Richard Dawkins reads his mail:
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The Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta is an extraordinary place. It was designed to be sort of mosque-like, but also like the palace of a sheik. It’s huge, and has lots of rooms and corridors and everything is decorated.
Because my friend Amy is the assistant production manager there, I was allowed to do something that [...]
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Today I read an article in the Wilson’s Quarterly about modern-day slavery. The author, John Miller, calls for action: First for laws and enforcement of those laws, and second, for education.
Two examples of education:
1. He spoke in Japan about the thousands of Japanese work visas given to Female filipino “entertainers.” Within a couple of [...]
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I’m talking about birds, of course. Avians. Feathers and such.
New research suggests pretty conclusively that some birds (magpies, in this case) understand that the image they see in the mirror is their own. Used to be, we thought that only mammals could do it.
Of course, every time we figure out that non-humans can do stuff, [...]
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A friend of mine recently said that Ellen Barkin used to be on his list of the hottest of hot women. To me, she’s not the slightest bit pretty.
This brought to mind a bit of a tangent: What does it mean to be average-looking?
I used to think it meant that on the bell curve [...]
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Crazy stonehenge-like clock. Found on Boing boing gadgets.
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The author of The Gulag Archipelago has died.
He spent seven years in the Gulag, for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a friend. There he began to write, and he never stopped. For a long time, practically everything he wrote was illegal; he and his courageous friends had to hide his work and smuggle it [...]
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In the interest of boring the crap out of most readers, I present to you: Slipping.
One of the problems of smooth concrete floors is that when they get wet, they become slippery. Think slightly melted ice over a lake of WD-40.
My 15-month-old daughter has a knack for finding the little spills and puddles (that she [...]
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So I looked up weeklyrob in Cuil. One of the interesting things about Cuil is that it can show pics next the results it finds.
Except for one small problem: The pics are often wrong. Look above, for example, to find a correct result for a weeklyrob post, but with a picture of… well…
Honestly, I don’t [...]
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The “Got Milk” ads are cute, and because milk is considered wholesome stuff, lots of big names are on-board to promote them.
But watch out, ’cause the “Got Milk” people are no less evil than any other major conglomeration.
In at least two cases of people printing “Got Breast milk?” on shirts, onesies, and such, the “Got [...]
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Nowhere do they say how to pronounce their stupid web site name, but it’s supposed to be the big Google-killer.
I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s nice to look at (once you’ve searched for something, that is. I don’t really dig the black screen), but so far it hasn’t actually found what I’m looking [...]
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