Thursday, October 27th, 2005
What speaks louder than words?
Via Boing Boing: an interview with President Bush's speechalist.
Entries from October 2005
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Wild Child
Via : http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2005-10-27/news/feature_print.html From dallasobserver.com Originally published by Dallas Observer 2005-10-27 Copyright 2005 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved. Wild Child For Quinn Eaker, a son of the radical “unschooling” movement, school's out forever By Glenna Whitley When Quinn Eaker dropped out of a Colleyville high school in the second month of his senior year, [...]
Friday, October 21st, 2005
Xombie
I've often wondered, given all the zombie movies out there, why few of them have explored what would happen if the zombies retained their intelligence and humanity. Therefore I was pleased to find Xombie, a cool little flash series about Dirge, an intelligent zombie, who rescues a little living girl named Zoe, and tries to [...]
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.
Check out his cover of Baby Got Back by Sir-Mix-A-Lot. More here. Also, check out: Nina Gordon's Straight Outta Compton. Max Raabe's Oops, I Did It Again
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Against the Wall
Randall Parker, in his futurepundit persona, finds an enormous number of fascinating science articles. As parapundit, he's virulently anti-immigration. Most of the time I resist the temptation to respond to his parapundit posts, but this time I couldn't resist: http://www.parapundit.com/archives/003053.html Randall, I've been reading your blog (via the Livejournal RSS feed) for over a year, [...]
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
The Manolo..is very much enjoying the Firefly series.
The Manolo he has not yet seen the movie Serenity, however he is very much enjoying the Firefly series.
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
Let those dopers be
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-legalize16oct16,0,4914395.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions Let those dopers be A former police chief wants to end a losing war by legalizing pot, coke, meth and other drugs By Norm Stamper, Norm Stamper is the former chief of the Seattle Police Department. He is the author of “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing” [...]
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801405_pf.html washingtonpost.com Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 9, 2005; A01 With a good night's rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or [...]
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Why Smart Women Don't Want Kids
I want to live in a world filled with smart, interesting people. Therefore, I have an interest in seeing that more smart, interesting kids are raised to adulthood. Unfortunately,a dismaying number of smart, interesting couples on my friend's list have no plans to have children. Of course, I agree with the logic of their position–the [...]
