I adore Amy Daczyczyn's The Tightwad Gazette. Don't you?


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Hey all! For those of you interested in reading my much-more-specific blog, I registered an actual domain name for it and you can find what I put there by connecting to:

http://www.huntgathermedicine.com/Feel free to link to it on your own pages, or forward the address around ( Read more... )

I have seriously neglected this blog for the past three months, something of a record. Kind of a shame, too, since I was going strong. Anyway, I will come back here and write more in the coming months, that's a promise. Too much kookiness going on in the world not to have a comment ( Read more... )

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(the title of this entry is heavily sarcasticated)

I sincerely hope everybody picked up the flap about medicine to prevent lesbian babies, yes? It has all the necessary elements of a beautiful internet horror show- dishonest doctors experimenting on pregnant women, babies with ambiguous gender, and a medical plot to enforce stepford wives... pure ( Read more... )

This will be of especial interest to eatthosediapers and katuah, I think.

Wired magazine just published an analysis of AA, how it works (or doesn't work), where it came from, and what we know about the neuroscience involved. Surprise! Once again, surrendering individualism to larger social norms seems to be healthy, work against addictive tendencies, and actually ( Read more... )

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Forgive any weird bubbling on this journal, I'm getting an entry blocked...

The other day, while running, I heard something snap and my foot hurt. A lot. I was wearing shoes- how often am I ever wearing shoes?- and I don't know exactly what it was I stepped on, or whether it was my foot or the unknown object that made the noise, but it felt like a ridge, more or less parallel with my foot, that hit around my second and ( Read more... )

In November of 2007, I wrote an entry making a number of predictions about the future. I periodically see it archived and linked on the internet as a "realistic" alternative to some of the doomsaying that was popular at the time, and since several of my claims were testable, I'm interested in revisiting them to see how realistic they ultimately ( Read more... )