Breaking Dawn Part 2 Won Seven (7) Awards Last Night

Of course, the awards Breaking Dawn" Part 2 won were Razzies. Via Miss Celania.

"Our Story in 2 Minutes"

The "our" in "Our Story" is mostly the US (well, that's the intended audience), but whatever; this is still great:

Jerry Seinfeld Accepting the Award at the Show

I thought Jerry Seinfeld's speech was particularly moving:

Via MetaFilter.

Academy Award Preview: Best Actress Nominee Ann Coulter

The best actress category is controversial this year since Ann Coulter's sexual identity is unknown, but nonetheless her attempt to pretend she's not an asshole was touching if ultimately a failure. Being born without a conscience has undoubtedly been quite a handicap, and I expect her to win the sympathy vote here.

Now I know that Michele Bachman made a strong push this year with her crazy comic stylings, but who can forget Sarah Palin's portrayal as a tragically insane woman in 2008 that brought her accolades from all over? The sympathy vote always wins.

Academy Awards Preview: Best Horror Film

Once again, this is another year where the none of the nominees were released this year. Anyway, it's a tight race, but the likely winner is Mary Poppins:

Also nominated:
        Mrs. Doubtfire

        Uncle Buck

        Sleepless in Seattle

Academy Awards Preview: Best Foreign Language Film Nominee Shadow Pico

I often don't understand foreign language films because they aren't filmed in English, but I thought Shadow Pico was a really moving look into the mental health system:

Academy Awards Preview: Best Picture Likely Winner, The Avengers

Also nominated is Prometheus which has the advantage that none of it makes any sense whatsoever:

Academy Awards Preview: Best Romantic Comedy (A New Category this Year)

Likely winner: The Shining:

Also nominated:
        The Shawshank Redemption

One of the things I love about romantic-comedies -- or "rom-coms" as we in the in-crowd call them -- is how the title always gives let's you know they're upbeat. Like "The Shining" or "The Shawshank Redemption." You just know those are going to be happy movies.

Japanese Bridges

Apropos of nothing particular, pulled from various internet locations at unknown times (and so, sorry, references long lost) -- clicking on the image or "read more" brings up the full set:

Academy Awards Preview: Best Actor -- Lincoln

I thought Lincoln did a really good job and is pretty much a lock for best actor:

Also, this woman does a really good job impersonating Anne Hathaway and plainly will win best supporting actor:

(I actually thought Anne Hathaway did an excellent job.)

Academy Awards Preview: Best Screenplay Nominee Twilight

With the Academy Awards upcoming in a week, as a public service we at Galileo Feynman have decided to preview some of the key movies up for awards. Today we begin with the cinema classic Twilight.

Also nominated: The Hunger Games:

A Happy Elephant

More Exciting Oscars Star Coverage

More exciting Oscars coverage leading up to The Big Day!

Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 2 from Zach Galifianakis

Goats Yelling Like Humans. That is All. (And It's Enough.)

I Just Don't Understand

How is this guy not is the hospital?

He hits it here (via Boing Boing):

Interviews with the Oscar Contenders

Our award winning coverage of the Oscars begins today with these interviews of the stars who will get awards:

Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 1 from Zach Galifianakis

The Death of Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin, one of the most celebrated legal theorists in the world and an outspoken liberal thinker, died today of complications from leukemia. Born in the U.S. he was a phenomenal student of the law and clerked for famous judge Learned Hand before teaching at Oxford, University College, London, and New York University, among other schools. Many essays by him for The New York Review of Books, for whom he frequently wrote, are available online.

I refer to Dworkin as a "liberal" because many of the ideas he embraced square with both traditional notions of liberalism and what is typically thought of liberal today. The essays you can read a The New York Review of Books, as well as Dworkin's famous books such as Taking Rights Seriously, Law's Empire, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Justice for Hedgehogs. You don't have to be a lawyer, by the way, to read and understand these books.

