Category Archive
March 19, 2005
Links
A brilliant way of making "starter" chopsticks.
A very cool photo collection of atmospheric phenomena and A href="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm">Snow Flakes.
A great update on "Who's on first?"
Get smarter. Read Malcom Gladwell and Paul Graham.
Scientific truth in Product Labels.
February 20, 2005
Opera
It's official. Opera really is the "Fastest Browser* in the World" (for most purposes).
* Full featured browsers that is.
January 14, 2005
Palantír security flaw
Elves Of Valinor Warn Of "Critical Security Flaw" In Palantír Browsers. Hee.
December 22, 2004
Cibo Matto can clog dance??!!?
The music video linked to in this post is simply awesome. Totally mindbending. I've watched it 4 or 5 times now and just get a kick out of it each time.
[Note: the title of this post has nothing to do with the actual video except that it is a Cibo Matto video. But bonus points to anyone who gets the reference.]
November 14, 2004
Autumn into Winter is the best time of year
I like it best then too. Boy do I miss Providence sometimes.When it snows and the roads are glazed over with danger. When cars turn timid and creep down the road like careful old housecats. When scarves cover misting mouths and I walk ungracefully with a waddle like a crippled penguin, because I dressed for autumn.
I like it best then, because everything is draped in a city-sized hush, because it is like Nature has shot us a stern look, and we are all on our best behavior.
P.S. Don't forget to read "Zeno's Cup: A Different Sort of Drinking Game", which appears directly underneath the above quoted post.
November 12, 2004
Plural of sheep
From the comments of a Slashdot thread:
In Europe, of course, the plural of Lego is Lego. Like sheep.
The response:
The plural of sheep is lego in Europe? You guys are wierd.
October 04, 2004
September 25, 2004
September 24, 2004
Luke, I am your Father...
Over on Slashdot, they had an article about the Star Wars Trilogy recently released on DVD. The comments were filled with "humorous" changes to the original trilogy that might conceivably have made. Most were stupid one-liners like having Leia say "Luke, I am your Mother", etc. One, however, was truly inspired...
September 19, 2004
Disappearing links
Chez Miscarriage had a post up about how women who became mothers in one way would look down on women who became mothers in some other fasion. And vice versa. Each type of mother seeking to put some other kind of mother lower on some hierarchy of better-motherhood. She mentioned adoptive mothers at the end noting that adoptive mothers never seem to fall prey to this, but rather they frequently wonder if they are indeed at the bottom of said heirarchy.
At any rate, the post is gone. Anyone have a mirror of it? Or getupgrrl's email address so I can ask her for the text?
September 10, 2004
media hedging
You've just got to love it when the media hedges its bets. Defective Yeti has a great little article with the following examples:
Two stories on the morning's wire: Clinton Absence Spells Either Boost or Bust for Kerry and Cheney May Help or Hinder Bush's Chances.
July 21, 2004
Heartbreaking
Here is the most heartbreaking post I've read in a good long time, if not ever. A choice quote that makes me cry (if only because I'd felt the same way during our struggle to have a child)
"I'm sorry," I whispered back to him.I really need to go and finish my infertility series. It's just that it is so hard to write and I hardly have the skills as a writer to do justice to what happened."What for?" he asked, confused.
"It's bad news," I answered. "It's bad news. I'm sorry. I lost the baby. I'm sorry. I know there was a heartbeat, but the baby is dead. I'm so sorry. It's bad news. If I wished anything for you, it's that you were married to someone other than me.
May 30, 2004
What part of safety is the important part?
Tree and her mother are always talking about how much safer big cars are. So I pass along statistics like these which show that Little Cars are safer than Big Trucks and SUVs.
"Well, the important thing," they reply "is that the big cars feel safer."
So it's more important to feel safer than to actually be safer?!!??!? Can someone enlighten me as to how this logic works?
February 03, 2004
January 30, 2004
Preview
Want a preview of what upcoming infertility posts will look like? Read Julie's post about infertility. A lot of the same emotions and situations are going to come up even if she's coming at it from a female perspective and I'm coming at if from a male one.
December 18, 2003
October 15, 2003
September 26, 2003
Non-Conspiracy Theories
I got a kick out of this:
Whenever I wonder about random things like "Why are commercial toilets shaped differently than residential ones?" I can usually think through an answer on my own ("Probably so they're easier to clean...") or I can Google up some answers fairly quickly. Just once, I wish the actual answer were something like "This was a decision made by a secret cabal consisting of Freemasons and a murky consortium of international financiers, designed to advance their nefarious goals through control of the world's toilet bowls." But that's never the answer.
The above quote was written by Anil Dash and licensed through a creative commons license.
September 09, 2003
September 04, 2003
Nagging Consistency
This is excellent! Why aren't more people at my school coming to conclusions (and writing papers) like this?
Favorite quote:
While the Bible is a famously supple text, allowing multiple, even contradictory exegeses on everything from the role of women to the death penalty, its message on the poor has an almost nagging consistency. The Jesus portrayed in the Gospels has enormous respect and compassion for the poor and little regard for wealth.
Nagging consistency indeed. Amen.
August 28, 2003
A bunch of links
Traffic Waves: read it and become a better driver.
A few articles to help you get your morning outrage going.
