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Obsidian Wings: Star Trek could use a Hard Reboot
by Doctor ScienceI was not looking forward to Star Trek: Into Darkness, though I am a ST: The Original Series fan.By which I mean, because I am a ST:TOS fan.[the following post is *spoiler-free* with regard to ST:ID -- I started working on it weeks befor...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 11:31am -07:00T (1587 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Your cockroaches are going to win Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus
The NYTimes had this cheery science tidbit.
Some populations of cockroaches evolved a simple, highly effective defense against sweet-tasting poison baits: They switched their internal chemistry around so that glucose, a form of su...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 6:31am -07:00T (52 words)
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Obsidian Wings: A tornado safety tip
by Doctor ScienceIt was a truly horrific day for tornados. Moore, OK was hit by a large, devastating tornado that followed a path very close to a very destructive tornado that hit in 1999.Yesterday was also really bad in Oklahoma, especially Shawnee. As ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:31pm -07:00T (349 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Failita, or, Lolita and the problem of the unreliable narrator
by Doctor ScienceBrand, Gerhard. "Lolita." Magill's Survey Of American Literature, Revised Edition (2006): 1-2. Literary Reference Center. Web. 13 May 2013.The novel works on many levels: It is a remorseless satire of middle-class, immature America and a ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:01pm -07:00T (1276 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Hoisted from the comments
hoisted by liberal japonicus
If you enjoyed The Christmas Rats story by our own 'Jill Kearney', you will want to download the rest of the book for you Kindle. The title is The Dog Thief and Other Stories. It’s available as a Kindle download. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:01pm -07:00T (102 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Your recycled instrument Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus
A very interesting story from Mother Jones magazine. The video is below the fold...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46am -07:00T (16 words)
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Obsidian Wings: "You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the" I.R.S.*
by Ugh
In this post the role of Theo will be played by the GOP.
As most of you have no doubt heard, the IRS has admitted targeting right-leaning organizations applying for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code for extra-...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 6:31pm -07:00T (734 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Ha ha Heritage open Friday thread
by liberal japonicus
Don't get me wrong, I like the word heritage. If you haven't noticed, I'm someone who often dwells in the past, and the whole idea of finding out stuff about the past, be it digging up ancient mysteries, contemplating ...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 7:01pm -07:00T (341 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Transfer Pricing (A Tax Post!)
A month ago a commentor asked about the practice known in the tax community (and more broadly) as "transfer pricing" and reigning in some of its effects.
As background, "transfer pricing" generally (very generally) refers to how to account for transact...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 8:31am -07:00T (449 words)
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Obsidian Wings: The split mission and split personality of the MPAA movie ratings
by Doctor ScienceThis Film Is Not Yet Rated does a great job of exposing many of the deep problems with the movie industry's MPAA ratings, but I think it overlooks a big one. It seems to me that the movie ratings board hands out R and NC-17 ratings based ...
Dateline: 2013-05-04 3:31pm -07:00T (1341 words)
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Obsidian Wings: We're Doomed
by Ugh
From the front page of today's Wall Street Journal (copying from the paper version - emphasis supplied):
The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest "bunker buster" bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran's ...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 12:31pm -07:00T (261 words)
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Obsidian Wings: A Golden Week Friday-ish Game of Kings open thread
by liberal japonicus
We are coming up on the Japanese holiday period known as Golden Week. Which, being Japanese, is not really a week. Though I'm not a stickler for words keeping their god-given meaning, of course, I would prefer the translation of...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 6:16pm -07:00T (106 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Fanvids are emotional bouillon cubes
by Doctor ScienceSince my mind has been desperately distracted by the following fanvid, I am going to share it with you!
Direct YouTube link."Starships", by bironic. Music by Nicki Minaj. Lyrics may be NSFW; singing along loudly with them is *definitely*...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 9:46pm -07:00T (617 words)
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Obsidian Wings: And one steps out
by liberal japonicus
Didn't post an open thread, as I thought Ugh and Dr. Science had things covered. But NBA center Jason Collins piece in SI seems to be something that you should read if you haven't and you might want to talk about if you hav...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 12:01pm -07:00T (210 words)
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Obsidian Wings: The West, Texas disaster wasn't an industrial accident
by Doctor ScienceOr at least, not *just* an industrial accident. I see three interlocking sets of problems in the disaster[1]:An industrial or occupational mishap at the West Texas Fertilizer Co. Some combination of mishandling or mis-storage of chemical...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 8:16pm -07:00T (304 words)
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