It may sound obvious to anyone who knows me, but “hazardous, tricky clean-up of nuclear sites”:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996199 is for me the single compelling reason to avoid nuclear power as a major energy source. I don’t worry nearly so much about Chernobyl-style accidents as I do about subtle, continuous contamination of an ecosystem due to nuclear [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on July 26th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Help me here.
It is an odd thing to have one of your favorite mythical worlds spun in an unpleasant way. I came across a mind-twisting article on Harry Potter, the capitalist pig. Nevermind that J.K. Rowling is richer than God now; the fantastical world she created was a lift to my spirit every time I [...]
Posted by Steve in Literature on July 24th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Apparently “chimps are subject to contagious yawning”:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996182 just like humans.
_The team played videos of chimps either yawning or exhibiting other open-mouth behaviours such as grinning to six adult chimps and three infants at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan._
_…They argue that their figure of 33 per cent of adults showing contagious yawning [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on July 21st, 2004 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know how many times I wish I had a tripod along, even for my pocket-sized camera. Now that won’t be a problem, because I can carry a “home-made bottle-cap tripod”:http://www.fiendishthingy.org/tripod/ and pop it on a handy water bottle.
To the Ace Hardware, Robin!
Posted by Chris in Fun on July 21st, 2004 | Comments Off
I ordered my copy of “Outfoxed”:http://www.outfoxed.org today, and it’s left me feeling ornery. Here are some political quickies:
* “The bin Laden vote”:http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393
* “Something to make us ill with shame”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/20/evidence_for_hershs_.html
* “Refreshing humor”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/18/daily_show_on_possib.html
* “The facts behind the film”:http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/
* “A little something to chew on”:http://www.brothercanyouspareajob.com/
Posted by Chris in Politics on July 20th, 2004 | Comments Off
I randomly came upon a site called Cate’s Garage Sale Finds: “‘Teenagers’ from 1954: Grooming and Body Issues”. I haven’t explored the rest of the garage sale finds, but this page offers grooming tips AND early work by Mr. Luke Perry!
Posted by Deana in Beauty and Fashion on July 14th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
WARNING: rant alert! Read on if you don’t mind me ranting about idiots.
Posted by Chris in Politics on July 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Cassini has just gone through a “gap” in the rings of Saturn where it still managed to be pelted with microscopic particles for a while. The neat part is that they made a sound recording of it all with a QT movie that I think is a simulation. Ah, the pebble-y sound of space [...]
Posted by Deana in Space on July 13th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
“This video”:http://www.homestarrunner.com/expfilm.html is so cool I don’t even have words to describe it. You’ll just have to see for yourself.
Go on. You can do it.
Posted by Chris in Music on July 13th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
If this blog entry on “prisoner abuse in the name of Anti-Terrorism”:http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/07/failures_of_ima.html doesn’t make you feel like you’ve been kicked in the stomach, then you’re made of stronger stuff than I.
Posted by Chris in Law on July 12th, 2004 | Comments Off
