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January 16, 2007
Historians in future will be heartbroken as they won't find paper letters to recreate history. Apparently, everyone is going all emaily on them. No Instant messages, no blogs are mentioned in the essay. What?!! We are not making history with our blogs! D'oh!
January 16, 2007
A million dollars has been donated! Ain't this cool! Send some money the Wikipedia way.
January 15, 2007
"He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his own descent."
That's a quite hilarious…
January 13, 2007
If you are a UK resident, I urge you to consider not dealing with ebuyer.com. Their website did not allow registrations to happen on Firefox (you can login with firefox after registering. I registered using Internet Explorer to give them a try. I should have known). They send you the wrong product…
January 12, 2007
On YouTube. There are six parts.
January 11, 2007
When I was young, I used to wonder why my father insisted on watching news channels on TV all the time instead of the wonderful sexless cartoon characters. I don't wonder anymore. I've started doing it myself now. The joys of gettin old.
News that caught my distracted eyes (I've been distracted by…
January 10, 2007
Check this out. Apostle of Hustle's "My Sword Hands Anger". Dark and delicious. (Use good speakers to appreciate the song properly. Laptop speakers may make the music suck.)
January 9, 2007
Sex helps with public speaking says a BBC report that talks about the research findings of Mr Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley. Apparently, harmless masturbating won't do. You have to really do it by having intercourse. Nature is a tough taskmaster - not that I am…
January 7, 2007
Yes. It's that plant that flowers every twelve years. Grows in the south of my beloved country. Once it flowers - after twelve years - what do you think it would do? Die. That's what. We are already killing it and now it has given up. Sukumar has a story for you.
January 4, 2007
A girl in India watches the hanging of Saddam. She obsesses over it. Two days later her brother chides her for not studying. She locks herself up in her room and hangs herself. The Saddam connection is alleged as having been the influence. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Whatever it is, it is unfortunate.…
January 3, 2007
Yesterday I was bothering the wife with some philosoapy (no, not a spelling error this. I can't say the word with a straight face) about existence, perception, spinoza's god and the like. Dear Mr Berkeley was at our side urging us to consider the irrefutable dictum of his that "to be is to perceive…
January 2, 2007
An excellent set of climate crisis resources to get started.
December 30, 2006
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December 29, 2006
Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who ask what happened. -From a book on Entrepreneurship.
Going out to make coffee happen for me now. Have a good weekend and try to stay sane the coming year.
December 29, 2006
We've evolved with a craving for sugar because as hungry and starved hunters and gathereres it helped us gobble food sources rich in energy whenever they were available (which wasn't often). I like icecream - particularly the ones with the edible cone, because I've evolved to like it. Now, for the…
December 29, 2006
Apparently Churches have lightning conductors in their towers.
Muhaha...
Source: Ascribed to Asimov in the footnotes of The Science of Discworld III
December 20, 2006
What has the world come to!"...when a bride was chosen for a prince ready to sow his oats, the search would begin for a princess from a family that had a long line of sons. That was of critical importance, and people had observed that sons of families with many sons tended to have more sons."
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December 19, 2006
I accidentally caught the program titled The Trouble With Atheism yesterday on Channel4. I was astonished to find the host Rod Liddle make so many factual errors, erraneous interpretations and misrepresentations. It felt like my brain was being fried constantly.
I am feeling very charitable today…
December 18, 2006
Lookie! Yours truly is amongst august company. Now, now, you would order a special subscription for Seed Magazine that has this fine portrait, wouldn't you (7 issues for 15 bucks. W00t!). While there, how can you resist a few gift subscriptions...
December 18, 2006
A reader posted a comment suggesting that I was fanaticaly irreligious. He said, "I am not sure why you have such a fanatic view against religion. It is man's interpretation of it that has caused religion to be a cause of conflict. The concept itself does not have any reason for the conflict."
and…
December 16, 2006
Darfur. Four hundred thousand and still counting.
Poverty. So many lives in the margins moving from one disaster to another.
Climate change. Our own death sentence. Or an opportunity for greatness.
Global conflicts. Religion, politics, greed and human callousness. The photo above may not be…
December 15, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Glis Glis of Amersham!"The Glis Glis is one of Britain's rarest introduced mammals living in the wild and resembles a small grey squirrel. For some reason it has established itself in the Chilterns (most densely around Chesham Bois) and nowhere else…
December 13, 2006
Wouldn't it be nice, you would think. But imagine the consequences. As a child, if you don't feel pain, you may eat your fingers. The beebs reports on families in Pakistan who have a genetic mutation that releives them of the sensation of pain."the Cambridge team found six people from the three…
December 13, 2006
Warning. Rant ahead. As Christmas approaches the advertisements on TV, radio, roadside banners, underarms and butts get more violent and desperate. I saw an ad for a big catalogue ordering company in the UK. It ends with a cheerful and very welcoming sales-counter girl servicing a very satisfied…
December 13, 2006
Smilack belongs to the group of one to four percent of people worldwide with synesthesia, the neurological mixing of the senses. No two synesthetes have exactly the same perceptual experiences. Many perceive each number, letter of the alphabet, or day of the week as a different color. For others,…
December 11, 2006
Took a Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test [via reddit.com]. I am a Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging (INTJ) type of personality it seems (that title you read was a bit of a creative excess. Sorry.) Vaguely feels like I've read the astrology column in a newspaper...
Whether these profiling…
December 8, 2006
Indian men have their work cut-out for them. And what's that you ask. It is this: To increase the penis size. Apparently, the international condom size is far too big for Indian men. What isn't apparent is that this gap in size may not be desirable for very valid medical reasons. Larger unfit…