Psycho Killer

Idiosyncratic artist and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne’s journal is ridiculously good. He writes about art, current events, literature, music, physics, video games and apparently attends concerts by Sufjan Stevens, Jenny Lewis, Joanna Newsom and Arcade Fire.

An Inconvenient Thesaurus Entry

Climate change is too benign a term to impel emission reduction. How about climApocalypse or thermageddon?

Speaking of hadrons

While we’re talking about the LHC, Sean at Cosmic Variance discusses some of the discoveries it might yield. After reading that I had to spend a good half hour on Wikipedia reminding myself what elementary particles are bouncing around these days.

The Truth about Obama

The Truth about Barack Obama: “Barack Obama says that Americans cling to GUNS and RELIGION because they are AWESOME.”

Obama Gets Gored

Gore endorses Obama. Wonkette’s analysis: “One thing is clear: You can take anybody and stick them in front of that Obama background and they will look 10 percent leaner, more youthful, and Hopier.”

McCain Golf Gear

Nothing says “I love you, Dad” like a John McCain Golf Pack. Unsurprisingly, Golf Gear shares equal importance with “Strategy” and “General Election” on McCain’s website.

Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand

In what is likely the least coherent endorsement of the season, enigmatic artist Bob Dylan has come out in support of Barack Obama, just a few days shy of Clinton’s concession. You can add this to the three billion other endorsements Obama has already scored.

This Isn’t Helping the Transition to Metric

SensibleUnits.com converts selected SI and customary units (length, area or mass only) into arbitrary artificial units. It’s good to know that I weigh as much as 14 “average domestic cats.”

Things Younger than McCain

Things younger than John McCain: the Golden Gate Bridge, the ballpoint pen, the chocolate chip cookie, Velcro, 91% of Americans.