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Neat demonstration of the importance of a movie's soundtrack, even if it usually goes unnoticed.

You know where ads appear on Facebook? This guy placed a personals ad there.

A mommy just called me. She said her daughter loved working with me so much and was so glad to have found me...that she cried with relief after our first session. Aww...

A story about the company Abby's working for.

I asked this (Jewish) guy what his middle name was.

He said it was the least Jewish middle name ever.

As I contemplated what that could possibly mean, he handed me his drivers license:

Bacon.

An interesting survey on how, if at all, Yiddish and Hebrew have become part of your English dialect. Consider taking it. FWIW, it's relatively short if you're not Jewish.

In trying to remember the phrase "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny," Rebekah and I turned up a page on Google saying, "The so-called basic law of biogenetics is wrong. No buts or ifs can mitigate this fact. It is not even a tiny bit correct or correct in a different form. It is totally wrong." We were deeply disconcerted to have been mis-taught in ( Read more... )

What are good places to go star-gazing in the Bay Area?

Joke of the day:

Q: Why did the white bear dissolve in water?
A: Because it was polar.