Headline Du Jour: "Stop This Absurd War on the Color Pink"

Check out this deliciously named article in Scientific American.  More on the current pink wars here and here.  As for breaking up with pink ... Who knew?

Notable Blog Post Title Du Jour: Solar Flares

Gawker has this hilarious headline:  "There’s a Decent Chance the Sun Will Fry the Entire Internet and Lay Waste to Civilization."   Well, it's better than zombies, right?

Blog Post Title of the Day: "Thomas Friedman, You Pitiful Fool."

Is Tom Friedman a useful idiot and a pitiful fool?  Absolutely.  Now read this essay about Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, about whom I have posted before here and here.

LOL: A Modernist and a Medievalist Trade Insults

Via Pseudo-Polymath, here is something amusing!

Satire Alert: Iowahawk on the Debt Crisis

The title should come with playful apologies to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Default, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."  Brilliant.  Well, anyway, it's August 2, that much-ballyhooed date of recent days.  Oh, and John Scalzi's Debtpocalypse poll is darn funny too.

Hilarious Headline of the Day: "Gov't Panel to Propose Fracking Rules"

Aw, it's nowhere near as amusing in actual content.  The headline, though, is still a hoot ... probably due to my watching too much "Battlestar Galactica."

Headline of the Day: Big Fish, Little Fish

Here's the headline: "Total German triumph as EU minnows subjugated."  Editorialize much in your headlines, Telegraph?

Geek News: Is the Navy *Trying* to Start the Robot Apocalypse?

Life imitates sci-fi flicks!  Bonus: catchy blog post title, folks at Danger Room.

The Cinema-Mad Sibling Recommends: the Navy's Awesome Electromagnetic Railgun

This time the Cine-Sib recommends not a movie as usual, but a video.  It's not just any video either.  It's the footage of "life imitates sci-fi" technophiliac awesomeness as the Navy fires a railgun that shoots a projectile at Mach 8 -- or 5,500 feet per second.  Things go boom.  And the Cine-Sib and I do love it when things go boom!

UPDATE:  Best blog post title for this: "Say Hello To My Little Friend."  I wish I'd thought to do that!

Life Imitates Monty Python: Government-o-crats In Denial

You can read this, this, or this, or you can simply acknowledge the pithy wit of Dignified Rant, who captures the entire scenario perfectly with a blog post delightfully entitled "'Tis But A Scratch."

Blog Post Title of the Day: "Aw Man, Even Mount Everest Has Better 3G Reception Than We Do"

Outstanding!

Best Blog Tag Yet: Daniel Hannan on EU Government Spending

This is the delightful tag: "We are being robbed blind -- robbed blind I tell you."  Kudos, sir!

Quirky Euro Files: the EU Bureaucracy Online Role-Playing Game

Apparently, this is not a joke.  The link comes via Dignified Rant, who's come up with a fabulous pun of a blog post title, "World of BoreCraft."  I went to the game's official website, and according to the game itself, this is what it's all about:

Citzalia is democracy in action. It is role playing game and social networking forum wrapped in a virtual 3D world that captures the essence of the European Parliament. You may even recognise parts of the building.

Citzalia is a world you inhabit and help create. Using your avatar you can walk around, interact, network, debate the issues of today, propose legislation, vote and learn about how the European Parliament works for citizens. You can be a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a journalist, a student or any role you want to create.

Others will be able to vote on the quality of your proposals and you will be able to vote on theirs. By earning experience points you will be able move up to new expert levels in Citzalia.

Current Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and European officials will be on hand to guide you through the procedures and provide background information.

Zzzzzzz... Oh, I'm sorry!  I think I fell asleep just reading that.  I doubt it could be anything as awesome as actual games that you play for actual fun.  Oh, I can't help it.  Here's something that's actually amusing:

Blog Post Title of the Day: "Germany’s eurozone dilemma: should they stay or should they go?"

Oh please, please, please, let the headline writer of this article be referring to that song by The Clash!

RELATED POSTS: Is the euro a dead currency walking? and the follow-up.

Steyn on Nukes: "Nonproliferation? How Quaint!"

I missed this when it was first published, but it's too good not to share.

Ninme has the best blog title on the topic: "Don't bring a nuke to a machete fight."

Surprise! Not All Dissent Is Raaaaaaacist

Well, it's about time. Plus best title of the day: "Diversi-Tea Training."

Nerd News: Government Tinkering In Schools, or, "No Standardized Test Left Behind"

OK, that gets today's "best blog title" nod.

But seriously, read it all. It saves me from having to rant about the topic myself!

Personal Counter-Terrorism Plus Best Blog Post Title of the Day

"Lars Attacks" by awesome Aussie Tim Blair. Nice sci-fi pun action. Now go read the post itself.

Best Blogger Self-Identification Yet

From the humorous crew at Samizdata (great blog name too) comes this "Who Are We" blurb:

[We] are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.

We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, 'Porcupines', Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.

Bravo!

Maybe I'll be inspired to "improve" my bloggy self-ID! Help me out here, people.

Chinese Cyber-Aggression

We all know about the Great Firewall of China and its government's attempts to censor the Internet (I most recently blogged about it here.)

Now read this about active Chinese cyber-assaults on American and foreign companies, governments, human rights groups, and even individuals. Then read this from Dignified Rant on India's assertion that we all need to increase cyber-security.

By the way, both pieces have great titles -- "Google in the Coal Mine" and "The Smell of DOS in the Morning." Well played, gentlemen.