waiting for something to happen. If we want to keep them in science — some of them at least — we need to offer them some other options. Soon.

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Mom, didn’t I know the swedish chef?

The Straight Dope: On the Fahrenheit scale, do 0 and 100 have any special significance?. Yeah, why does water boil at 212 degrees?

Where the F*ck is Carmen Sandiego? Language not safe for work.

Cursor*10 , a very clever little flash game.

They were 11 when Bush became president,” he often says of young voters. “Some don’t remember that a president can be articulate. They don’t remember that the federal government worked. And the saddest thing was that they don’t remember that our country was well respected around the world.” Al Franken, former funny guy, is a serious candidate.