Some of what I will be addressing in the legal parts of The "Program" (see the tab at the top right below this blog's title) is a critique of Dworkin's work -- pro and con -- for he was deeply influential on me as he should be on anybody with an interest in legal systems. But for now, this video as a tribute (note -- it's more than an hour long but to get to the Dworkin part skip to 10:30 after the start -- via MetaFilter):

A Suitcase for Deckard's PKD Gun

In this video Adam Savage, who is a prop maker and star of the show Mythbusters, makes a case for the gun -- a "PKD 2018 Plager Katsumate Series-D" -- used by the "blade runner," Rick Deckard, in the movie Blade Runner. It's a really nice "build" full of excellent techniques and witty use of materials. (Which is to say, personally I'm more interested in how he constructs it than what it is or is for.)

I Thought This Was Lovely

A kiss should symbolize a harmonic unity in the meeting pair, heart and soul intertwined, and all feelings' scope encompassed.

Via Kottke and found at The Bygone Bureau, a guide to kissing written up and illustrated by Hallie Bateman from journal entries made by her mother "in 1976 when she was seventeen years-old and sitting on a train in europe somewhere."

With drawings as lovely as the words, owing a little to Lynda Berry and James Thurber, and more than a little to a romantic imagination.

Obligatory Valentines Day Message

Is the Asteroid About to Miss Earth an Effect of Global Warming?

Asteroid 2012 DA14 -- which is pretty big -- will be zipping within 17,000 miles of Earth on Friday -- it could even hit some satellites, though the chances of that are slim. A CNN reporter wants to know, though, if it's caused by global warming.  I'm just agog, I tells ya. Agog.

"This one's just going up and above planet Earth." Ok, I officially feel hopeless about all humanity. 

Bill Nye, meanwhile, wants us to understand that it only missed us by 15 minutes. Well, better luck next time, asteroid.

Oh, and Space.com wants us to understand that "space miners" value it at $195 billion. "Space miners"? What is that? Is that like Mole People? There are no "space miners" except in science fiction.  Jezusss.

I'm Putting My Hat in the Ring for Pope

I've given this a lot of thought, and I think I would be a good Pope.

The fact that I am an atheist may be a liability. Okay.

Well, let's not just be a big quitter. This is just a middling PR problem.  You know a lot of other popes have overcome it, and I don't see why I can't, too. What we need here is a good P.R. handler, that's all. That and a good hatchet man. I've heard all the other candidates for pope are communists and Muslims. Like Obama!

Useful Snow Information

The northeastern United States is deeply covered in snow right now, and as a public service and because they're big babies and think people only think about them and their precious snow, I offer the following helpful information:

"Wings" and the Death of Paul Sampleton, Jr.

Yesterday two teens and an adult were arrested for the murder of a 14 year old -- he was killed to steal his shoes.  He apparently had a bunch of high end shoes and just gotten home from school for holiday break when was shot and then strapped to a chair and left to die.

The whole thing as heartbreaking on so many levels, this kind of thing happens so often, much too often. Rather than pontificate or get lost in the heartbreak, just this:

The Minute Physics List of Great Science Sites

Henry Reich who created and produces the great YouTube channel Minute Physics (which I ought to link to more, really), has produced a list of his favorite science sites. It's actually really good (why should I be surprised?):

Here's his list:

• Big Red Button - http://inception.davepedu.com
• xkcd - http://xkcd.com/1131/
• xkcd what if? - http://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?...
• Empirical Zeal - http://www.empiricalzeal.com/
• Sean Carroll - http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/b...
• Terry Tao - http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/12...
• It's Okay To Be Smart - http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/...
• I ¶#@*ing Love Science -https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLove...
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day -http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
• Radiolab - http://www.radiolab.org/2012/dec/17/s...
• HyperPhysics - http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...
• The Scale of the Universe - http://htwins.net/scale2/
• The Character of Physical Law -http://research.microsoft.com/apps/to...
• Fake Science - http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/12...

