Links posted in February 2007
February 28, 2007
US Army to Fox's "24": Just Stop with the Torture Scenes
Each season of “24,” which has been airing on Fox since 2001, depicts a single, panic-laced day in which Jack Bauer—a heroic C.T.U. agent, played by Kiefer Sutherland—must unravel and undermine a conspiracy that imperils the nation.
With unnerving efficiency, suspects are beaten, suffocated, electrocuted, drugged, assaulted with knives, or more exotically abused; almost without fail, these suspects divulge critical secrets.
. . . Earlier this month, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan visited the set of 24 to urge its makers to cut down on torture scenes.
He told the show's producers, "I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires. The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24?'
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The Danish Poet. The winner of this year's Oscar for animated short. It's cute, funny and colorful. Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Narrated charmingly by Liv Ullmann.
Stromboli is at it again. The island of Stromboli (made famous by the eponymous film) is suffering another eruption. You may be able to watch live via this dodgy webcam, but if not, here is a link to a number of other volcano cams, and here are some pictures of previous eruptions. [more inside]
Dead baby comes back to life ...
Almost enough to make you believe in God ... 2 week old baby has heart attack ... doctors do all they can but can't save him ... given back to parents so they can say goodbye ... whereupon he starts breathing again ... now perfectly healthy.
In other baby news: an unexpected side-effect of viagra
That's enough baby news: Ed
Mexicans cross 'the border' – at a theme park. And another look.
Cyborg Flying Rats Invade China Nuff Said.
February 27, 2007
Charles Whitman! Tesla Coil! Subjugator!
Them Texans is crazy. They like to blow things up real good.
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The Honus Wagner Baseball Card, "The Holy Grail of Baseball Cards" has sold for $US 2.3 Million Dollars. One of the first baseball cards, and extremely rare, this specimen was previously owned by Hockey great Wayne Gretzky. [more inside]
Shortwave operators have been tracking numbers stations for years. Stories have been done on radio and TV about these things, but this meaty site contains much clickable fun, audio and otherwise. [more inside]
Why I refused to blog for Edwards Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein explains why she didn't blog for the John Edwards campaign. [more inside]
C for Cookie [YouTube]
February 26, 2007
The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood. [Via]
What's Opera, Doc? (Youtube) Surely the greatest cartoon ever made.
Librarys(ians) are hot. Plato's thoughts are online.They are also available at my library. I prefer the library, because Wikipedia, and other on-line sources aren't reliable. (It also helps that my librarian wears the sexy librarian glasses.).
Al Sharpton's ancestors were slaves owned by Strom Thurmond's relatives
The reverend Al Sharpton is a descendant of slaves who were once the property of the Thurmonds, ancestors of the late senator Strom Thurmond is perhaps one of the strongest supporters of south segregation. [...]
Dig this pic of the family grave/plot, over at NY Daily News.
Paper Gods Nice little collection of old Chinese religious images.
February 25, 2007
Poland beat Croatia on penalties recently to take the world soccer title. The Catholic priests' world soccer title, that is. [more inside]
Giant Microbes. Yes, all the plushie viruses and bacteria you have ever wanted, and more. I think the Mad Cow would make a fine doorstop.
February 24, 2007
Why God Favors America "We're gonna die now."
It's Official: Britney Spears' freak out no longer funny. [more inside]
Come on up! Except for you. And you. Oh, and also, you.
February 23, 2007
37 fads that swept the U.S. From break dancing and bermuda shorts to hula hoops and "have a nice day".
Platypuses and their gronking noiseses. [more inside]
Curious George: Blinking HDD Light!
I noticed the hard drive activity light on my computer was blinking every second - on the second - when I was absentmindedly staring at it and noticed it synched up with the ticking of the clock on the wall.
Thus began my strange odd-yssey to make it stop.
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Indonesians have massive balls, plan to plug volcano.
[Curious George] Help finding a DIY eye looky thing I saw once online instructions for making a device (called a ...?) which allows a person's two eyes to look into one another. It's a little box, mirrors, etc..., and one looks into the two eye holes. Any help finding it, or even a name for such device?
Ambient noise, apparently free. Here's purring. Here's the scratch of a pencil. Here's a typewriter (with carriage returns). Here's a restaurant. Um, warning: sound.
