This time the vandalism fairy left a present in our trash can.

It was a white plastic bag.

Inside it was a box of Trix.

Inside that were angry bees.

Normal purrs are made by rapidly vibrating the muscles of its vocal cords, but a cat needs to deliberately push air past these muscles - a phenomenon called 'voicing' - to produce the higher-pitched component. This voiced acoustic feature is critical for a cat's food-acquiring antics, for McComb showed that the more intense it is, the more urgent ( Read more... )

I'm reading John Chalberg's biography of Emma Goldman, "American Individualist."

She was deported from America under the Anarchist Exclusion Act, eventually to return. In the meantime, Chalberg writes,Lecturing in Toronto in 1926, she ... wanted desperately to board a train for Detroit, if only to "help make America ridiculous again."
Emma Goldman ( Read more... )

From From People v. Marinaro (Minn. Ct. App.), via The Volokh ConspiracyThe Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits smoking in numerous indoor public places, including bars and restaurants. But the act makes an exception for actors and actresses while they are engaged in theatrical performances. Thomas Eugene Marinaro, the proprietor of Tank's Bar ( Read more... )

I'm gonna have to join this thing, aren't I.

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There's a feeling of secrets unlocking and everything being connected that I broadly associate with religious ecstasy, psychosis, LSD, etc. Math is simply a procedure for creating such experiences in such a way that they can

1. outlast the trip
2. be reliably communicated to others in specificity.

You know how there are bark collars for dogs ( Read more... )

I'm familiar with isbn.nu for finding used books, but I'm looking for a good solution for buying several at a time. Searching each one individually doesn't take into account any applicable savings in shipping from ordering from the same vendor. (I'll happily pay $1 extra for a book if it saves me $4 in shipping.)

DVD Price Search does this for ( Read more... )

Police say hate motivated attack on transgender person near Franklin High. Police only caught one of the assailants ( Read more... )

I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a piece on Found Magazine which mentioned they're doing a show at the Crocodile in Belltown tonight (Tuesday) at 8pm. It's a tour for their new book "Requiem for a Paper Bag."

If you don't know Found Magazine, you should:We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists ( Read more... )