Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

  • Finishing what you started

    [Brian May will soon submit his thesis for his PhD in Physics](http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2062494.ece). ([Via](http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/07/its_never_too_late_to_return_to_astronom.php))

  • Don’t think too hard about it

    [A lollipop in the shape of Sigmund Freud’s head](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/11/freud_pops_suck_on_s.html).

  • For your next meeting

    [The ultimate Darth Vader costume](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/strangle-with-style/supreme-edition-darth-vader-costume-from-original-molds-really-wheezes-277000.php).

  • Two months until September…

    [The premiere dates for FOX TV series](http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/10/fox-reveals-premiere-dates/).

  • Next halloween

    [Try putting these soaps in your bathroom](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/horror/hands-hands-soap-is-just-wrong-wrong-276647.php).

  • Not my next bike

    [Possibly the most dangerous wheeled device around](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/broken-bones/nimbus-ultimate-wheel-is-simplest-unicycle-ever-276635.php).

  • Pirate-onomics

    [The social organisation of pirates](http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/07/09/070709on_onlineonly_surowiecki).

  • What about the excess?

    [The insurance claim of Optimus Prime](http://mcsweeneys.net/2007/7/9weaver.html).

  • Can’t get enough of this blog?

    Just a quick reminder (given that I can’t think of anything to write tonight…) that there’s more to be seen if you haven’t visited the actual site of the blog in a while. (Thanks to good old RSS, I suspect a few readers of this site don’t ever come to the page). Thanks to [Google…

  • Great plans of our time

    [A man robs a bank disguised as a tree](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/09/man_disguised_as_tre.html).