Electric Josh

Martha's turning 21 today. How is that even possible? Happy birthday, kid.
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If Snopes says that the tryptophan in turkey doesn't make you drowsy then it must be true.
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Steven Wright interview that I had completely missed.
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Here's the story of how one of this space's minor idols, Edward R. Tufte, signed a picture of a pre-war PowerPoint slide. "Nothing like a little 'aimed pressure to achieve your end-state over time,' is there!"
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Matt Taibbi watches election returns, decides that political reporting is becoming indistinguishable from sportscasting, and says, to this space's delight:

Both politics and sports turned into this shit because this format happens to sell the most Cheerios, regardless of what the content is. If you work backward from that premise, and start thinking about what the consequences of that phenomenon might actually be, your head can easily explode.

More Onion goodness:

• Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks
• Republicans Blame Election Losses On Democrats
• Hey, You Got Something To Eat? (by a goat)

"If the Democrats win, the terrorists win."
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Nice summary article explaining just a few of the many reasons next week's elections are unlikely to be free of problems. I particularly like the trick (which I desperately hope isn't actually possible) whereby you can vote multiple times by pushing a yellow button on the back of the voting machine.
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NASA Baffled by Failure of Straw Shuttle. (I know the article is old.)
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