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Soda bans and local government
Cambridge has referred the issue of serving size limits on sugary drinks to its Public Health Commission for study. This would parallel a similar rule in NYC which limits serving sizes (the Cambridge order linked to erroneously says "ban"; this has since been corrected elsewhere ( Read more... ) -
Politics in an alternate reality
The headline is "Greens challenged on poly marriage policy", followed by this lede:
The Coalition has challenged the Greens to clarify their position on multiple partner marriage, accusing the party of "trying to walk both sides of the street" so as not to lose the votes of the polyamorous community.
This is in the online version of The ( Read more... ) -
Please help resolve a really dumb question
Today's question is about what counts as a "nice round number". Don't ask me what that is supposed to mean -- that's what's in dispute in the first place. I am only asking about the number that came up in conversation, since testing this exhaustively would tax the attention span of most people.
First, answer the general question:
Poll Nice Round Numbers
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An exercise in finding common ground: Campaign Finance
[Note: I started writing this post long before a friend of a friend jokingly suggested "Positive TV", and I am finishing it long afterwards, but I think it is in the same spirit! Somebody took at least one relevant domain and is trying to do something with it, but I can't tell what the inspiration for it was, and I don't feel like checking for ( Read more... ) -
Linear B jewelry
Someone asked me tonight to explain the comment about about Linear B jewelry in this thread. I'm not sure I was at all coherent when explaining it in person, so I hunted down the actual source.
"Linear B jewelry" was a reference to this post of mine from many years ago. If you read my exchange with dilletante in the comments you will see that history has ( Read more... ) -
Porn in thirty words or less
kdsorceress runs a project every year in February that involves people writing porn in thirty words or less.
The summary, copied and pasted to intrigue you:
How does this work? You write porn. You make sure it's, at most, thirty words long. You post it in a comment to this post, or you e-mail it to me, or you drop it in my ask-box on tumblr, or whatever. ( Read more... ) -
Groundhog
So, as you no doubt read on Thursday, Punxsutawney Phil issued the following proclamation:
"As I look at the crowd on Gobbler's Knob
Many Shadows do I see
So six more weeks of winter it must be."
Huh.
Now, the historical record of groundhog predictions is full of strange little notes hinting that the doings of the people of Punxsutawney are ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The poll in my last post produced the results that I expected -- people mostly went with the third option -- but I don't know if that's a result of how I phrased the question.
faerieboots came up with an example that I think neatly encapsulates what I was looking for, and I wish I had had it before posting the poll: I was looking for the difference between ( Read more... ) -
Faith in People
I feel like a lot of people I know tend to have very little faith in People, or Humanity in general, but are pretty willing to give the benefit of the doubt to individual humans they meet. Maybe I'm wrong, and most of my friends are really the other way around? Or neither? I'm curious whether this is something I can get at in a poll, and have ( Read more... ) -
Anthopomorphizing Fruit
gee_tar and I found a soda machine offering us "Strawberry Passion Awareness". Yeah, yeah, this stuff has apparently been around since 1994, but neither of us had seen it before.
So, not only are the strawberries being passionate, but they want to make sure everyone knows about it?
So I ask whether, maybe, there is some group of people like furries, ( Read more... )