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1) I think the Lamarckian findings are of the type “Take the spotlight and run”.
2) Joanne’s “what” managed to jar even on my nerves, and I wasn’t in the whereabouts of the cone!
3) Seriously, RocketBoom, you ought to balance your obvious partisanship to cats with a pro-dog positive action.
Enjoyable video.
Didn’t you talk about the rock-hording monkey already?
Where is Ellie? I saw her briefly in the know your meme (with Boxxy or whatever the hell she called herself) and was hoping she would be more involved. But ALAS, nothing…. again.
@ Newt: there was a special “Ellie only” episode on (SURPRISE!!) Saturday! Go check it out.
Thanks for the heads up !!
Saturday episodes !!
I don’t know if that is a blessing (more RB) or a curse (spending more time online).
what [woh' et] –pronoun 1. What?
OK, somebody mentioned “balanced journalism?”
“Balanced journalism” was a political falsehood created when the right was attacking NPR for being, as they called it, “Radio Managua.” NPR eventually conceded in their fist attempt to save themselves from a republican administration.
“Balanced reporting” became the false ideal of the day.
It is really absurd to ask someone to represent the opposing point of view. If you think about it, were they to do that well, it would not be their point of view in the first place. The most objective reporter still has a point view. To expect otherwise is a false ideal.
One gets balanced reporting by reading the best stories from all points of view.
That said I wouldn’t mind a dog or to myself.
Whatever. It’s high time to have one dog or two in, and you know it. The way you handle the sources is what fair reporting is all about. Give dogs a chance.
While covering all sides of a story is necessary for the ideal of objective journalism, it is just that: idealistic.
The best news agencies in the world still have a tendency to color a story one way or another, even if that only means the questions asked are influenced by the viewpoint of the commentator or their writers.
To be frank, Rocketboom has never made any claims about being objective in the past, quite the contrary. And no one at Rocketboom (save for some the field correspondents) see themselves as journalists, but rather, curators of internet culture and news. In that way, it’s similar to op-ed correspondents like Rachel Maddow, Kieth Olberman, and in some sense even Bill O’Reilly. The main difference there is that Fox News calls themselves News, whereas Rocketboom is really more like The Daily Show. Yes, there are biases, and they are openly admitted. But the facts are checked, sources cited, and the context with which everything is stated is thoroughly considered prior to shooting.
This is how most journalists write. Sometimes they even use a mirror. So don’t b-live evything yuo raed.
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it
Of course the comment here above (Chris Menning’s) is to be taken as a general statement, right?, not as a specific rebutting of my pro-dog lobbying, correct? just following suit along the earlier joke, not so?
I’d sense somewhat a disproportion, otherwise.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO PRAIRIE STATE!!!!!!
¡LUCHA! ¡LUCHA CONTRE LOS IDIOTAS!!!
¡PLUTO ES UN PLANETA! ¡PLUTO ES UN PLANETA!
Ok then.
She’s hot
ANOTHER GOOD SHOW ***** 5 STARS!
“What?” LOL
Rol…cats… o_O
A little bit late for pi day, but we forgive you for it. Wouldn’t have you working on a Saturday now, would we?
For those of us not familiar with the song this episode goes out on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanjZw5hPvE
I suppose pictures of cones are cool… …Buuut I prefer using them as megaphones instead. =D
nice ending :D
Kate Bush - Pi
Love it.
lol the Ԉ song was kool lol
YES!!! plutos back!
Great vid, wish there were links in the side though.
Right on.
I LOVE THE ENDING! that is how i remember pi.. i just remember that!
Great vid. Love Joanne’s accent.
I was looking at that pi thing 54 seconds after the Original poster posted it lol!
Cool cones.
ytmnd ftw
i donn’t usualy coment about something other than the videos but i seriously need to know… what does ftw mean. i know omg, wtf, stfu, and gtfo but not ftw. someone plz reply me with wat it means
“For the win”
YOU HAVE A PET IGUANA?!?!? OMG!! SO DO I!!
(i don’t really… i’ll stop shouting now.)
News flash: When ya’ C a ’study’ that promotes anti-white policy (such as nurture-over-nature ‘Lamarkian’ nonsense), U can B certain it’s just more nonsense 2 promote anti-white propaganda. I worked once 4 a himey in college pulling the same crap - estrogen studies (pretending estrogen makes U smarter, meanwhile men run the world ‘cuz they’re smarter - duh!) - U know, always going 4 that ‘inversion’ 2 weaken the host nation (so they can try & take over & feed off us easier). It’s not ’science’
Oh BTW I just remembered this yid was pretty funny with his ‘Jewish cowboy’ routine. This was at the University Of Colorado, & he’d dress kinda’ cowboy & listen 2 ‘metropolitan’ country stuff like Lyle Lovett, etc. - U know, 2 help him attract the aryan shiksa clowns =)) Yes, most jewz wanna’ BE aryan (must B tormentful - wanting 2 B somethin’ U hate so much HAHA). They even bleach their hair lots (out here in Ca. where I M now N E way.) Ban bleach! B who U R I say =B^D
Lamarquian studies are valid??!! better tell THAT one to my science teacher…lol
What is the name of that PI song you played at the end!?
