Month: October 2006
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Fun Stuff
Bananas vs. catsWeatherman vs. cockroachVery well designed animated mapInfo-visualization winnersSearch Google via cell phone text messagesSam Brown’s elegy for his late PowerBookFourty minutes with Richard FeynmanTranslate anything into “pirate speak”Great anime mashup movieChild drummer prodigyAmazing papercraftUnusual cloudsMargaret Thatcher like you’ve never seen her beforeBizarre project: screen captures of CNN, Fox, etc. reportersUrinal sculpturesDownloadable classical music…
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Strange times
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.Sir Arthur Eddington
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Things you didn’t know you didn’t know
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.A snail can sleep for three years.All polar bears are left handed.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.Babies are born without knee caps. They…
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Television
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx
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A woman’s random thoughts
If you love something, set it free…If it comes back, it will always be yours…If it doesn’t come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn’t appear to realize that you…
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El Ascencion
My friend Duane McDowell, who frequently sends things for my blog was just in Venezuela on vacation and took the following picture of a Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata) hummingbird in the garden of Posada La Brevera in Chorotal, Merida that he was particuarly happy with. Hope you enjoy it too.
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Ten questions for James Baker
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:04:13 -0500From: “Jonathan Lord” <jdl@ieee.org>To: letters@time.comSubject: Ten questions for James BakerDear Editor:Talk about arrogant; since when does one particular party, “own all three branches of government”? It seems to me that the American people “own” the government. An ideology can influence the policies of the government, but I don’t recognize…