blake johnson

Sarah Palin:

And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

In other words, I am going to use the closest prepared/canned answer I can think of which vaguely relates to your question. Or maybe it won’t relate at all, but I’ll say “Obama wants to raise taxes” as many times as I can.

UPDATE: It appears that another blogger had the same reaction, but put her response in flow chart form.

Uncertain Principles has some excerpts on the utility of spherical cows.

A good laugh

Wired has an amusing guide to the particles of the Standard Model. I especially like the description of the neutrino.

Michael Nielson provides an interesting discussion of the question “Can you give me a simple, concrete explanation of how quantum computers work?”: quantum computing for everyone