Entries from November 2007

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Want to campaign for Paul in Iowa?

Ron Paul is looking for students who would like to spend 9-10 days campaigning in Iowa for him. The campaign will provide food, lodging, gas, and of course campaign materials… http://community.livejournal.com/ronpaul2008/212106.html?style=mine#cutid1

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Treasurer needed for Ron Paul blimp

$383,500.00 has been pledged to the Ron Paul Blimp project so far. So if everyone who pledged follows through, there is enough to rent the blimp for a month. Any extra money raised will likely go toward keeping the blimp in the air even longer. The organizers are currently setting up a legal vehicle to [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Men have biological clocks too — age of fathers related to brain disorders

Via radiantsun http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/index.php?term=pto-20070830-000004&page=1 Studies worldwide have found that with each passing decade of their lives and with each insult they inflict on their bodies, men’s fertility decreases, while genetic risk to offspring slowly mounts. The range of findings is staggering: Several studies have shown that the older the man, the more fragmented the DNA in [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

My kind of porn

Yes, I know it’s staged and little ridiculous. I don’t care. NSFW, of course.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

But first, a corndog

For lightling:

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Thoughts on buying a Smart car?

So, I’m thinking about buying a Smart car. I like the cars because they get good gas mileage (40+ mpg), they’ve been on sale in Europe for over a decade (so many of the bugs have been worked out), and they’re tiny. I mean, really tiny. A Smart car (106 in) is over 3 ft [...]

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Steampunk

Via shanmonster

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Ron Paul campaign seizes air superiority

As long time readers of my blog know, I have a fetish healthy fascination for airships. And, as is apparent by my frequent pimping, I’m a fanatic supporter of the Ron Paul presidential campaign. Thus, you can imagine how happy I am by the most recent brainchild of Trevor Lyman: Lyman, as some of you [...]

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

GEEK: Notes on rubygem, pdb.set_trace()

If you want to use a newly installed rubygems, and you don’t want to require ‘rubygems’ for every program that uses a gem, you need to set the RUBYOPT environment variable. For example, if you’re using tcsh, you should put the following in your .tcshrc file: setenv RUBYOPT rubygems This will cause the rubygems module [...]

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock

Via evillinn: http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2217067,00.html ‘Cultural guerrillas’ cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon Emilie Boyer King in Paris Monday November 26, 2007 The Guardian It is one of Paris’s most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries. But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, [...]