I'm going to be participating in the San Francisco AIDS walk next month, and am trying to raise $500 to go towards AIDS research, treatment and testing. I would greatly appreciate your support, in any amount! Even $5 or $10 will help me reach my goal. You can donate right online through my donations homepage.
Thanks so much, everyone!

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I was thinking the other day how great it is that some words describe both an object, and the thing that you do with that object. Like: wedge, pin, drink, fish and switch. What am I missing?

Also, peruse means the opposite of what you think it means.

Crusty old Benidict has officially given the nod to Darwinian evolution, with an archbishop saying that intelligent design is "poor theology and poor science." The church will now only discuss ID as a "cultural phenomenon."http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/

Valkyrie looks fascinating and that I want to see despite my inclination to boycott anything Tom Cruise lays hands on. But watch the trailer... does is shock anyone else that even when the protagonists are Germans and Nazis for chrissake, Hollywood won't give them the slightest hint of a German accent? It's attractively edgy to have a good guy with ( Read more... )

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

Remember that if you forfeit your right to vote today, you also forfeit your right to voice a single word of complaint over the next four years.

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We were the number 1 story on digg science this morning! (we've since been beaten out by life on Saturn, but we're still #2)
The comments are pretty dang hilarious. God bless you, Internet 2.0

Tonight's six o'clock news, ABC Channel 7.
Watch it, watch me.

(if anybody happens to have recording capabilities and wanted to tape it for me, it would be greatly appreciated!!)

Nothing has ever made me want to buy a kitchen product more than this: the best ad campaign ever conceived.