AP interview with Matt Damon on the possibility of Sarah Palin being President of the United States.

“I need to know if she thought dinosaurs were around 4,000 years ago.”

[Via Daily Kos]

Great website:
Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World yet?

I can almost start a new blog dedicated exclusively to iTunes issues. I’d call it “iTunes Errors” or “Fun with iTunes 8” or something similar. In fact, it’s already been done with Adobe products.

Anyway, here are five screens just from today!

Despite my recent rants, I really do love Apple products. Really!

This one was posted awhile ago, but someone brought it to my attention again. XKCD nails it.

A recent post on Twitter after yet another dropped call from my iPhone 3G.

The Large Hadron Collider will officially fire up on Wednesday morning. Contrary to popular belief, we are not all going to die or get sucked into a black hole.

To celebrate this occasion, some of the good humored folks at CERN put together a great and hilarious rap video about the LHC.

Check it out.

Yay for science!

XKCD has an amazing comic today that hits very close to home. Once upon a time, I used to date an astrophysicist and had a similar argument. It went about as well as this comic!

(Click the photo to see the original comic)

This website is nearly as old as the internet, but The Political Compass gauges your political leanings based on a series of questions they ask you and how strongly you feel about them. Afterward, your score is plotted on a grid and you can compare how you rate to other famous folks throughout history.

They argue the traditional model of describing someone’s political beliefs are too lacking (i.e., “left, right or moderate”). Instead, the use a grid system that measures your political views as plotted against an axis that represents economic dimension and a second axis that deals with the social dimension.

If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it’s fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet.

That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That’s the one that the mere left-right scale doesn’t adequately address. So we’ve added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.

For reference, here are my political leanings after taking the test.

This places me solidly in the “Libertarian Left” category. Who else falls into that category?

The also have a special section detailing the political leanings candidates involved in the 2008 Presidential Election.

If you have a few minutes to kill and are curious to find out more about your political stances, I encourage you to take the test!

Earlier today, I was messing around with some freely available sound files on the Internet and created a Geiger counter ringtone for my iPhone.

Potentially the geekiest thing ever?

You can download it here.