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Birthday Beauty

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This is not the time to be writing a love letter.

Bluntly, I’ve got snot all over my face. It’s pouring both down my throat and out my nose, wherein it joins a non-stop stream of tears that have rendered this screen in front of me all but unreadable. [...]

Bush wants to chat. Do you accept?

Above: Madame Secretary tactfully avoids Kim’s gaze.

One interesting fact known by few around the blogosphere about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is that the feared tyrant is himself a skilled surfer of the World Wide Web.

That’s because he never told anybody until this week, when he informed R.O.K. President Moo-hyun during their “historic summit” [...]

Robotic Telecommunication

Telecommuting — the next generation. This is how I need to work from home.

Programmer Ivan Bowman spends his days at iAnywhere Solutions Inc. in much the same way his colleagues do. He writes code, exchanges notes in other developers’ offices, attends meetings and, on occasion, hangs out in the kitchen [...]

Home Urinal

The impossible dream - Los Angeles Times

The vast majority of my dreams are completely impossible: owning Mars, traveling to the future, writing a book. So when — thanks to the magical economics of failed television pilot writing — I got to buy a house, and that house needed a new bathroom, I was [...]

Multi-Acre Spider Web

This is just plain cool.

Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nighmare - New York Times

Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors. [...]

Why Reading is Good for You

It turns out that I don’t read too much. In reading, I’m strengthening my brain and preparing it for old age. So say researchers in the July 31 edition of Neurology. Mental Abilities: Good Readers Better Able to Retain Brain Skills - New York Times

It is not surprising that when doctors examined people [...]

Examples of Gratitude

Growing up, I always heard that I should have an “attitude of gratitude”. That phrase sounded annoyingly pat back then and still does now. That doesn’t make it any less true. Here are two examples of people with a great attitude of gratitude.

First, Chef Mojo from Daily Pundit wrote about experiencing life with new hearing [...]

The Ladies Home Journal Predicts the Future

The Ladies Home Journal predicts the future, in 1900. Our “now” was their nearly unimaginable future. Their vision of our present tells us more about them then it does about us, I’m afraid.

Some of the predictions are fairly prescient:

Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Farmers will own automobile hay-wagons, automobile truck-wagons, [...]

Health Food Update

Vitamin C doesn’t do much to fight colds, lycopene probably doesn’t prevent cancer, and eating a quarter of a grapefruit a day could kill you.

Kinda shakes up your world, doesn’t it?

Fried Chicken Pizza

Lately I’ve seen health food on the news more and more. It seems like every week another restaurant decides to drop trans fats from the menu. Mayor Bloomberg is forcing fast food joints in New York City to post nutritional information next to the menus. It’s getting harder and harder to find food that can [...]