I always celebrate Easter by eating jelly beans and watching zombie movies: puts me in that “dead rising from the grave” mood.

Night of the Living Dead: The classic!
Dawn of the Dead: The classic or the remake
Bad Taste: See what Peter Jackson did before the Lord of the Rings. Hint: Alien Zombies!
Zombi 2: a great [...]

Here’s some of the weird science and psuedo-science related news for the week:

Science

Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone
Cool on many levels: this should allow for a lot more information on how dinosaurs actually worked, biologically.

Panda Undergoes Artificial Insemination

I wonder how one gets a job as an artificial inseminator for pandas. And are there turkey [...]

Before I got the Mac Mini (truly a wonderous machine, that), my wife and I splurged on iPods: she was the recipent of the older iPod Mini (and, yes, we bought it a little more than a month before the announcement of the new models, as is my lot in life with electronic purchases) and [...]

Rikkert Koppes has some thoughts about class naming in HTML that’s a good read.

While working on www.att.com, Joe D’Andrea and I would spend a lot of time on naming, since Joe’s thought (and it was a good one) was that naming would crystallize the purpose of the construct, basically. So, instead of “columnleft” and “columnright” [...]

One thing that’s really annoys me while browsing is a site that assumes you use the color “white” as your default browser background. I use gray. So all those great images that have been antialiased for a white background look like crap. Also, since I’m not using the expected background color, the text color can [...]

You can’t get good green chile in New Jersey. Let me repeat, you can’t get good green chile in New Jersey. Cthuhlu knows I’ve tried.

When I moved to NJ back in the early 90s, I knew there were some things I would end up having trouble finding. Strangely, one of those things was Dr [...]

I like to dabble in the kitchen when I get the chance. I’m also a big fan of the Food Network, though I feel a little weird when my wife catches me watching Rachael Ray.

Anyhow, here’s a good recipe for an atypical stew.

Great Northern Stew
Ingredients

About 6 ounces of chicken or turkey sausage
3/4 cup carrots cut [...]

I freely admit to being a comic book geek. When I was younger, one of my older brothers and I would make the trek to the local store and buy the latest issue of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, among others.
During the late 1980s, DC Comics published a new series starring the Justice [...]