Lots of links this Monday, now 100%
Borat-free:
* How a cognitive neuroscientist
outsmarted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?*
Rejected America's Funniest Home Videos Submissions, as Logged by Junior Production Assistant Intern Kenneth Polk. At
McSweeney's.AFV956382: Man at office birthday party punches co-worker in arm, but really hard, so co-worker looks like he's about to cry. A mood of quiet and intense discomfort descends upon the room.
AFV377745: During elderly uncle's tribute speech at wedding, dentures eject from his mouth, trailing a glistening string of saliva at just the perfect arc so as to impress upon the viewer the terrors of old age and life's crushing vanity.
AFV444871: Infant's eerily steady, unblinking gaze suggests forbidden knowledge of the ancients.
* liberaldocumentaries.google.com: You can see
The Power of Nightmares at Google Video, and you should. Via
MeFi.
Part 1Part 2Part 3*
The Washington Post reviews
a history of the book of Revelation and, implausibly, an Immanuel-Kant-themed murder mystery called
Critique of Criminal Reason.
*
Wired profiles
the atheist menace.
* And in "This Modern World," Republicans explain
what went wrong.
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Gerry Canavan @ 11:07 AM
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