that's just how we swing

Via TSH,

Ever wonder why we swing our arms when we walk? Is it just a left-over trait from when we were on all fours?

Well, some researchers were interested in answering that question. They found out that swinging arms wasn’t quite the waste of energy most had assumed. In fact, holding your arms by your side while walking requires 12% more metabolic energy.

Why do I see a future infomercial on the handcuff calorie burning plan?

Notes

• In a roman candle fight, having more roman candles than your opponents confers a significant tactical advantage.
  
  
• From now on they should always play the superbowl in the rain.
  
  
• Grad unionists will be interested to know that the word on the street is that the kids in corn country reached a tentative agreement on Friday.
  
  
• Memo to GM: When you've spent the last several years buying out and laying off actual real human workers, it's bad form to put together a superbowl commercial that features a robot arm daydreaming about all of the shit jobs it will be consigned to if it loses its position on the GM assembly line. Having the robot arm dream of committing suicide is a particularly nasty touch.
  
  
• Guitar Hero is a really fun game.

Must. Write. Blog. Post. (cough) (cough)

Item: I'm not sick. I don't get sick. It's one of the many benefits of being a nonsmoker. Ask anyone.

Item: This YouTube vid is awesome. So is this one. Both via unfogged, which should probably be on the blogroll.

Item: After watching The Karate Kid, I always believe that I'm 126 minutes closer to death.

Item: If you follow only one link in this post, it should be this one.

Item: If you're looking for somebody to blame for that last one, blame Neil the Ethical Werewolf.

Item: Speaking of blogs that should probably be on the blogroll, there's Axis of Evil Knievel.

Item: Interesting historical fact. Back in the day they used to display the impaled heads of traitors on pikes located at the entrance to London Bridge. Preserved by being dipped in tar, individual heads remained on display for decades or even centuries. The practice didn't end until 1660, after more than 30 heads had accumulated.

That's all I got.