The Onion has yet another amazing scoop:
WASHINGTON—Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text.
If you put a train horn onto a car, you could drive around making people jump--literally. I confess that I couldn't stop laughing at this juvenile prank. It will cost you $375 to buy a cheap one. I wish it would be practical to put a train horn on my bicycle.
According to The Onion, Google has issued this apology:
"We would like to extend our deepest apologies to each and every one of you," announced CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the company's Googleplex headquarters. "Clearly there have been some privacy concerns as of late, and judging by some of the search terms we've seen, along with the tens of thousands of personal e-mail exchanges and Google Chat conversations we've carefully examined, it looks as though it might be a while before we regain your trust."
Bill Maher presents the weather, from the point of view of a fundamentalist:
Here is an interesting observation posted in a medical journal. It concludes:
Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticized the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.
So, do we really know if parachutes are better than a placebo for surviving skydiving? Alt-Med advocates are all over this one.