As a Weekend Tangent, here’s Saturday Night Live poking fun at American kids smitten by J-popular culture. i discovered it very funny, and from what I’ve heard it’s scarily accurate (although i would not know — been out of the united states for too long). What do you believe?

UPDATE: Just found a Russian server playing it outside of the U.S. without proxies. Try here:

http://rutube.ru/tracks/4914046.html?v=f07fb33ba9c6603f51cef4ffd7c1e09d

Sunday the 18th was the last day of the NY Comic Con.  I managed to squeeze in two panels before hightailing it home that afternoon.  My first port-of-call was the Mad magazine panel, which featured editor John Ficarra and veteran…

BioBlitz 2011 is on! Tune on this Friday and Saturday for the once a year celebration of biodiversity in Saguaro National Park, Tuscon, Arizona! Visit the development virtually during the free electronic field trip (1pm and 4pm EST Friday, October 21)….

i’m reliably informed by friends in Luk Oil that their Odessa refinery, which processes 3.6 million tonnes of crude a year,  is up on the market. Will it sell?  I would imagine it’ll be snapped up rather quickly to be honest. Why?  Because last week, with none pomp or ceremony within the public eye, [...]