June 2007
199 posts
Dog lost to Wilma is found 2 years later -... →
It’s the feel-good story of the day
Freakonomics Blog » How Not To Get Elected... →
I knew I could never get elected president! (Bonus if you figure out why)
May 2007
99 posts
“While no stone should be left unturned in seeking to discover the nature of...”
– What I Think About Evolution - Sam Brownback
“Your visit to a happy ending”
– On a sign outside a NYC peepshow
Ooga Labs →
Currier, who struck it big by selling his first startup Tickle to Monster.com in 2004 for more than $100 million, is determined to make his latest venture, Ooga Labs, as innovative as its products. He calls it a “technology greenhouse,” a hydroponic environment that harnesses so much energy and ingenuity that it can nurture a crop of companies. The 13-employee San Francisco startup...
Digging biodynamic / Restaurateurs look beyond... →
Based on Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and anthroposophy… for food. Weird, but Manresa is a great restaurant…
Baby found hanged but alive; 4 dead in Texas →
“A 23-year-old mother apparently hanged herself and her four small daughters in a closet in their mobile home. An 8-month-old survived and was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said Tuesday. … Less than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.” What is with this town?...
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know... →
How many do you know? There were at least three I wasn’t sure about (bowdlerize, jejune, moiety) and plenty that don’t often come up in regular conversation, but still an interesting list
Cindy Sheehan Pulls Back from being the Face of... →
“The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party”...
JS Online: Dalai Lama digs into veal, pheasant →
“It’s a question most chefs never get the privilege of pondering: What to serve the Dalai Lama? In Milwaukee chef Sandy D’Amato’s case, the answer was veal. Veal? Despite expectations that a vegetarian feast would be in order, the team of chefs assembled to cook for His Holiness on his recent visit to Madison was given no such instruction, said Catherine McKiernan,...
“I adore animals. In thirty years, I could be a cat lady if I’m not...”
– Elissa Altman: The Tortured Omnivore
LiveScience.com : The Top 10 Intelligent Designs... →
Blocky - Free Online Game from Shockwave →
Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and... →
Pie Charts -- Flags By Colours →
“Let’s take this argument a piece at a time. It’s true that two...”
– The empty case against Mary Cheney. - By William Saletan
“The other thing that struck me about the debate on global warming is that both...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Global Warming – Part 2
More on the Creation Museum: Creation Museum... →
“What separates the Creation Museum from its Bible-boosting brethren is the promoters’ assertion that they can prove through science that the book of Genesis is true. All of it. But in this latest demonization of Darwinian evolution, there is a sticking point: For the biblical account to be accurate and the world to be so young, several hundred years of research in geology, physics,...
The Creation Museum in Kentucky →
“Exhibits show the Grand Canyon took just days to form during Noah’s flood, dinosaurs coexisted with humans and had a place on Noah’s Ark, and Cain married his sister to people the earth, among other Biblical wonders. … A Gallup poll last year showed almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created by God in their present form within the last...
“The Human Project gives this great big dinner, all the scientists and sages in...”
– Children of Men
The Caution Horses - Cowboy Junkies →
People Come and Go But the Music They Introduced Me to Remains #103 — My first boyfriend ever made me a mix tape with the Cowboy Junkies. He didn’t last but I’m still buying their newest music now.
The great iPod exchange →
The experiment: Trade iPods for a few days and assess. The iPods: Schlenker’s is an original iPod shuffle named “Tighty Whitey.” Thornton’s is an iPod shuffle clip. Because both players are shuffles, there are no digital read-outs revealing song names, thus they often had no idea what they were hearing. (Cool idea! Anyone up for it?)
“Children: they’re cute at first, sure, but they’re also loud,...”
– JayPinkerton.com
I need to make a big decision about my life, and I’m extremely sad about
it. I can’t tell which path is the best way to go. One is scarier and more
painful but may lead to more happiness eventually. The other is the life I
have now, a very good life, but lacking. Am I a fool if I give up what I
have? Or is it worse to be too afraid to change?
“As a candidate for the Republican nomination, Giuliani once again finds himself...”
– Is Giuliani too liberal for the GOP?
“There hasn’t been a significant improvement in saying “I’m...”
– Ze Frank (via and Jack came tumbl’ing after)
“Azia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She graduated from one of...”
– The Stanford Daily Online (You mean I didn’t really have to pay all that money and take all those tests?)
From V for Vendetta
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
30 pieces of trivia about Star Wars →
Working at Google vs Working at Meetup →
