1 The placebo effect
2 The horizon problem
3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays
4 Belfast homeopathy results
5 Dark matter
6 Viking’s methane
7 Tetraneutrons
8 The Pioneer anomaly
9 Dark energy
10 The Kuiper cliff
11 The Wow signal
12 Not-so-constant constants
13 Cold fusion

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I wouldn’t say 2005 was one of the best years that I have had, but like any year, there is the “Thrill of Victory” and the “Agony of Defeat”

Reuters has pasted the past year together in Pictures.

Your days of wandering around the video store trying to find something good to watch are over. In their own words: cin-o-matic provides “a lot of information about a lot of movies in an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format.” Basically, you can check out movies that have come out recently, both in the theatres and on DVD. There are colors that instantly give you an average rating of the movie so you can visually scan for movies that are bad before you spend time reading about them. You can filter by all sorts of things, like release date, release type, genre, MPAA rating, and the Cin-O-Matic rating, which is an average of all critic ratings for that particular release. You don’t even have to visit the site all the time to keep up with movies that haven’t come out yet, for you can be reminded via email when they do. To me, that’s the best feature of all.

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I’m not a big fan of TV commercials (Thank you, TIVO!) but this one from Honda is one of the better ones.

Ask Metafilter users respond to this age old question.

1. Take responsibility
2. Pay attention to detail

The thing that’s so surprising is how little attention is paid to these two, how often we run into people who are totally clueless about them.

Every single day, I encounter “that’s not my job” or “it’s their fault.” More subtle but more important are all the little details left untended.

All the advertising in the world can’t undo one lousy clerk.

All businesses are service business and experience is the product…

I’m just blowing off some steam today.

The grand daddy of all days is finally here!

Merry Christmas!

No more christmas music, shopping, planning, wrapping, etc. after today! …….

ahhhhhhhhhhh!

. . . a Festivus for the rest of us!

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