I have two reactions to Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange from NewScientist.com Doh! I knew that! How do I get paid to do “research” like this? Isn’t that interesting? I’ll bet there are a lot of people who never thought of that. I am a bit fascinated that people actually study this stuff. […]
Gene hunters flock to Amish country
Gene hunters flock to Amish country, in the Globe and Mail, is a wonderful article about progress being made in genetic research. From the article: “We discover a new gene almost weekly,” he said…. Morton estimates that he’s uncovered about 150 genes implicated in various diseases, most of them found in the last few years. […]
Google Toolbar
Google just released a Firefox version of their Google Toolbar. This is a wonderful and free tool that can make your web browsing much easier. Installation is a snap and, if you don’t like it, you can simply uninstall. The platypus of the Internet, from the Google Blog, has some details about the development. Or […]
Hair
Ever wonder what makes a “bad hair day” or whether the shampoo and conditioner commercials are true or full of bunk? The Exploratorium has answers for you in Exploratorium Magazine: Hair
Wife Carrying
Wife Carry Contest? Yup… read this: Wife Carrying 🙂
Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand
Thanks to Slashdot for this story, Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand, about a 646 pound catfish that has been caught in Thailand. Here is the original story, at National Geographic. I wonder if the fisherman was noodling for it. 😛
PHP Filters
OWASP has a collection of PHP Filters (a/k/a functions) to sanitize user inputs. I have not used them but they sure look useful!
MIT Weblog Survey
If you use IM or email or blogs, take a few minutes and take the survey. This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically […]
Deserve a Driver’s License? Prove It!
According to the Post-Dispatch, getting a driver’s license in Missouri is getting a whole lot more difficult and time consuming. From the article: To renew Missouri drivers license Beginning Friday, customers at Missouri license offices must provide proof of citizenship, proof of identity and proof of residence. The fee for a regular drivers license is […]
Search gets personal
The Google blog contains this article, Search gets personal, about “remembering” what you searched for and clicked on and using those data to improve your search results. It’s very early but very interesting. Definitely worth a look. Click to check out Google Personalized Search.
Real Zombie Dogs
From News.com.au comes Boffins create zombie dogs about draining the blood from live dogs and replacing it with saline solution that is just above the freezing point. Three hours later, the saline was replaced with blood again with no ill effects. During the interrim, the dogs were clinically dead: no brain activity, no heartbeat, no […]
Google Video. Now with … hysterical samples
From my limited perspective, the most fun pieces of Google Video. Now with … video! from the Google Blog are the sample videos. You do need to install Google’s video player but it’s a small and easy installation. And, unlike the Windows and Real players, it just plays video… without taking over the rest of […]
Bride of the Fat White Vampire
For a fun, vampire guided romp through New Orleans, check out Andrew Fox’s Bride of the Fat White Vampire. I am certainly enjoying it.
What Makes a Man?
Even the advertising industry seems to be noticing that we men are human beings and not caricatures, as evidenced in this Reuters article, Male-targeted ads found to be in no man’s land. If you feel confused about what you should “be” as a man, you are not alone. The Leo Burnett advertising agency, which created […]
ManKind Project Changes Men’s Lives
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about The ManKind Project. Men say training has made them better men was written, in large part, from the experiences the reporter had while visiting my I Group (no pride here! 😉 ). [Ed. The P-D’s on-line version of the article has aged off their web site so […]
Spectacular Conjunction
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights, you will be able to see Saturn, Venus and Mercury practically on top of each other in the night sky. The show begins on Saturday evening, June 25th. Step outside and look west toward the glow of the setting sun. Venus appears first, a bright point of light not […]
Diamonds in the Rough: RSS Aggregators
Would you be interested if I told you that you could have your own, personalized newspaper, for free, cleanly organized, with up-to-the-minute information, and with sources from the local paper, the newswires, the web sites that you like, and people “in the know” who you trust? Get interested because you can have all this. The […]
Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000 years
From the San Francisco Chronicle: When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date palms towering up to 80 feet high and 7 miles wide covered the Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined the local […]
Garmin Quest GPS
For years, I poo pooed the fancy-dancy expensive GPS navigators appearing in people’s cars. I’ll admit it; I was wrong. I got a Garmin Quest GPS a couple of weeks ago and am simply amazed at how useful it is and how accurate the database is. It is obvious that the Quest has benefited from […]
Cats use fax as toilet, spark Japan house fire
This is just too bizarre to be fiction! I’ve got two cats and a dog. Thank goodness none of them has ever tried to “use” the laser printer. 😮