I defy anyone to find a webpage that sums up everything that rules about the internet more than this webpage does. I just achieved enlightenment, but I bodhisattva-d out just to tell you guys.
The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum is a large archive of texts in Latin, most of which, thankfully, have translations into English and other languages. It's brought to you by the people at Forum Romanum. [more inside]
February 22, 2007
Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears... [more inside]
"Britain is repossessing the USA" by John Cleese
Taxonomy Explorer: the Classification of Species [more inside]
A golden-eyed priestess has been discovered by Lorenzo Costatini's team in Shahr-i-Sokhta.
Colossalest Colossal Squid
ever is caught by New Zealand fishermen. Otherwise known as Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni, it's much bigger than the last one that was caught.
Last link from the ever excellent Cephalopod News.
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Clowns Shot During Performance
Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday.
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February 21, 2007
Curious George and his cable / internet bundle. Ontarian monkeys -- I need your help. After years of no cable nor home intertube access, I'm about to make the jump to hyperspace and get both. [more inside]
Ewe must be kidding. Right? (NSFW if you ever hope to be promoted)
Meet the inspiration for Yoda... alas, not a monkey.
I tried hard to find supporting links . . . but they were all awful. So I'm posting a single youtube link of a very young Aretha Franklin singing the hell out of "Natural woman." [more inside]
It being Auden's Centenary, here's an article about him. Here's a link to some of his poetry. Here, and here, and here are links to Auden reading his own poetry. Here is contemporary pastiche. The Auden Society, if you're interested, is here.
February 20, 2007
Pat, I'd Like To Buy A Sandwich Can't decide where to go for lunch? Just enter your Zip Code (yes, sorry, US only) and the query "Lunch" and let the Wheel Of Food pick which local restaurant you'll grace with your patronage!
Scallops are harvested by ‘dredging’ - dragging a set of steel spikes over the sea-bed. This dislodges the shellfish, produces $5 million per annum for the fishing-boats and reduces the sea-bed – sponges, corals, sea-fans and all – to barren rubble. [more inside]
But isn't TV supposed to turn you into a zombie..?
February 19, 2007
Curious George goes down the pub It's time for a London meetup again, oh yes. [more inside]
HowTo: Make DVDs out of YouTube videos
How can you watch those visually stunning YouTube videos away from the pesky Intertubes? Just follow the instructions, and it's a snap!*
* Is not a snap. Involves downloading and installing two or more separate (but free) programs and reading some or all of the instructions. And the video quality on your television isn't all that great anyway but hey there you go. Do not take thread comments internally. Not for sale to minors. Free drinks until 5 p.m. for the Ladies.
via Lifesmacker
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Rich and famous sign name of poor and unknown What's an autograph by Yoko Ono, David Sedaris, the late Spalding Gray, or architect Frank Gehry worth? Better yet, what's it worth if said celebrities sign not their names but that of the autograph seeker? Paul Schmelzer got more than 70 people--including Jesse Ventura, Wim Wenders, Noam Chomsky, and the voice of Homer Simpson--to sign his Germanic, unfamous name. Funnier still is those who didn't sign but took time to mail back a reply: Mikhail Baryhshnikov, Tom Clancy, etc.
It's the 21st Century, damnit - where's my jetpack?
- Here's a look at the progress of the hydrogen peroxide rocket belt. Dan Schlund seems to be the current world master of hydrogen peroxide hovering (yootoob), but it's still only a 30-second flight.
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Mummy, the food is looking at me! [more inside]
"Don't kiss her till she has carried out her duties," writes the cad of the kitchen, in his manual of cookery and seduction.
Licit and illicit drug use is part of our world, so here's to harm reduction. Some stated principles are here. The "Hotties of Harm Reduction" are here.
How depressed is your country? "Picture the countries battling the highest rates of depression, and you probably think of those that are developing or poor. Think again."
1.618:
a music video for BT's song of the same name. Exploring the golden ratio in electronic music and computer animation. Free but large download (186MB)
[via deviantART.com]
Another link here for DivX Web Player.
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February 18, 2007
Children's monster drawings redone by artists.
