I agree with your sentiment. This is one of the only sketches I don't mind the unfiltered version so much - usually I prefer bleeps hands-down - but I didn't think to check when I linked the video.

It's true this was already posted, but that's okay - it's fun-enough to watch twice!

If you are at all interested in the midwinter festival "phenomenon," here's a great, short take on some of its history and culture from the Gene Expression blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/12/the-reasons-for-the-seasons/#.UNi33W-u3ng

Ow, my feels.

Why are we not talking about Unamused Donkey Kong? And why is he wearing Diddy Kong's hat? Is it a Cubone / Marowak thing?

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Information science, baby!

In our meager defense, cyanobacteria is a whole phylum, not a single species.

Hell yeah!

My sympathies for poor Alfie White. I felt the same way about my first survivor, a very pleasant young male taxi driver. I was feeling very confident (but not too confident!) and got all the way into Buckingham Palace with him before he was killed (not by the helmeted officer I was facing, but by the second zombie I…

Poopin'!

To produce milk for feeding their mannequin babies once they hatch from mannequin eggs. Duh.

I see where he's coming from, but it still rubs me the wrong way. As a librarian, I have to deal with members of the public occasionally expressing surprise that I had to earn a master's degree to do what I do. Many's the layperson who figures a librarian is just a rather-talented Googler. This argument feels very…

Aw, what a shame. Thank you for saving me the trouble of finding out the hard way!

I'm sure someone will scroll down looking for this.

I think maybe I got a little ahead of myself with the comparison. On the surface they actually seem like opposing phenomena, but I recall that the threat facing the pre-born is that they're never given a chance to develop their own personalities to differentiate themselves from the other memories, and as a result are…

I'm gonna miss the point here for a second, and I hope you'll forgive me, because I had a small epiphany regarding the statement: "Baby vampires never grow up physically or mentally, so there is a little problem where they have temper tantrums and eat entire villages." So, this whole series is more-or-less everyone…

I read your comment and rebuttals in the other article and here, too. What you do, sir, you do well. Very fun to read.

In my experience the conventional thinking is that the (really, really) best way to do it is to get a bunch of interns or independent study students from the closest library school and make them scan on a commercial flat-bed scanner until they're so mind-warped the scanner light initiates some kind of vision-quest. …

To be a huge and awful nerd, extinction is evolution. A change in allele frequencies in which all frequencies become zero is still a change in allele frequencies and is therefore evolution!