Don't mock the weatherguy -- or else - CNN.com

"People ask: How can the weathermen be wrong so often? Here is the simple answer: They are trying to predict the future! It's a forecast, meaning a prediction about an event yet to happen."

Cool Tools: Zenni Optical

"Zenni offers the same fabulous advantages of decent glasses for super cheap, but they are much faster to deliver, and have a much better selection, and their website is much easier to use and order."

A Trick of the Mind

"Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy."

Dear Musicians: The RIAA Is About To Totally Screw You Over (Again!)

"Once you have a bunch of big name musicians going very public about how the RIAA is screwing them over, it's going to be increasingly difficult for the RIAA to keep up the facade about how it's representing the interests of musicians while it's actively and vocally trying to totally screw them over."

Quit Trying to be So Safe!

"I really think the bottom line problem is that our society today is “too safe.” When we begin to defeat all the things that used to be dangerous, we lose quite a bit of perspective. We start to gauge safety/danger against absolute safety."