Anyone with a passing interest in love, relationships, biochemistry or drug addiction -- or all four -- will likely get some interesting info from this article:

http://www.esquire.com/features/mri-of-love-0609

[As seen on slashdot.org]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124093451028864031.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Assuming Franken is seated in Minn in a few weeks, as is widely expected, Spectre provides the 60 votes needed to block fillibuster.

My sister got a laser pointer for Frez and I to play with the cats. The package has "Exceeds FDA Standards!" written on it. Why does the Food and Drug Administration have standards for laser pointers?

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state

All the projects included in the federal stimulus package, broken down by state, then city, then individual project, and you can vote the projects up or down in levels of importance.

About this time of year the big paper yellowbook gets delivered to our doorstep. And we put it directly in the recycling bin. For anyone with an Internet connection, it is a complete waste of paper -- a reference document that starts being inaccurate as soon as it is printed ( Read more... )

A friend of mine, tsarina, would really like to win the LJ Idol competition. It's in its final round. Read her entry for "best LJ post," maybe skim a couple others, and if you like it, please consider voting for her. Or just help her win by taking a moment to click the checkbox beside her name and click "Submit". :-) Leave a comment

Those of you who twitter should be aware of this and take appropriate action to change your Twitter login passwords if they may be compromised:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/twitter_phishing

In MSVC++, I single step a line of code. This line of code is a function call that calls into hundreds of subroutines, and eventually returns a result. Now I do "Set Next Statement" and re-run the same line of code and I get a different result. The results should have been the same ( Read more... )

Thanks to my father for pointing this out...

A musical performance, heavy with star power:
California's Proposition 8 -- The Musical

"Can't clone, sheep will eat me."