Elephant self-recognition Considered an indicator of self-awareness, mirror self-recognition has long seemed limited to humans and apes. [more inside]
February 17, 2007
Four legged duck makes Sunday lunch arguments about who has a leg obsolete.
CONSERVATIVES GET EDGY IN FOX’S FAKE NEWS SHOW. And a YouTube clip: Coulter & Limbaugh Introduce 1/2 Hour News Hour.
art, toys, funky stuff
Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-A-O (Comrade Duck) Mickey Mao!
This and other funky monkery at munky king
February 16, 2007
China state TV bans pig images in ads to avoid offending Muslims.
Top 5 ways to hustle free drinks. A beginner's guide to the art of the bar/pub proposition bet.
Many presidential "firsts" possible in 2008. The 2008 presidential field presents a veritable cornucopia of potential firsts – a woman, an African-American, a Hispanic, a Mormon, and, representing the attribute perhaps most sensitive for discussion, a top contender who would be the oldest person ever to assume the American presidency.
I guess that makes it half interesting Canadian start-up demos half of the first commercial quantum computer.
The Legendary... Mars Attacks! Looks familiar, doesn't it? [more inside]
Duh! Wondered why mine still functions after the bashing it's had. Now i know why.
February 15, 2007
Australian National Public Toilet Map
Now that's handy.
via growabrain
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Caveat Emailum
Subject lines used in the attack are many and varied, but all pose as a romantic message. Some of them include: 'A Valentine Love Song', 'Be My Valentine', 'Fly Away Valentine', 'For My Valentine' and 'Happy Valentine's Day'.
The worm is attached to the emails in files called 'flash postcard.exe', 'greeting postcard.exe', 'greeting card.exe', or 'postcard.exe'.
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Chocolate, champagne, romantic dinner whilst watching animals mate in captivity
[...] Jane Tollini (a former penguin keeper at the San Francisco Zoo) conceived the idea two decades ago while watching her penguins' courtship ritual, which culminates in what she describes as "bowling pins making love."
"The keepers get there early and we see things that other people don't see," Tollini said. "And I went, 'My God, that's fascinating.' You know the old Peter Sellers line, 'I like to watch?' You kind of go, 'Oh my, my, my. How big? How many? How far?' It was unbelievable."
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YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF GODDAMN SHEEP. Gizmodo attempts to look more authentic, less like a press release revolving door. Baby Jesus throws up in his mouth a little.
Carl Linnaeus is 300. 2007 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, aka Carl von Linné, the father of modern plant and animal classification, who provided a survey of over 7,000 species of plants and 4,000 species of animals, which works helped to establish and standardize the consistent binomial nomenclature for species. [more inside]
Why Take Drugs When you Can Have Maths? (and a camera)
Art for sale, cheap-ish. Phineas X. Jones is a painter, photographer, web designer. He needs to sell some art for health reasons, and he's going cheap. Here's his price list.
February 14, 2007
Lamilite neutralizes water! Outdoors gear peddler and crazy-ass objectivist Jerry Wigutow wades chestdeep into the crazy with his most recent newsletter. It's nothing new. [more inside]
Curious George: Scanning 1000 same-size photos. I'm about to scan most of my family's old print photos to pass around on DVD+R, and many of them are the same size prints. [more inside]
Feng Shui goodness, monkey style.
Cupidinous George II
Oh MonkeyFilter, me love you long time!
Well, it seems that old Cupid has forsaken us this year, so Simian XX is stepping up to the plate!
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Curious George: cat-piss annoyance Feline-loving monkeys please help ... One of our cats keeps peeing in her basket ... [more inside]
Learn To Speak Body [youtube] will teach you how to understand people at a party without words. [more inside]
Baby I love Baby! [more inside]
February 13, 2007
A Man's Home is his Castle Cabin.
Having run out of furs, Canadians will now ship out log cabins to the UK. A perfect fit -- be seeing you, eh?
When Harry Met Betty
The history of cake has been long and varied, and many have interesting histories. Some are misleadingly named. However, few have had as mysterious and interesting a history as one of the 20th century's most famous cakes, the Chiffon.
From the always wonderful Rake Magazine.
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Goatse has nothing on me. For I have the greatest glory hole of all!
