Usually a 3 or a 4 on scale of 1 to 4 where 1 was the best. That’s consistently what I got in the ‘Exercises good self discipline’ category of all my grade school report cards. While I regularly had everything else rated as a 1 or 2 – you know spelling, math, reading, gets [...]
Along the same lines as this story.
These myths below have been circulating in the gorilla community for years. It’s time to debunk them.
Myth: Humans are bloodthirsty and violent.
Fact: Humans are more interested in money and commercial success. While not inherently bloodthirsty or violent, humans will use those tactics to achieve money and success.
Myth: Male humans [...]
This excerpt from today’s WSJ Evening Wrap is just too funny/sad/odd:
They became a smash hit TV series in the U.S. in the 1980s, but their latest TV incarnation is getting a mixed response. With the blessing of Peyo’s [the Smurfs' creator] family, UNICEF has produced a 25-second advertisement in which the Smurf village is bombed [...]
From reading Juice this week, I saw an ad for this Sunday’s Des Moines Register story on the first ever poll of what Americans think of Iowa. This is not a poll of Iowans – it’s a poll of non-Iowans to ask for their opinion of our state.
Are we the only state that does this? [...]
Computerworld mentions a recent comScore study which shows that:
Blog visitors are 11% more likely than the average Internet user to have incomes of $75,000 or more and are 30% more likely to live in households headed by someone between the ages of 18 and 34, the study found.
During the first quarter, the average blog visitor [...]
While we were in Chicago this past weekend we visited a new chocolate shop called “Ethel’s Chocolate Lounge”. We went there with friends to pick up some dessert to bring back to their apartment. The shop is Starbucks combined with a candy store, except more expensive – 12 chocolates cost us $14. They have bon-bons [...]
From a post on Boing Boing, I came across and interesting phenomena relating to the bomb blasts in London today: real-time photo journalism. The combination of public photo sites with tagging photos has created a real-time set of images from London relating to the bomb blasts. Flickr has a number of tags which show photos [...]
Erin Crawford has nice article on people offended by reality-TV contestant Tana’s swearing.Fucking Iowans!
We had our garage sale yesterday and unloaded everything that we really wanted to get rid of.
Insulation left over from finishing the basement – gone, old carpet from the basement – gone, kitchen cart – gone, bookcase – gone, kids slide – gone.
I noticed a few differences from our last sale, which was in Washington, [...]
If you have 5 extra minutes today, read this article about a performance art piece ending today in downtown Washington, DC.
Then reflect:
Is it art?
Do you have “enough”?
There was lots of coverage of the NYT announcement yesterday of a report containing suggestions to improve credibility. But this story from Wired News is much more interesting, since it contains a detailed analysis of problems with sources.
These types of anaylses need to happen more often. And the news media shouldn’t wait until a problem [...]
State 29 has some generally good points about property taxes today. But this story is a little outrageous:
This past weekend I spoke with an old friend who has lived in the suburban San Francisco region for about 8 years. When he bought his brand-new, middle-class house in 1997, it cost $250,000 – an amount which [...]
While speculation and bias run rampant through both blogs and MSM when reporting about Iraq, I prefer to get information from people close to the ground. This is a great set of photos from various photographers visiting Iraq 2 years after the invasion. It requires Flash and has audio commentary from the photographers, worth listening [...]
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine [...]
The writing in this article is almost as good as the artwork behind the gates.
Now one no longer ambles through the park, but rather saunters below the flapping nylon. Paths have become like processionals, boulevards decked out as if with flags for a holiday. Everyone is suddenly a dignitary on parade.
The writing made me [...]
Christo’s ‘The Gates’opens today. Oh, I long to be in NYC today. Perhaps by some miracle, the grandparents will take our kids and we can visit NYC for a day.
The Obey Giant stuff has been around forever – but I just stumbled on to it and love it.
Fidgeting Fights Obesity, Researchers Say (washingtonpost.com)
Finally I can justify chewing on my fingers for the last 10 years. I think I’ll stop running because of this.
Looking at some of the Bloggies nominees, I realize that Blogging is quickly becoming big business.
While the rest of the world is blogging and I’m reading them all – maybe it’s time to write something.