              Youtube Channels he lists:

• Veritasium - http://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
• Sixty Symbols - http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
• Periodic Videos - http://www.periodicvideos.com/
• Crash Course - http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
• The Brain Scoop - http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop
• Smarter Every Day - http://www.youtube.com/destinws2
• Vi Hart - http://www.youtube.com/vihart
• George Hart - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTl0...
• Numberphile - http://www.numberphile.com/
• Vsauce - http://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce
• TED-Ed - http://www.youtube.com/teded
• MinuteEarth - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

The Incredible Drawings of Cath Riley

Cath Riley is an incredible U.K. based artist working in pencil. There's a delicacy to all her work, but I am particularly drawn -- um, no pun intended -- to her drawings of "flesh" since these close-up images are particularly sensitive and sensual. (They are reminiscent, to me, of the famous passage in Bernini's The Rape of Prosepina where Pluto is grabbing Prosepina's thigh -- that's a pretty incredible thing of which to be reminiscent.) Some images (mostly below the break) -- I note, by the way, that a number of these beautiful images are for sale:

Calvin & Hobbes in a Photographic World

Nite4awk, a user on Imgur has made some nice wallpapers using images of Calvin and Hobbes mixed into photographs. That is all. Via MetaFilter.

Infrasounds and Homing Pigeons

Diagram A shows all releases and random directions pigeons flew; diagrams B,
C, D, and E show different release dates; dashed lines are the correct direction

While we're talking about pigeons, yesterday The Atlantic had an interesting piece about the disappearance of homing pigeons -- who are excellent navigators -- when released from one specific location. One day, though, they flew home with no problem.

After years of not being able to answer the question, the answer has been recently published in The Journal of Experimental Biology: it's infrasounds. Much as human perception is limited to a narrow range of light waves, our hearing is limited to a narrow range of sound. While humans can hear sounds to  ~ 20 hertz, pigeons can hear sounds as low as .05 hertz.

The ocean (or sounds resulting from the ocean) apparently is the dominant source of sounds at that low level even hundreds of miles from the sea. Topography, wind speed and direction, and temperature, however, affect sounds, allowing pigeons to navigate. They also, however, leave dead zones (and surely also places where sound is greatly amplified). The location where the pigeons got lost was normally a dead zone. The one day they didn't get lost was one day where likely high level and not readily apparent atmospheric conditions filled it with sound and allowed the pigeons to find their way.

Pigeon navigation, then, requires not only the ability to hear these sounds but the ability to make a mental map (or remember the sounds they've heard) on one hearing to guide their way back. It's not a common human skill, even for for visual cues.

A Little Joy

To me this pretty much sums it up:

DNA Variations and the Diversity of Pigeons

The New York Times has an interesting science article on genome sequencing of pigeon DNA, which is being used to study how a few genetic variations can lead to great diversity of species (there are over 130 species of pigeons and doves, which are a form of pigeon). The article is a font of interesting factoids, such as the practice of Charles Darwin and Thomas Jefferson each in raising pigeons; the use by those as diverse as the ancient Greeks to Genghis Khan of pigeons as messengers, the fact that Akbar the Great always traveled with a colony of 10,000 pigeons. The NYT's article arises from an article in Science, which traced the genetic variations of pigeon DNA (and confirms, among other things, that the progenitor is Rock Pigeons, as Darwin thought).

Interesting as all of that is, what I liked most about the article was its photo spread on pigeon variations, which was rally beautiful. It's worth clicking through to. (A few examples below.)

Something is Wrong on the Internetz

"And is this NOT your list of reference sources?"

A Random Conspiracy Generator

Although this is not guaranteed to be as exciting as the real thing ("real" in relation to conspiracy theories may not be the best word choice), modern technology has now advanced to the point where computers can generate our fake conspiracies for us. I loooove technology!

Click here (if not to your liking, just click refresh).

A Beautiful Trombone Solo

This is lovely. Via Stellar.

Silent Circle -- Easily Encrypted Communications

Silent Circle is an encryption company that sells easy to use (so they say) text, email, phone, and video encryption applications for cell phones and computers. Using Pretty Good Privacy and other state of the art encryption methodologies -- indeed, it was created by the inventors of some of those technologies -- its primary benefit (they say) is that it makes them easy to use so it allows widespread communications free of snooping. That, if true, would be revolutionary (they say).

Silent Circle asserts that it does not keep the keys so it cannot encrypt the messages its service encrypts and transmits. It also says it makes it products without "backdoors," which are ways in for the company that would ordinarily be hidden to users. Believing that, of course, requires a level of trust (which may be warranted -- I have no idea).

