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High-concept low tech
The guide to one-night stands (fairly safe for work). I actually did laugh out loud.
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The mystery of the bees…
It might have been solved, or so says Ron Bailey in Reason. It’s Israeli acute paralysis virus about which I know nothing.
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Freeman Dyson
David Friedman links to this essay about climate change from mega-scientist Freeman Dyson. It’s quite interesting reading, and Dyson is a fascinating man. Check out the Wikipedia entry and the WikiQuote entry. I need to get some of his books.
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The funniest thing on CNN.com today
This article, about the German terror arrests (which isn’t funny mind you) contains the following passage
the same chemical used in the London transport bombs that killed 52 people and four terrorists in 2005
Note the distinction!
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An interesting thought experiment
PurpleSlog has an interesting thought experiment of What Five Places/Events Would You Visit With A Time Machine? They are
- Israel at the start of Christianity (the same as PurpleSlogs)
- The Kennedy Assassination – I’m partial to the Oswald acted alone theory, but it would be nice to know for sure.
- The Russian revolution
- The writing of the US Declaration of Independence and Constitution
- The White House with Lincoln during the Civil War
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I’m back
The trip was nice, more details to follow
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Adventures in profiling
The New York Times wins the saggy pants headline contest with “The Boxer Rebellion“. It’s about the current mini-craze to outlaw thug-style fashion in some cities. I have no idea why we would want to outlaw this fashion statement. How you dress says a lot about a person, and in this case it says “I’m a ridiculous person who’s wasting my time, and I’ll probably waste yours”. Isn’t it better to know that in the two seconds it takes to see a person instead of the five minutes it might take talking to him?
We should be encouraging this sort of behavior instead of outlawing it. This is America, and time is valuable.
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Kudos to CNN.com
I’m linked from their From the Blogs Section on this story.
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An interesting article in the New Yorker
Check out Parallel Play by Tim Page, about a life with Aspberger syndrome. I’ve got most of these personality traits (and other characteristics) but several orders of magnitude less severe.
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The funniest thing I’ve read today
While getting my credit report in advance of the new mortgage
Should you wish to contact TransUnion, you may do so
Wow! Why do they feel it’s necessary to put that there?