“Beautifully simple, intuitive user experience,” as Google says, or just plain creepy?
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Friday links
Thomas Edison’s To Do List From 1888.
Video: Excellent Rube Goldberg machine.
The Science of Sword-Swallowing.
eBay item du jour: Moby Dick typed on toilet paper.
Gallery: Insect photography.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
German solar subsidies top 100 billion euro mark
Solar Subsidy Sinkhole - Re-Evaluating Germany's Blind Faith in the Sun.
via Steven Hayward at Enterprise blog.
via Steven Hayward at Enterprise blog.
@NRO Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone
Obamacare is under siege at this point. It is on shaky ground legally. It’s opposed by a plurality of voters. And there’s no real plan in view for actually implementing it, even if it were to survive the various challenges coming its way.
When men go to war, blame their sex drive
Well, duh. Study proves the blindingly obvious. To women, anyway.
From football thugs clashing on the terraces to soldiers killing each other on the front line, most conflict can be blamed on the male sex drive, a study suggests.
The review of psychological research concludes that men evolved to be aggressive towards ‘outsiders’, a tendency at the root of inter-tribal violence.
It emerged through natural selection as a result of competition for mates, territory and status.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Spengler: Failed treasury auction portends Egyptian disaster
Investors bought less an a third of the 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds (US$580 million) worth of Treasury bills offered to the market on January 22, a red flag warning that Egypt's foreign exchange position is close to the brink.
Yields on Egyptian government debt maturing in nine months jumped to nearly 16%, but the government could not place its local-currency debt to Egyptian investors, even at that exorbitant rate.
Yields on Egyptian government debt maturing in nine months jumped to nearly 16%, but the government could not place its local-currency debt to Egyptian investors, even at that exorbitant rate.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Dry Humping An Adequate Sex Alternative For Teens
Says Weird, Unsolicited Report From Department Of Interior.
Thursday links
What's the best animal to slice open and crawl inside to stay warm?
Couple caught trying to blow up car with flaming tampons. And yes, that would be an excellent name for a rock band.
Employees at 1 Paris Hospital Are Owed 2 Million Vacation Days
Exemplifying a problem created by France's generous vacation and overtime rules the employees of the Hopital Vaugirard in Paris have accumulated 2 million days off. French workers get comped vacation time added to their base five weeks of annual leave if they work longer than the mandated 35-hour work week.
Buffy turns 30 today
Considering how bad her birthdays always, maybe not a cause for celebration. Apparently she's pregnant, in the most recent comic issue.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Fear of Friday the 13th: paraskavedekatriaphobia
Or, in Pig Latin, araskavedekatriaphobiapay.
Superstition, bigotry, and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life: they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Pt. 2, Bk.7, Ch. 3
~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Pt. 2, Bk.7, Ch. 3
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thursday links
Ignore this one if you're not a geek: Why is the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons a big deal?
Gallery: close-up photos of insect eyes.
Like father, like offspring? A musical-taste infographic.
12 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2012.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic
Case report from 1960. A Soviet physician, the only medical personnel at an Antarctic base, removed his own appendix.
Via Paul at GeekPress, who notes, "This really takes a lot of guts."