Entries from April 2005

Friday, April 29th, 2005

How to bathe with a quart of water

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDwellers/message/7404 Valerie writes: “…I would like to share my bathing method with you. Im not van-dwelling yet but camping in a tent in my yard at the moment honing my skills for the time I do get my van. Anyway here is a very efficient method of bathing, and it works great even though my [...]

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Vacation, Adventure, and Surgery

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/21/60minutes/main689998.shtml Vacation, Adventure And Surgery? April 24, 2005 Summertime. It's almost upon us. Millions will be heading out to foreign lands for vacation, adventure, tourism, or just a beautiful beach. But how about hip surgery or a multiple bypass or a facelift? A growing number of tourists are doing just that: combining holidays with health [...]

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Voodoo knife holder

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Oops, I did it again

This seems…wrong. Max Rebbe cover of “Oops, I did it again”. Via .

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

Seacode: offshore coding cruise ship

[I think this is a great idea. Coincidentally, I've been thinking recently about what it would take to start up a Medical Cruise line, a floating hospital/cruise ship that would be staffed by Indian doctors.] Via Mike Linksvayer http://www.sourcingmag.com/blog/blogdefault.aspx?view=plink&id=383> From Offshore to Ship-to-Shore 4/5/2005 11:18:00 PM Roger Green and David Cook seem like your run-of-the-mill [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

What am I passionate about?

What are you passionate about in life? Why? I was raised Mormon. Mormons are unusual among Christians in the that they think that in the afterlife, the righteous will grow to become gods themselves, and create worlds and spirit children of their own. “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.” [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

[LOCAL - Durham] Dan Klein to speak on "Bias in Academia"

Sorry for the short notice — I just saw this today: “The Duke Conservative Union will host Dr. Dan Klein of Santa Clara University at 5:15pm this Thursday, in the Breedlove Room. The topic of the discussion is “Bias in Academia.” Professor Klein has asked some 1,700 academics from six disciplines (anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Snore stopper

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/electric-shockbased-snore-stopper-039824.php “The Healthcare Snore Stopper presents a rather interesting, Pavlovian take on preventing snoring by emitting a gentle (“harmless”, they say) electrical signal when it detects your snoring. In theory, your body will learn to stop shocking itself over time in a form of aversion therapy and as a bonus, the device conveniently avoids waking [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Ray Kurzweil

Via Boing Boing http://asimovs.com/_issue_0506/thoughtexperiments.shtml Though Experiments: When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil by Cory Doctorow It’s not clear to me whether the Singularity is a technical belief system or a spiritual one. The Singularity–a notion that’s crept into a lot of skiffy, and whose most articulate [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

The Unregulated Offensive

[Maybe Bush will do some good after all.] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17CONSTITUTION.html? April 17, 2005 The Unregulated Offensive By JEFFREY ROSEN I. Justice Thomas's Other Controversy If you think back to Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991, what most likely comes to mind are the explosive allegations of sexual harassment made by the law professor Anita [...]