February 2010
30 posts
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This is what I think about when I'm bored at work...
Cyanide is a chemical compound that is so named because it’s used in blue dyes like Prussian blue.
Cyanosis is a medical term for a blue coloration around the extremities or lips deriving from a lack of oxygen.
Both words derive from the Greek kyanous meaning “blue”
Cyanide is also a poison that binds to hemoglobin in the blood, preventing oxygen from binding and...
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Three tunnels?
I have to admit, the cats digging three separate tunnels was industrious, but they really should have spent some more time on the rest of the plan. German army outfits don’t help you blend in these days, and their fake passports are awfully clangy and jammy.
My cats have been digging more than usual lately
I wouldn’t be too worried, but I keep hearing them purring the march from The Great Escape. Weird.
Joel Johnson - Why I'm Funny →
Depressing and fascinating.
50 States Ordered by Penis Size
Alright, I’m a nerd, but I think this data would be fascinating to analyze statistically. A simple rank-ordering like this doesn’t actually tell you very much (hell, the difference between the top and bottom could be as little as a few tenths of an inch, and I would bet that for any two states next to each other there’s not a statistically significant difference in mean length...
Gene Lamont runs over Jim Leyland's foot with golf... →
sloganeerist:
You guys, baseball is here!
Oh, man, running over Jim Leyland’s foot is a bad idea. He’ll probably use Lamont as his personal ashtray for at least the remainder of spring training.
Just a selection
reagan is the red dragon
reagan is sane
http://www.googlism.com/who_is/r/reagan/
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The Mountain Goats - Sept 15, 1983
Servants of...
The Mountain Goats - Your Belgian Things
A...
Re: Kafka’s love letters
Rhett Miller -...
“There’s no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
You can’t take the sky from...”
– (via redcloud)
Why did no one tell me Adam Baldwin from Chuck was Jayne? I just bought the series today and was floored by that.
Tux Life: The Richard Cory Problem →
This guy, Joe Stack, who crashed his plane into a building in Austin because he apparently had a beef with the IRS. The guy who has been called disturbed, kamikazee, terrorist, wingnut, patriot, coward, and many more. He left a seven-page “manifesto.” He burned down his house. Yet friends and…
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For everyone kvetching about Google Buzz, a few...
indefensible:
oledocweirdbeard:
1. Doctors generally do not use standard email, but instead use the email of the hospital or medical practice they are associated with. Also, doctors and patients still communicate primarily face-to-face and via phone.
2. Someone trying to get out of a bad relationship who is foolish enough not to create a separate, private, sequestered email account for that...
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“[T]he Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” (C.S. Lewis)
I’m sitting at my desk, like I always am, reading something on the internet, like I always am. And I see myself twelve years ago, sitting at my desk reading something on the internet, stepping outside for a cigarette like I’m just about to now.
And when I step onto the patio it reminds me of a...
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On Watchmen 2
yhf:
penllawen:
Empire Online:
The word is that, despite DC’s very public falling out with the irascible Moore, head honcho Paul Levitz was always adamant that Watchmen, at least in print form, was not to be messed with. But with Levitz stepping down, Watchmen is now without in-house defenders…
Apparently an expanded Watchmen universe is now the pet project of DC’s senior vice...
Is this the greatest voice speaking on behalf of...
(I’m going to cut down a whole lot, go read TJ’s original post for the context
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And yet another observer misses the obvious point that the Tebow’s story is the “poster child” (so to speak) of pro-choice, assuming that your definition of “pro-choice” includes “can choose to keep a difficult pregnancy”
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I tend to find find this but particularly ironic in...
You know you have a problem
if, when you find yourself at the bottom of a depp hole you’ve dug for yourself your first response is “Better keep digging! How else am I going to get out of here?”
Engadget Turns Off Comments
bananacasts:
tj:
Most major tech sites would be a lot better off with comments disabled.
Most major tech sites would be a lot better off not existing. So much waste.
(Click through for more. Oh, and Apple is always wrong.)
Why can’t I click through! I want to express my uninformed opinion! And see more ads! They roxorz
