[post futuredated for easy visibility] Originally Posted: 4/3/04

I'm instituting filters for certain types of posts, so I don't feel guilty about cluttering up my friends' pages with "random" information. As for other random information, you can find out about common post topics here, memory categories, and the tags sidebar at your right ( ( Read more... )

As springdew so aptly put it...

If I ever contribute to a misunderstanding, please let me know. I'd be pretty sorry, and I'd want to know what happened so I could prevent it happening in the future ( Read more... )

Lunar eclipse in 10 minutes! (North America)

Edit (10:40): Very cold outside. And cloudy. Not enough to obscure it all the time, just most. But it was pretty when visible. And there wasn't any rain/snow/sleet in the air or on the ground, unlike tomorrow's forecast.

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book
January 19, 2008 | Issue 44•03

Source

GREENWOOD, IN-Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there's more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book.

Yes, the whole thing. ( Read more... )

My Grown Up Christmas List

Do you remember me
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies

Well, I'm all grown up now
And still need help somehow
I'm not a child
But my heart still can dream

So here's my lifelong wish
My grown up christmas list
Not for myself
But for a world in need ( Read more... )

I Want a Hippopotamus for ChristmasWords and music by John Rox ( Read more... )

I now have approximately 1 terabyte of free hard drive space. *bounces* (Yes, this is glee-inducing! What? Why are you looking at me like that?)

If that only applied to the rest of this place... *looks around in bemusement*

Cellphones swamping 911 system
Robert J. Lopez and Rich Connell

LA Times

August 26, 2007Users are experiencing lost calls and lengthy waits. Officials say it's better to summon help on a land line ( Read more... )

Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age
Matthew Kirschenbaumhttp://chronicle.com/free/v53/i50/50b00801.htmRead more... )

For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU
Clive Thompson

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_humancomp

Wired 15.07; 06.25.07 | 2:00 AMWhich is prettier? A picture of a black cat sleeping on a pillow or one of a curly-haired brunette ( Read more... )