There was a great poll on the Wii USA site:

I’m not sure that I want it as bad as Cartman but as soon as exams are over I might make a trip to EB to pick one up.

Police officers are more willing to use them in unneeded situations. I bet you Queen’s is really happy that the Tazering of students never got much traction: UCLA

Check out this site.

It’s scary when you start entering random numbers. Try $850—the median annual income. Even a dirt poor grad student is in the top 10% of the world as far as annual income.

From the mother of all knowledge, one of my biggest obessions, and the cause of most of my procrastination:

Moderate hookworm infections have been demonstrated to have beneficial effects on their hosts. Research at the University of Nottingham conducted in Ethiopia has demonstrated that people with hookworm infections are half as likely to experience asthma^[1] or hay fever.^[2]

The theory is that our immune systems evolved under constant assault from a variety of parasites, most of which have to modulate our immune response to succeed. That is, they have to down regulate the response that would otherwise attack them. Evolving with a down-regulated immune system means that in the absence of those down-regulating parasites our immune systems often attack our own tissues, leading to asthma, hay fever, IBD, colitis, Crohn’s and perhaps other autoimmune diseases. Hence the increase in autoimmune diseases in the relatively clean and sterile industrialized world.

I saw a poster on the subway a few days ago. Bret Hart is playing the genie in Aladdin. This is the best picture of a promotion I’ve found:

I haven’t posted one of these in a looooooooong time so what the hell: