Debra

I love this song. This Achordants performance of it was amazing. I hadn't heard it since the concert, but am glad to see that it has made it's way to youtube. I wish they had the whole thing on video since there was a lot of hilarious improve at the end, but they only got the first 3:20 at least. There isn't a lot going on visually from this camera angle, but do try to listen in.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is fundraising. I know we all benefit from it so much, so please join in and make a little donation if possible.

Mr Peppers

What an athlete:

Gay Marriage Debate

Jon Stewart makes several good points in his talk with Mike Huckabee:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Mike Huckabee Pt. 2

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Post #100

A little celebratory dance for post #100. It took a lot longer to get here than I expected.

Most Dominant Center Ever

Shaq is probably the funniest center ever.

Coffee

Christoph Niemann has an interesting post about his relationship with coffee:

Parachute Use

Here is a sarcastic little article that one of my classmates pointed out from the British Medical Journal analyzing the benefits of parachute use if you fall out of a plane. The idea is to make fun of some of the criticism of using observational data to make medical decisions. Here is a little clip from the conclusion of the abstract:

As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised 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.

Kenny George

UNC-Chapel Hill played UNC-Asheville yesterday. The Tar Heels won, frankly by a bit too much. I felt pretty bad for UNC-A. 116-48? That's too brutal. I didn't see the game at all, but maybe we could have allowed them to score a little more? Put in the bench earlier?

And I also learned yesterday that UNC-A's Kenny George, their 7'7'' center (7'9" in shoes), had part of his right foot amputated due to a MRSA infection back in October. He was apparently pretty sick and was going to be in the hospital for another month. That's very sad. I wish him well. Here is a youtube clip of him playing (you can figure out which player he is).



He also had a good write-up in the NY Times last year. No company makes shoes in his size, so in high school Shaq sent him a bunch of his size 22s and they were reshaped into size 25s so George could wear them. Wow.