A reminder to check the Bed Bug Registry and Bed Bug City for hotels as well, and also ApartmentRatings.Com if I’m ever moving again, with regards to bedbugs.
(tags: reference useful)
Steven Hawking asked Yahoo! Answers:
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?
He flagged as the best answer:
Political and social chaos has been with us for a very long time. Given the revolutions of the past and present, class warfare, and scheming of those [...]
Chris Rice: “No, I’ve never written a children’s song, just a satirical song about the modern Christian tendency to ‘Christianize’ everything. I was hoping everyone would get the satire, but they missed the satire, and embraced the song as legit.”
(tags: religion neocon funny)
I’ve been working my way through the Left Behind series of books. So far, I’m on Demon Locusts: Comin’ to Sting the Ever-Lovin’ Shit Out of Everybody — I’m sorry, that’s a misprint — Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed, which is book five of the original twelve.
I finally have gotten around to reading them [...]
I’m really impressed by an anonymous Michigan blogger I ran across recently who wrote about his wife and a horrible decision that few males ever have to make:
Now I’m handed a clipboard. On it is consent to basically give my wife an abortion and kill our future child. And it is all on me, my [...]
Christian singer Chris Rice wrote a song called “Cartoons” in which he muses about what it might be like if cartoons became born-again Christians, singing the word “hallelujah” in extremely good impressions of various children’s cartoon figures — Astro from The Jetsons, the Smurfs, and so on.
The lyrics are here. (By the way, I [...]
Laura Bush: “[N]o one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm’s way.”
Yes. Mothers have their sons and daughters die, or have amputations, or just the agony of NOT KNOWING. But George & Laura [...]
What. The. Fuck:
[W]e’ve got to make sure that we do not let go 50 terrorists who will go out and plant a bomb in London and kill 20,000 people in order to protect that one person who we arrested accidentally because his name was the same. That’s the type of unfortunate consequence. [...]
CNN: “The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.”
Quite glad to hear it.
(tags: religion goodideas government military)
If you took LSD in the 1960s but don’t live in the United States, don’t admit to it. [...]
Why Do Cats … ?
Great reference for why cats behave as they do.
(tags: useful cats reference)
Ask MetaFilter: What does my cat think I am?
What does your cat perceive you as? I got some great answers on Ask Mefi.
(tags: cool useful cats)
Boing Boing: Todd Goldman’s lawyers sending nastygrams
“It’s as if a thousand worms, crawling over [...]
Hartford Advocate journalist Jennifer Abel recounts her brief career trying out being a phone sex worker for a story.
(tags: interesting sex food4thought)
“I’m reading a book called WebMage by Kelly McCullough, which is very interesting. It’s got a world where magic and technology are one, and hacking is a form of sorcery. Wizards have [...]
Gmail Super Clean
(tags: gmail)
macosxhints.com - 10.4: Watch zoomed-in video without the mouse pointer
“Type a key on your keyboard; I like the up arrow. This hides the cursor.”
(tags: reference useful apple video)
Quick Tip: Create a Whole Dir Path with One Stroke
“Just do this: mkdir -p a/b/c.”
(tags: reference useful geekery cool)
Unofficial Apple Weblog: “iPhone” on Lost?
Not really, [...]
Neil Steinberg on people’s rush to assign meanings to the Virginia Tech massacre.
“That is the only fact that matters right now. It is unseemly for us, the untouched, to rush to assign self-serving interpretations to their nightmare, to dip our fingers in the blood and draw posters promoting our pet causes. It’s obscene.”
(tags: insightful powerful)
Boing [...]
Son of Super Mario
Neat idea.
(tags: images cool nostalgia games)
Dennis Kucinich might be a bit too far left even for me, but I like the idea of First Lady Elizabeth Kucinich. Homina.
(tags: woohoo photos cute)
“The president’s right to control his own message includes the right to exclude people expressing discordant viewpoints from the audience.” [...]
On a separate note, I just can’t say in words how much this amazes me:
In Monday morning’s lecture on solid mechanics, all was quiet except for the sound of Professor Liviu Librescu’s voice.
Then came the gunshots — in the classroom next door. In an instant, Virginia Tech’s Norris Hall, a building dedicated to the science [...]
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