Looking for good, fresh, seasonal produce that tastes as good as it looks? Want to support your local (small, organic) farm but don’t know where to find it? Do you know what a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is? Want to find a farmer’s market in your area? Better yet, want to [...]
Posted by Deb in Organics on May 26th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Today’s “Daily Mislead”:http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df05182004.html is a beautiful example of irony. A factory in Canton, Ohio touted in 2003 by Our Fair President as an example of how tax cuts for the rich will affect “the future of employment”:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030424-3.html has been “shut down”:http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2004/05/17/daily1.html by its owner, putting 1,300 people out of work. I’m sure it’s [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on May 18th, 2004 | Comments Off
The new Stephen Spielberg / Tom Hanks film “The Terminal”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/, as strange as it may seem, is based on “an actual person”:http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/airport.htm living at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough on May 17th, 2004 | 8 Comments »
From TrueMajority:
Last year, TrueMajority and a whole group of other organizations urged Congress to stop funding the nuclear “bunker buster” bomb. The budget was cut in half. Now the Bush administration is trying to get it funded again.
“Tell Congress the answer is still NO”:http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=176780&l=608.
The chairman of our Military Advisory Committee, Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on May 14th, 2004 | Comments Off
Ever wonder what happened to all those important news stories you should be hearing about on Fox?
Well, I found the (memory) hole down which they stuff all that info.
This site picks up the important news stories that were carried by maybe one outlet and then surreptiously dropped. It can load a little slowly — [...]
Posted by Deb in News/Media on May 12th, 2004 | Comments Off
Sorry. Having trouble coming up with a pun that fits the intersection of Darwinism and poetry. The authors of the site just call it Darwinian Poetry, and write, “The goal of this project is to see if non-negotiated collaboration can evolve interesting poetry using (un)natural selection.”
It’s very interesting!
Posted by Deana in Fun on May 10th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
I was wondering how long it would take to get realistic skin textures for digital characters. As it turns out, the breakthrough came from our very own UCSD! Now we know why Gollum was so spookily real.
Posted by Chris in Technology on May 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Looks like the U.S. is second to none… when it comes to “wasteful health care”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1875-2004May4.html. I know, it’s not shocking that we pay twice as much as people anywhere else in the world, but it *is* shocking that we get the same or worse care overall. The trend carries through across America, too; cities [...]
Posted by Chris in Medicine on May 4th, 2004 | Comments Off
This site has moved to a new host. If you’re reading this, you’re on the new site. Welcome!
You may notice some oddness over the next few days as the Internet catches up with our slight change. Please bear with us!
Posted by Chris in Blog on May 4th, 2004 | Comments Off
Want your kids to have the fun of learning about dinosaurs without all that misleading, distracting evolutionary theory? Want to throw science out the window in favor of good old fundamentalist belief? Have I got the theme park for you! (It’s NY Times - it didn’t make me sign in, but sometimes NY Times does. [...]
Posted by Deana in Religion on May 4th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