Frontline: News War Readers didn't need a week of front-page stories about diaper-wearing astronauts and the alleged cultural significance of Anna Nicole Smith to tell them that the Fourth Estate is having an identity crisis. There's also last week's Pentagon inspector general report criticizing the Bush administration's manipulation of prewar intelligence, reminding Americans that most of the Beltway media danced to the White House's drumbeat to the Iraq war four years ago. [more inside]
What does a bid for the White House and Cockfighting have in common? While New Mexico argues over those little warriors that come out of eggs, things can get quite serious. Have no fear, there's always Gamecock Boxing! [more inside]
Mark Wickens collects olive oil labels and fruit wrappers for fun and profit.
London: A Life in Maps Lovely microsite from the British Library. As well as the maps, some nice e-cards to send, and even a Google Earth layer. Cor blimey!
Encrypted file sharing solutions could end RIAA lawsuits! [more inside]
February 12, 2007
Death by lethal injection -- is it cruel and unusual punishment?
Doubloons! Every year during Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans, the various marching groups, known as krewes, toss to the crowd aluminum coins called doubloons. Doubloons typically have the krewe name or insignia on one side, and a depiction of that year's Mardi Gras theme on the other. Paradegoers like to collect the doubloons, and some can sell for $25 or more on Ebay.
Card companies now selling both the poison and the cure. Not rich enough selling Valentine's Day cards and pocketing some of the individual's average $92.30 spent each year, some greeting card companies are now aiming for the Anti-Valentine's Day crowd. Aah, the ironies of Capitalism...
A Designer Grand Piano (YouTube) Looks great; sounds tinny. [more inside]
Curious George: Sankyo for your help. Monkeying around with an old movie projector and roont it! [more inside]
Purple & Brown. Aardman at it again. [more inside]
BBC takes a look at 11th September 2001 controversies. [NewsFilter] [more inside]
February 11, 2007
"The Last Good Morning"
There's something about cereal mascots and the way they get burned into your head, especially the ones from when you were a kid. Between the constant barrage of commercials on Saturday mornings to begging your parents for a box of sugary crap just for a cheap, plastic toy, no wonder they worm their way into your subconscious.
So, if you happen to have any cherished memories left you'd like to keep of them, please don't read this comic.
Niger economy benefits from trees.
(Newsfilter, NYT registration may be required.
Farmers in Niger have begun loving the trees they used to cut down to grow crops.
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February 10, 2007
Curious George: I forgot my parchment paper. I am making little curried potato pasties, but forgot to buy parchment paper at the store. Is there something else I can use to bake these on? Would it ruin them to butter the pan a bit so they do not stick?
Daleks as a force for good Missed this at the time. Would that all pitiless mutants bent on universal domination exhibited such a fine social conscience.
Using Second Life to treat agoraphobia. "Meet Roberto, quite an eye-catching avatar who is one of the more interesting characters that can be found frequenting random areas of the Second Life world...Roberto Salvatierra...is a medical student from San Jose, Costa Rica, who suffers from the fear of open places and being out in public that is known as agoraphobia...his main reason for making his avatar resemble his real-life image as closely as possible was to help him in curing his affliction."
Curious George: Hope me find the name of a book Gettin' breezy in here [more inside]
Cows with guns! Go ahead, pretend you don't like it, pretend you didn't laugh, but if you don't wait for the chickens, don't come crying to me about it!
February 09, 2007
They Got Older, Too
...and in theory, wiser. We asked the pop icons you grew up with what they've learned about money.
Bill Shatner, Cheryl Tiegs, Ron Howard, Denzel Washington, James Taylor and more with a sentence or two on what they've learned about money.
via linkfilter
Curious George: Teacher tributes The recent, unexpected death of the favourite tutor of my college years, eminent Shakespearean A. D. Nuttall, prompts me to ask: who are the teachers who helped shape your life? Did they guide you in a subject that would become your life's work? Offer understanding during a difficult time? Or were they just generally cool and inspiring? Post your tales here.
Put Down The Duckie A classic, star-studded musical number to put a smile on your face. [YOUTUBE, MUPPETS!, SINGING] [more inside]
A million penguins
- writing a novel by wiki. Join in!
Via spurgeonblog
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World Press Photo Awards 2007. The winner, and a few of my favourites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. [more inside]
The Truth About Beauty. "Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is."
