We are through the looking glass, people. I'm not sure there's anywhere left for irony to go. I'm going to start getting my news from The Onion.

So wait a second here.

A level headed Democrat being received warmly by a level-headed and respectful panel on Fox News?

Are we through the looking glass?

'Time to put off the world and go somewhere
And find my health again in the sea air,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And make my soul before my pate is bare.-

'And get a comfortable wife and house
To rid me of the devil in my shoes,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.'

And though I'd marry with a comely lass,
She need not be too comely - let it pass,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.'

'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.'

'And there I'll grow respected at my ease,
And hear amid the garden's nightly peace.'
*Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.' (Yeats)

*ban

First they make their own playlists, then before you know it they're nibbling on our brains.

Well I'm drawing a line in the sand, people. Either you're with me, or you're with a stinky undead cat.

We are through the looking glass.

Disgusting.

Ladies & gentlemen, we are now through the looking glass.

One Thousand Years
The 100 People Who Made The Millennium
What, no Babe Ruth? How, ask you, could a list of millennium's most important people not include the Sultan of Swat? Plenty of other monarchs failed to make the lineup as well. To get on this team, a person had to change more than just a corner of the world-he or she had to divert the great stream of human history, alter our perceptions perceptibly. A runner edged out Ruth (and Jackie Robinson) by setting a new standard for any owner on two legs. You'll find his name at No. 92 on the following list, which ranks the honorees by importance. Many names will be familiar from the events section, but not all. A few-Watt, Koch, Gutenberg-appear there but not here. Some of history's paramount figures are remembered more for a single accomplishment (such as ushering in the age of print) than for the force of their personalities. Though the actions of the individuals who made the list affected all kinds of people, they are an overwhelmingly male, pale bunch. All but 17 are of European extraction; only ten are women. This reflects not the biases of LIFE's editors and expert advisers but the sociopolitical realities of the past thousand years. For most of that time, as Virginia Woolf noted, women have served largely as "looking-glasses...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Likewise, the millennium's most conspicuous historical movement has been the rise of the West-which means Westerners often borrowing ideas and technology from other peoples, have done a disproportionate amount of global moving and shaking. The next millennium's list of planet-rattlers promises to look strikingly different.
LIFE magazine
http://www.tostepharmd.net/hissoc/top100people.html
I included this in the discussion because I consider it to both vital and relevant. Also, it's from a kick ass book(The 100 Most Important Events & People of the Past 1,000 Years), one of my favorites.
I also feel this is relevant to the discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dichotomy

>> ^rembar:
Food for thought from PZ Myers, with a healthy dose of criticism and contextual information.
Specifically, the interesting point to be made is that Darwin didn't simply predict that the length of the insect tongues would MATCH the orchid tubes, but rather that the orchids would be selected for longer tubes each generation (because the insects, now with slightly shorter tubes, would be forced to press up against the flower to get the nectar and thus would receive pollen all over their bodies that would then be spread by the insects), and the insects would be selected for longer tongues in order to reach across the ever-increasing distance.
It's somewhat of an arms race, in that the orchids benefit by the insects having to struggle to reach the nectar, and the insects benefit by having longer proboscises to not have to struggle to reach the nectar, leading to the development of very long tubes and tongues.


This arms race is termed the Red Queen effect after the race the eponymous character in Through the Looking Glass holds in which "it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." God, I love evolutionary science/scientists (you see what I did there, with the God and the evolution? funny stuff, huh?)

That's some smart database management.

Oh wait, if an 'applauded comment' gets purged from the database, will siftie's star points for that comment end up disappearing?

Does this mean we've stumbled upon Lucky's elegant failsafe which will keep us safe from Siftbot domination of the world - at least for periods of no longer than 4 weeks, as long as it doesn't reprogram itself to close said loophole?

Oh no - that's way too many things that can go wrong!

We're on the other side of the looking glass, people!

Yep, Looking Glass is awesome.

So sad Looking Glass fell apart . These cutscenes were done by Rustmonkey, who are still creating great animations.

What are logical fallacies?
They're whatever you Believe them to be.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
-Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

I never played this one, but Looking Glass was an awesome company. Underworld, Thief, System Shock, Deus Ex... they put out a lot of great games.

Not me, this was one of the first games I bought with my own money. Shame Looking Glass went under...

No one bought this game, damn philistines... You are all to blame for Looking Glass's demise!!!

This game oozed atmosphere.

The one that scared a fraternity brother of mine was "Countdown to Looking Glass" on HBO. He came running from the television room to tell a group of us talking in our courtyard. The videotaped newscast from the tv movie looked like an actual newscast. It premiered October 14, 1984. I haven't spotted a clip yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_to_Looking_Glass