Aside from "awesome", how would you describe this kind of music?

A study on the worst times to fart.
The top three: at a business meeting, on a date and in an elevator. But 78% said they have no problem letting one rip in the privacy of their homes.

Only 78% have no problem farting in the privacy of their own homes?  Does that mean that there's 22% of the population that isn't comfortable farting ever?

I have long harbored a mild, often only semi-conscious, dislike of pie charts. They're not as bad, in my opinion, as using a bar chart when a line chart is called for or vice versa. Still, this piece of affirmation is nice.

Normally I'm not a test junkie, but I found this test to be particuarly good. It asks only nine questions, and gauges the importance of equality, liberty, and stability to you. While it told me what I already knew about myself, namely that I value liberty and equality roughly equally--and both over stability, what's most interesting is that 82% of ( Read more... )

Skating Cowboys

I have realized that I have probably bought fewer than six CDs of music created after 2001, and two of those I bought only because they were put out by bands I had developed an attachment to early on, who had put out their best work in the 90s or earlier (R.E.M. and U2). What rock-ish music would people recommend if I'm going to buy six or eight ( Read more... )

The perfect gift.


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A valuable resource for us all.

entropicangel posts about how he took a quiz that said he was a humanist, and then talks about his development and his loss of Christian faith, but how he felt that "agnostic" was accurate but empty.  To his entry I wrote this response. ( Read more... )

My pronunciation of the word "towards" is not listed in answers.com's dictionary. How do you all say it? I say it as if the "o" weren't there, so starts like "twizzler" or "twerp". It ends like "fords" or "lords". Answers.com only lists the following three pronunciations (in SAMPA ( Read more... )