Doomsday vault design unveiled. The Svalbard International Seed Vault, built into the natural refrigeration of the permafrost in Arctic Norway, will safeguard the means to resurrect the planet's agriculture - in case it all goes to hell in a handbasket. [more inside]
February 08, 2007
HAVIDOL: When More Is Not Enough. Via.
Anna Nicole Smith is dead. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Florida and pronounced dead at a local hospital.
2006 Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll. [more inside]
I'm confused... so how old am I exactly?
Curious George: Make Windows Pretty Now!
I'm sick of the look of Windows and want to make it pretty and/or shiny. Or something. I use Style XP on one machine, but I paid for that years ago and there's got to be some excellentness out there in free, opensource glory.
What do you use? See also the Desktop thread.
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February 07, 2007
Lloyd? Is that you? Searching for some information on Lloyd Moseby, I found what looks to be his myspace page. [more inside]
Guinea-Bissau discovers that Whoopi Goldberg is their most famous daughter. "Come to visit us!" they ask. [more inside]
Steve Jobs wants to end copy protection for online music. This could be controversial, eh?
It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact.
MetaMix! In case you missed my announcement on MeFi, I just launched MetaMix, a forum for MeFi, MeCha, and MoFi members to trade mixtapes and talk about music. Sign up with your MeFi, MeCha, or MoFi username and join the fun!
Video: Mind Control Made Easy (or How to Become a Cult Leader). A humorous yet informative video on cult brainwashing by Evil Films.
February 06, 2007
Ghost radar
does not guarantee to detect ghosts, nor does it imply that they exist. But it might, and they may. However, your interaction, emotional state, and belief system, may be important factors in how you interpret unusual events.
Letter bomb sent to London Congestion Charge Office.
And I've just heard that another letter bomb has been sent to the offices of Vantis in Wokingham, a company apparently involved in speed cameras.
'Captain Gatso', the head of Motorists Against Detection, has denied responsibility, although he said, "there is a war against motorists, and this was an act of retaliation".
Official activities like the Congestion Charge divide opinion in London. More unpopular are poorly regulated clamping and towing companies - but at least there's a solution for that.
But watch out libertarian motorists, along with your god, Jeremy Clarkson, George Monbiot is on your case!
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Astronaut or Space Cadet? Astronaut Lisa Nowak has a court appearance today, relating to a kidnap plot in a love triangle over astronaut William Oefelein. [more inside]
British cops clamp down on lone flasher Somerset Police handed out disposable cameras to women to help them catch a lone flasher in Burnham-on-Sea. Ladies are helping the police doing their job in this "winkie-cam" sting!
Chillis [sic] galore. Here are some pretty pictures of chilis and how hot they are. There are chile facts, growing tips, recipes, and links. [more inside]
Curious George I'm looking for monkeys who are currently residing in Nigeria, and have been for at least 4 years. Odd request, yes, but lets just say I have interesting professors.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: "One evening while taking photographs at the American Museum of Natural History, I had a near-hallucinatory vision. My internal question-and-answer session leading up to this vision went something like this: "Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?" The answer: "You get a shining screen." Immediately I began experimenting in order to realize this vision. One afternoon I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture. When the movie finished two hours later, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening I developed the film, and my vision exploded before my eyes." [more inside]
February 05, 2007
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. (YouTube)
The Briefcase That Changed the World In the summer of 1940, Sir Henry Tizard carried a briefcase to the US. This was the Tizard Mission. Contained in the briefcase were plans for the Cavity Magnetron, a device that would change the world. Sir Henry Tizard's mission was to simply hand over the plans for the cavity magnetron and the rest of England's military technology to the US. [more inside]
Snickers' Super Homophobia
For their contribution to SuperBowl advertising yesterday, Snickers ran an spot where two mechanics start eating a Snickers bar from opposite ends until they end up kissing, a la "Lady and the Tramp." Then, to prove how not gay they really are, they have to "do something manly" to compensate.
The SuperBowl version has the men ripping out their chest hair as their proof of manliness, but other versions of the ad have the guys swilling motor oil or attacking each other violently in response. As if this wasn't explicitly disapproving enough for probably the most-viewed gay kiss ever on US TV, there is also an accompanying site which shows the ads and various football players being appalled by the kiss. I guess the only thing that satisfies more than Snickers is not being gay? via.