Is widespread use of completely encrytpable communication a "good thing"? I don't know -- I can see good arguments on both sides. I distrust anyone who insists that it is absolutely one way or the other. Via Tim!

"The Eagleman Stag" by Mikey Please

This is an extremely well conceived and well executed animated video. Since I am posting a lot of videos lately, I thought I'd toss this one out there.

MetaFilter -- which was the source of this for me -- has a nice short write up with a link to a really good making of video as well as links to many other videos by Mikey Please.

In general, MiFi has been white hot lately with awesome stuff.

Grant Snider is a Font of Wisdom

Today's "Incidental Comics" by Grant Snyder tells of typography:

In libraries typography is always the elephant in the room. Via Tim!

Scientists are Using Amusement Park Rides to Increase Intelligence

Scientists at the Institute for Centrifugal Research (here's its Facebook page) have developed a series of fantastic aerodynamic kinetic experiments to defeat some of the mental processing boundaries people face. This is the kind of amazing thing you come upon today -- it's worth watching. Via Colossal.

Today's "Horror" Story

Today's horror story is actually an ancient horror story ... for insects. Cordyceps, a fungi that eats the brains and bodies of insects, is claimed to have medicinal value (particularly in traditional Chinese medicine), but there are no clinical studies demonstrating health benefits in humans. Anyway, here's a "nice" video from the BBC's Planet Earth series, making cordyceps reminiscent of the "earwigs" from the Night Gallery episode The Caterpillar (which, in all its creepiness, can be seen on YouTube -- 1, 2, 3, 4 -- about 40 minutes total). And, of course, humans are prone to worms in our brains (not a link to Rush Limbaugh). Yuk.

Video seen on Cynical C.

Li Hongbo: "Pure White Paper"

"This" is incredible, "this" being paper sculptures by Li Hongbo (李洪波). It's an incredibly great idea, incredibly well executed, and one ripe for future development. Surprising and sweet.

"My Recurring Dream," a Beautifully Shot Music Video

My Recurring Dream from André Chocron // Frokost Film on Vimeo.

For Want of a Horse (and perhaps a Conscience) Richard III Lay Lost

The bones of Richard III have been positively identified as those found under a parking lot in Leicester 20 miles from Bosworth Field, where he died. His death effectively ended the War of Roses. This is William Hutton's depiction of the treatment of his body eftsoons the battle (from the Richard III Society):

The body of King Richard being found among the slain, covered with wounds, dust, and blood, after suffering many shameful indignities, was hung over a horse, like a calf, behind a pursuivant at arms, named Blanch Sanglier, or White-boar, the name of his office, he wearing a silver boar upon his coat, the cognizance of Richard, and was carried to Leicester in triumph, that afternoon. The corpse was perfectly naked, the feet hung on one side, the hands on the other, and the head lately adorned with a crown, dangling like a thrum-mop. No King ever made so degraded a spectacle; humanity and decency ought not to have suffered it. Carte says they tied a rope about his neck, which is very probable, and perhaps about his feet, or he could not well have been fastened to the horse. This was meant as a disgrace to Richard, but it reflected more upon Henry, or his followers; for to insult weakness is highly blamable, but more to insult the dead.

The corpse was exposed two days to public view, in the town hall; this was Henry's policy, to prevent a future impostor, and his pride to shew himself a conqueror, and then interred without ceremony, in the Gray-friers' church. Here Richard rested about fifty years, with a scrubby alabaster monument erected over him by Henry. At the destruction of religious houses, his remains were turned out of their little tenement by the town's people, and lost, and his coffin of stone, was converted into a watering trough at the White-Horse, in Gallow-tree-gate. Thus all the grandeur for which Richard exerted uncommon talents, ended in a stile below a beggar.

Perhaps, though, we should take Shakespeare's word of Richard III's current office?

Conscience is but a word that cowards   use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!
March on, join bravely, let us to it pell-mell,
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.

(Richard III to the Duke of Norfolk in Act V, Scene III of Shakespeare's Richard III.) Shakespeare wrote for the victors -- the Red Rosed Red Rosed Tudor, Queen Elizabeth -- and victors almost always assert their enemies took to hell. We should not take the victor's word for it.

