Remarkable Essay about Haiti
I have no words after reading this other than to say that you should read it as well. h/t Driftglass
Month: February 2010
Why You Should be Skeptical of Science Headlines
Amy Tuteur has an important post over at Science-Based Medicine that you really should take the time to read. In a nutshell, she points out the problems with accepting the LATEST AND GREATEST SCIENCE DISCOVERY OF ALL TIME headlines that media organizations and (some) journalists love to put out there as a way to get …
Love Bursting Like a Chestburster
Now this is a wedding cake:Make: Online : HR Giger wedding cake Powered by ScribeFire.
Witches Commies and Terrorists Oh My!
For a country that prides itself on democracy and freedom, the U.S. has a long history of blind and unthinking allegiance to scapegoating whoever the government wants scapegoated. What is amusing is that this blind, unthinking, slack-jawed version of democracy, while not a product of any one political party, is particularly apparent in the conservative …
One Way to Avoid the Crowds
Live here, on Vestmannaeyjar Island in Iceland: I think I’d love to live like that for a month or two, bring my guitar and my computer, no internet access, nothing but my thoughts, the wind, the ocean, the stars at night, and a chance to radically shift gears for a while. I’m guessing that after …
Big Supplement
Why is it that the people who are concerned about “Big Pharma” seem to to accept that all those aisles and aisles of supplements that are marketed as panaceas for nearly every physical ailment (including age and death), and that cost significant amounts of money are put out there for the good of the consumer …
Netflix and the Nyquil Dreams
Wherein I share the link to Joseph Devon’s “The Five Stages of Netflix”
A Bunny and a Bear on a Beach with Ukulele
Wherein I share a video of U900, Japanese Ukulele Duo (in their form as a crocheted bunny and bear).
Wait Wait . . . BRAINS!
Wherein I share a link to a fun script for a Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me episode from the zombie apocalypse.
A Brave and Glorious Folly
Wherein I briefly discuss the notion of folly and share a video of Lewis Pugh’s swim across the North Pole.