And so it was predicted in the Book of All Things that the world shall see something new, a thing it may have imagined but was loath to request. Thus the prophet wrote:
Lo it shall be seen in the shortest month, the hairiest month. And all shall tremble in its admittedly-tiny wake. And have a [...]
Posted by Chris in International Mustache Month on January 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
If you’re browsing the site on an iPhone (insert pretentious comments here), you might notice our new look tailored for that device’s web-browsing experience. (See example screenshot at left.) This is all thanks to the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme, which makes it incredibly simple to add an iPhone-specific theme to the site. And boy [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog, Web 2.0 on January 25th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let it be known that I, Chris Radcliff, will refrain from shaving my beard for the entire month of February 2008. Why, you may ask? For the challenge:
The idea is simple: grow your beard throughout February, then shave back to a glorious mustache for a gala beer party at the end of the month.
On this [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, International Mustache Month, Oddly Enough on January 23rd, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I haven’t looked at details yet, but Virgin Galactic showed off models of their new spacecraft today according to a New York Times article:
Mr. Rutan, the creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on January 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How can you not love this?
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Posted by Chris in Fun, Oddly Enough, Technology on January 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A recent long-term study published in the journal Developmental Psychology gives weight to the idea that although sexual orientation is somewhat fluid, bisexuality isn’t just a transition between orientations.
The study of 79 non-heterosexual women over 10 years found that bisexual women maintained a stable pattern of attraction to both sexes. In addition, the research [...]
Posted by Chris in Sexuality on January 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is great news: a recent study showed a remarkable improvement in Alzheimer’s patients given a drug designed to treat immune-related disorders. In one case, the patient’s symptoms were reversed quickly:
The new study documents a dramatic and unprecedented therapeutic effect in an Alzheimer’s patient: improvement within minutes following delivery of perispinal etanercept, which is etanercept [...]
Posted by Chris in Medicine, News, Science on January 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m giving this News Roundup category another try. As I mentioned before: “Each post is a list of timely articles with excerpts but little or no commentary, perhaps updated over the course of the day.”
People power to warm new building in Stockholm (PhysOrg)
The body heat from hundreds of thousands of people who pass through the [...]
Posted by Chris in News Roundup on January 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