Court Martial Is 1st Lt. Ehren Watada standing up for what is right, or is he a Quisling? The court martial refuses to consider the first question, and hopes to convict him for treachery. [more inside]
Vincenzo
Lunardi made the first balloon trips in England.
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So far, about 340,000 are homeless
as Jakarta floods again.
Not really much of news here in the US, but it's quite a mess! What can one do? Keep their hopes up as the worst is yet to come...
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February 04, 2007
The Cynosphere. An unusual tricycle built in France in 1875, the Cynosphere was driven by two caged dogs.
[Curious George] Dad-to-be? Going to be a Dad in June/July and wondered if there was an experience-based "must have" list: I'm getting conflicting opinions from british sites. I know I need a moses basket/travel system thing and a cot bed etc. Seeing as i want to get a lot of stuff second hand I thought I'd start with a list of things.
Shave 'em dry! [sound; NSFW] Here's some old-time smutty singing, with a great giggle mid-song, from this side-long-glancing gal, Lucille Bogan. There's more listenable smut here.
A Week in Vegas
The company is sending me for a massive conference. Anyone got some insider info on something awesome to do that a tourist wouldn't normally know about?
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February 03, 2007
!Sydneysider Alert!
Koko is Koming!
I will be in Sydneyville from March 24th through April 7, and would love to meet you! This will be my first ever meetup yay!!!!
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February 02, 2007
Let's Be Friends...
A site that could go on for ever.
via
Celebrity StupidBowl Picks!
Bears or Colts? Colts or Bears? StupidBowl XLI is just about . . oh . . 49? Hours away!
Yes, enjoy the predictions of celebrities such as John Travolta, Jimmy Buffet . . um, Okay I don't know who that is . . nnnope don't know them . . uh, some dude . . Anyway -
What's your prediction??
It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana. Free .pdf available until Valentine's Day. In French and German as well as English, in case you're teaching your kids and want to work on some, uh, state-dependent learning. [more inside]
Curious George's birthweight. A very big baby was born in Mexico this week, tipping the scales at 14.1 pounds. How much did you weigh when you first showed up? What are your birth stats?
Curious Storytelling George I recently rejoined Toastmasters and one of the projects I have to do involves storytelling. Specifically, a 5 to 7 minute folktale before a live audience of about ten people. My folktale knowledge sucks. What would you recommend? Anything that is entertaining, novel, engaging and has a cool ending, would fit the bill...
It's a hot Texas Weiner tradition "In its simple, classic form, the Hot Texas Wiener is an all-beef hot dog "blanched" or par-cooked in 350-degree vegetable oil in a fry basket for a few minutes, cooked by another hot vegetable-oil bath in a tilted steel pan until done. . . [more inside]
Landmark American composer Gian Carlo Menotti has died aged 95. While searching for links I discovered the Database of Recorded American Music, an excellent audio resource which includes many works by Menotti. [more inside]
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stand on his head and juggle ice cream. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to replace the national anthem with 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet. (Personally, I'm with Billy Conolly, and holding out for the theme from the 'Archers'). [more inside]
North Korea Fights Famine With Flopsies via WaPo: "North Korean diplomats see a possible solution for their nation's endemic food shortage: an enormous bunny in every pot." Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail are not amused.
Bending Light is just one of one of many amazing sets by one of my Flickr favorites: reciprocity. Also of note: Taming light, twisting light, micro world, microscopy and close up on glass. [more inside]
February 01, 2007
God on Facebook. God on MySpace. God on 43 People. (I am highly suspicious that all of these are, in fact, God.) Have you found God in unexpected places?
Citizendium pilot opens. Sometime last week, with not much fanfare, the first open pilot for Larry Sanger's Citizendium project (think: Wikipedia with standards) commenced. Unlike the earlier closed pilot, anyone can now register as an "author" at Citizendium without having to petition the cabal (subject to certain conditions, of course). [more inside]
A Molly Ivins tribute from her editor, on the occasion of her passing away due to cancer. (Links to some of her last columns on that page). She was loved by many in the US for her often humorous and irreverent political commentary and philosophy. As she says to Americans in one of her last columns: "We are the deciders."
