cops trying to find and rescue this 12-year-old without revealing her identity. Still, I can't help wondering if they couldn't have done another round where they photoshop out everything but her face, and simply identify her as "missing ( Read more... )

My boss chided me today for being sarcastic, which is kind of wonderful: at first I was annoyed with it, then I realized that for me to get annoyed at being corrected means that I'm feeling arrogant and self-centered ( Read more... )

Rainy today, and chillier (but still not cold except to veteran Floridians), which made my plans to cook chili today even better. Said chili came out very good indeed, even minus the corn and cocoa and bulgar, and plus a can of pintos and one of garbanzos and quite a lot of TVP and some red pepper seeds. But I've just swallowed a garbanzo bean ( Read more... )

By Thom Hartmann ( Read more... )

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1226827.htm

via the ever-excellent Neil Gaiman's journal

Paste whatever is currently in your clipboard. No cheating! God hates a cheater.

Here is mine:
http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fameerhossein.blogspot.com%2F

Now show me yours.

A microchip being developed to act as a hippocampus, storing memories: http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1 This is in the early stages, with tests on rats expected in a few years and tests on monkeys ( Read more... )

whee!

no, really.

and, if you don't have a monkey handy, totals can be altered with a six-line program written in notepad (that most basic text editing program pre-installed on all windows boxes).

Yeah, this builds confidence.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133214,00.html

" Huh, there's a category 4 hurricane on; now seems like a good time to drive my semi across a long bridge."

Really now. And then there's the eight-year-old who died in a mobile home because her *parents* were acting stupid.