Yet referring to Shakespeare does ease my conscience about using "eftsoons."

It's Monday, It's Raining Somewhere, and, well, It's 30 Years Since the Death of Karen Carpenter

In Office Full Genomic Analysis

I posted about two weeks ago about an interview at Spiegel Online with Harvard biologist George Church who asserts that DNA not only soon can but will be used to create synthetic Neanderthals and other animals, as well as changing individual's genomes, and even will be used to design machines. (A follow-up post a few days later reported on two very promising studies in the use of DNA, particularly as a memory device for computation.)

Dr. Church, it turns out, has been very busy.

As reported in The New York Times, Knome, a company he co-founded and for which he is the chief scientific adviser  has just released a full genome sequencer that is the size of a file cabinet and costs about $125 K. It used to cost $250 K to sequence the full genome of one individual. In short, this is a pretty incredible development.

The science of DNA engineering is moving ahead extraordinarily fast -- must faster than our culture.

The Surreal Art of Mu Pan

Mu Pan is an artist living now in Brooklyn and born in Taiwan who blends aspects of Chinese and Japanese screen art with bizarre reinterpretations of historical events, kitsch from movies and manga, and an aesthetic sensibility that seems borrowed directly from Hieronymus Bosch. Very strange and often (not always) compelling. A few examples (diptych/triptych in originals):

Mu described himself as angry. That seems apt. Via Io9.

Synthetic Crystals Acting (Sort of ) Like Living Organisms

This video (which I originally saw at Neatorama) shows particles of hematite (Fe2O3) which, at the nanoscale, has magnetic properties that are less pronounced in larger sample (actually raising the temperature changes the magnetic properties of hematite). In the video the particles are partially covered with a polymer and are in a bath of hydrogen peroxide; when the light is "on" the particles conduct electricity and react with the hydrogen peroxide but are easily disturbed and move around. When the light is "off" they stop reacting, jiggling with what appears to be Brownian motion.

The video with the light "on" is reminiscent of Conway's famous "game of life" simulation.

"Death Valley Dreamlapse"

"Death Valley Dreamlapse" from Sunchaser Pictures on Vimeo.

This follow-up the beautiful video to "Sunchaser Star Trails" was filmed at Eureka Dunes in Death Valley National Park during the Geminid Meteor Shower Peak. It was primarily shot at 25 second interval exposures without special effects. A "UFO" appears at (1:30-1:35) and makes three broad circular sweeps over the desert and according to the filmmaker was too slow to be a helicopter (while it appears fast, due to the timelapse the period it's there is really about 50 minutes). Via Scientific American -- really!

"Speak Memory" -- Oliver Sacks on the Validity and Shortcomings of Human Memory in The New York Review of Books

In 2001 Oliver Sacks, the great neurologist and author, published a book of memoirs named Uncle Tungston: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood. Shortly after its publication he learned from speaking with his brother Michael that he was not present one of the vivid incidents he "recalled" but that it came fro a letter another wrote. With that Sacks sends us on a short and fascinating odyssey on memories that are found from others, on “cryptomnesia.”

We are reminded (if you will) of the famous incident where Ronald Reagan described as historical fact a movie scene he remembered; George Harrison's likely unintentional copyright infringement in My Sweet Lord of Ronnie Mack's He's So Fine; Helen Keller's alleged (and plainly unintentional) plagiarism of a children's author when Keller was 11 (and Mark Twain's very kind letter to Keller about it, describing inadvertently plagiarizing Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.); of charges of plagiarism that were leveled against Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose memory was so prodigious he probably could not have helped but had cryptomnesia; and of Sack's being inadvertently plagiarized himself. Throughout there is a recurrent and compelling narrative that cryptomnesia is very common for all of us. This may present issues when we wonder what is real (it doesn't mean reality doesn't exist or that different memories are equally true, of course), and it presents fascinating questions as to how cryptomnesia occurs and how it can be measured. Sacks, in fact, while writing an article stronger on story than underlying science, cites to several writings worth further review.

