Mine was 2.53, falling into the category of "you are a liberal airhead."

http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

From that online F score test, this description:
Fifty years ago, the Authoritarian Personality studies attempted to "construct an instrument that would yield an estimate of ( Read more... )

The Washcloth ( Read more... )

On Distraction
Our minds need to go on a diet.
Spring 2010

One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach ( Read more... )

Goddamnit, I love this! New Lanois project, appearing at this year's Montreal Jazz Festival but sounding so fresh, so beautiful. And who in the hell is Trixie Whitley?! She's wonderful. And I think 22?!

Click to view

Click to view

If you have iTunes, you should listen to the May 16th 2010 edition of the audio podcast for CBS's 60 Minutes. Here's the iTunes link to that podcast -- just look for the May 16th episode on the Deepwater Horizon:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/60-minutes-full-audio/id81210923

More background with some transcripts are available here:

http:// ( Read more... )

I'm reading a book right now which is making me consider not eating meat more seriously than ever before. It's called Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and it's really, really well-written. Also extremely compelling and thought-provoking. I'd like to write at some length about the topic and this book once I'm finished, but this morning's ( Read more... )

wickenden, I wish they'd reached your place...


Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons - Watch more Funny Videos

Click to view

From Issue 3887 of the Nonduality Highlights, on this day edited by Mark Otter, comes a very interesting passage regarding a type of spiritual discourse in the Eastern and enlightenment traditions which tends to negate the idea of "enlightenment as a goal unto itself." I won't paraphrase the content of the excerpt, because the apparent paradox is ( Read more... )

The Canadian 2009 Juno Award winner for best electronic/house group was Deadmau5 (pronounced "deadmouse"), and I just have to give them a shout-out here because they've provided some very funky, bassy soundtracks to my workouts lately and I've been totally loving it. It's very techno, but heavy on the bass and several tracks have some really ( Read more... )