It sounded awesome!
Who is the artist also?
I’m not the only one that celebrates pi day! Yay!
I love the soundtracks for your videos Rocketboom!
“Pi” by Hard ‘n Phirm
is it just me or does she look a bit like amanda holden…
It’d be pretty shweet to have a pet Iguana though … [B?
What if like… Pluto is in-fact the ONLY planet in our Solar System and the rest are all moons! YEAH!
I’m completely crazy, no?
Dogs anyone? B-man? Kam?
All I got is a dead cat. She was 21 lbs and 23 years old and lived in an “art house” theater (converted from a funeral home some decades ago) that is being kept alive by a foundation since the owner died in 2007.
http://www.bijou-cinemas.com/
very cool video as always, loved the zipper tape
Sweet ep.
“Wot?!” - instant classic.
So I see most of the tubers aren’t up yet. Or maybe this was above their itty bitty heads.
Nice stuff above about objectivity in journalism, which is total bullshit. No one can be objective. Not even a mirror is objective. There is always stuff you are not looking at.
The best journalists, dare I say real journalists, strive to be fair. But they are as hard on their friends as they are on their enemies, at least sometimes.
I remember an old man who sat on a board I covered, who summoned me to his hospital bed one afternoon because, he said, he had a huge story for me. He was running for re-election at the time. When I got to his bed, it was clear he was loopy from lack of oxygen. He could barely speak. He had muttered some half-baked idea about a story to his wife who called me to humor him, and in hopes of snapping him put of his stupor maybe.
He literally could not put two words together and I made the first excuse I could and left.
I never wrote about what happened. He called me the next day and apologized and admitted he had been incoherent, and said he was much better now. Indeed, he was his old self, a capable administrator who had the pertinent facts down.
The guy was running against him was an utter slimewad, a sharp operator who thought the board job would make him rich. He claimed to be employed doing credit repair, but had no client list to speak of. I knew the slimewad would lose the election.
Unless, perhaps, I wrote a story saying the old man was incoherent. Was it relevant? I decided it was not. Had I decided so, I would have brought it to my editors in a heartbeat. As it was, I never mentioned it. The old man served his full term OK, though they had to call him from his bed onenight to come break a tie vote.
I suppose I would have been in trouble if another reporter had outed me, or scooped me. But in truth there were no other reporters who gave a damn. (That, by the way, is the going trend. See Seattle PI Faces of Death at nytimes.com. Those days will soon be over, I fear.)
Was I objective? Hell no. But I think I was fair. Yes?
i celebrated pi day. All my guests had to memorize pi to the 25th digit in order to get some, guess what, pie. We also had a pie contest. Not to judge the best pie, but to find out which pi rendered the most accurate pi value by dividing its circumference by its radius squared. I’m really not a nerd, really.
LOL @ Joanne on the park bench cut. :)
FUCK, I missed pi day…
~I didn’t even know it was a day until today… I would have baked a pie…~
This is so random, but what is the background song that plays alongside the photos of the “zipper” tape thing?
mind blogging planet new casts…keep it up..very innovative
Just went to check out RB Facebook and discovered the posters are a hell of lot more interesting than the crap that spewed here. I think I found a new hangout.
Was it pi day? I thought I had eaten bad shrimp the day before, I was in bed feeling sick, spinning circles and seing all these numbers in my head. It all makes sense now…
N1kdanbro: all the rest are the moons of pluto? kids are going to get childhood trauma trying to draw the orbit of, say earth, going around pluto. that’s gonna be some crazy squiggly lines.
we give things names so we don’t get a huge headache trying to figure them out. if we call pluto a planet, we’ll kind of have to explain what it’s doing so close to the orbit of the kuiper belt. by saying it’s a member of kuiper we might save quite a bit of headache for future generations.
its pi day?! there’s pi day?! wow!
2:26 rofl <.<
2:26 Love the ending.. Makes math more interesting..
JoANNa you make my ROCKET GO BOOM!
milf, miLF, MILF, MILF!!!
I celebrated pi day with candy and cake.
It was pi day and I missed it?
Who the what, where?
Can we have some info on the song at the end?
should i upload the song at the end onto rapidshare?
Can we get the link to the Pi song? XD.
3/14 March 14th
Yes please!
Be honest
If u really like someone right now,
or miss them right at this moment,
or can’t get them out of your head,
Then copy and paste this on 10 vids within 5 minutes,
And whoever you are missing,
Will surprise you tomorow
i love joann
3.14здец как интересно
She definitely is one of a kind. .this reporter…
I wish I could speak that fast…
Yup she is. Its the kind of speed rarer than a boxer’s incredible handspeed
love the Pi song lol
a pi-pie