Day: September 28, 2011

Take it from Snee: Let me count the ways I was right

As a syndicated blogger, I provide a service to the online community. The very fabric of our society is cut and measured based on the qualified opinions of the few of us that signed up for WordPress, cross-stitched with captioned pictures of boobs.

This is a responsibility I do not take lightly. So, when it turns out that we (you, the readers, and me, the only part of “we” that actually matters) are winning the good fight, I want to make sure you know it. So, whenever you think the world can’t be changed, that the little guy will always lose out to the bigger guy with all the money, sometimes … sometimes … I’m proven right. Continue reading Take it from Snee: Let me count the ways I was right

We smell a cyber rat

No, we’re not talking about the return of the Cybermen on the most recent episode of Doctor Who. But, according to this story, that’s not far off.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel have restored brain function in test rats’ disabled cerebellums (they started on the right track) with a synthetic one (and then leapt right off onto the wrong one). Sure, they only taught the rat to blink to a sound tone, but the goal is to eventually “replicate complex areas of the brain,” which could restore full function to the disabled or even improve undamaged brains.

The only silver lining is that there will now be some competition with the cockroaches to succeed the human race should we lose this war.

It’s the pure, unmixed taste of vanilla

“There’s a whole lotta honkies in this ice cream shop.”

But that’s just coincidental. You see, Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches, a locally owned ice cream shop in Ocala, Florida, recently unveiled a new mascot. Of course, as with all business involving mascots, controversy quickly ensued. When people drove by the parlor, they saw the dancing mascot holding a sign, and as such, they immediately thought that the business going on was racist.

As in, the mascot was a KKK member.

Except the owner of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches is Lisa Diaz, who’s from Puerto Rico. Sometimes a vanilla ice cream cone is just a vanilla ice cream cone.

Admire the spirit, but no one wants to see that

Utah is not exactly known for its progressive attitude, and its laws reflect that. Even though most Utahans are not Mormon, their state laws don’t reflect that. Well, the more liberal denizens of Utah decided to gather together and make a sincere, professional plea to their state legislators.

Just kidding! They got together and partied in their underwear in protest. An estimated, uh, “thousands” gathered together in their skivvies for the “Undie Run” in Salt Lake City.

They should have an event like that in Washington, D.C., there would probably be quite a few congressmen participating.