Today I was reading through the Rude Pundit's blogentry on a new law in Arizona that deals with whether immigrants can be asked to show that they're legal:

"No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may adopt a policy that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws ( Read more... )

Today I read jwz's post linking to an article that claims "Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now."

That reminded me of a question I've had for a while: "How many people have every lived on Earth", so I finally googled it. Of course, first you have to define "what is a human", so I put the marker at ( Read more... )

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I found the source of that funky dryer smell that's been plaguing us for a while now. Watch and phear:

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Eight days ago:


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I saw someone use a pay phone today!

From the NYT:

"President Obama will this week sign into law a provision allowing visitors to national parks and refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons."
 It seems that this provision is added to the "Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act" ("the Credit CARD Act", yes someone spent waaay to much time on this title). So ( Read more... )

Just signed up for Pandora Internet Radio. I've never seen my favorite music explained and disected this well!  Please keep bringing me "trance roots" with "laid back female vocals" please! I'm excited, and I need to read up on the Music Genome Project some more.


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