Equally significant -- indeed, most significant from my perspective as a lawyer -- is how how unreliable witness memories are. We rely, by necessity it seems in many cases, on what people describe from the stand, and what they say is often very in accurate. Of course, sometimes witnesses lie straight-out (and are rarely prosecuted for this, by the way). But very often a witness convinces himself that an invented story is true. How can that happen? We suspect it is because they feel a need for some story; that the story they offer has some emotional purpose for them; or that perhaps it has been suggested. What we lack are realistic ways to examine their truthfulness. Short of that, witness testimony is accepted too readily, and it leads to real and substantial harm for many people.

I don't think we can abandon witness testimony. What we need are scientific, established criteria to measure its validity.

Party Recipies!!!

Yes, it's already the Big Day! I can hardly believe it. And, in addition to the traditional celebration of the marriage of Prince Berenguer III and Countess Douce I, I understand an exciting display of sporting prowess is planned!  Here are some ideas on how to feed your inevitable guests!

Rainbow Jell-o

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces each raspberry and lemon jello packages
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 12 ounces frozens
• rum

Directions:

These are mostly irrelevant
1. Drain juice from a 12-ounce package of frozen raspberries. Discard.
2. Grease a jello mold with butter.
3. Soften cream cheese and whip.

4. Boil 2 1/2 cups water. 

5. Time for rum!

6. Get jello, and when done pour more lemon jello mixture over the top.
7. Let set and then invert onto a plate for presentation.

Tweetping

Tweetping uses -- surprise, surprise, pings from tweets -- and the javascript building program node.js to track Twitter traffic in real time around the world. This is fascinating. [Ed: you may just be easily amused.]  Via MetaFilter.

A Real-Time Visualization of a Zebra Fish's Response to Food

Said to be the first video of its kind, Japanese researchers have videotaped neuronal response to a stimulus -- specifically, the neuronal response of a larval zebrafish in response to food. So, here's it is:

That's actually a short segment. A longer, more descriptive video abstract can be found here (on site select tab for video -- it's not embedable). Here they describe their work (from their written abstract):

To understand how the brain perceives the external world, it is desirable to observe neuronal activity in the brain in real time during perception. The zebrafish is a suitable model animal for fluorescence imaging studies to visualize neuronal activity because its body is transparent through the embryonic and larval stages. ... Here we demonstrate visualization of neuronal activity in the optic tectum of larval zebrafish by genetically expressing the new version of GCaMP [a calcium indicator]. First, we demonstrate [calcium] transients in the tectum evoked by a moving spot on a display and identify direction-selective neurons. Second, we show tectal activity during perception of a natural object, a swimming paramecium, revealing a functional visuotopic map. Finally, we image the tectal responses of a free-swimming larval fish to a paramecium and thereby correlate neuronal activity in the brain with prey capture behavior.

Exciting!

Steve Goodman. I'm Just Sayin'.

When I was in undergraduate school Goodman came through and sang. Incredible. He died not too long after (this video well predates that).

The Yang Short Form

The Yang short form, which is also known by variants of "the 24 form," "the 24 movements," "the simplified form," etc., is the official "sport" or "wushu" form of t'ai chi ch'uan (太極拳, also romainized as taijiquan). Although it is primarily derivative of the Yang branch of t'ai chi, Yang masters often disavow it.

Yet, putting those disputes and various mystical gildings to the side, it is still quite beautiful. I thought this performance, by Gao Jiamin, was particularly taking:

Here it is from the back and here are some of the key moves with their English names. And, for reference, here's a video of famous practitioner Chen Man-Ch'ing doing his shortened form of the Yang style (I'd embed this one as it is quite beautiful, too, but doing so has been disabled ... which, frankly, is just obnoxious).

A Chart from the Washington Post on Abortion Laws

From the Wonk Blog at the Washington Post (N.B. the length of the bars in each color is a little misleading):

This Blog Abandons What Intellectual Integrity It Had

Here's Actress Minnie Driver reading a list of banned racing horse names. Ha ha Minnie Driver said "Hoof Hearted." Okay, it's a fart joke. We've been reduced to fart jokes.

From Blame It On the Voices.