…is online here, and it’s very funny. Wish I could have been there! (Thanks to Derryl Murphy for pointing this out.)
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I confess, I’m tempted…
…to get one of these: a cell phone that looks just like a Star Trek communicator. (Via A Writer’s Life.)
Running to the light
Running to the Light Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. My daughter Alice, balloons, sunlight streaming across Wascana Park just after a rainshower…how could you not take a photo?
I like old buildings…
Architecture Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. …like the Conservatory of Performing Arts and Music just across the street from us here in Regina. Tonight the sun emerged briefly just around sunset to light it up most dramatically.
Ignorance to the left of me, stupidity to the right…I’m stuck in the middle with you
Author Mark Helprin, quoted in the Washington Post: “The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.’” …
A nasal spray to treat Alzheimer’s?
This is intriguing: a new nasal vaccine that clears neuron-destroying beta amyloid plaques from the brains of affected mice will be tested in humans in 2006. Keep your fingers crossed…
Scientists and God
A new study reveals that a majority of scientists believe in God. That holds true across all disciplines, although scientists in the social sciences are more likely to believe in God than those in the natural sciences. For example, around 41 percent of biologists don’t believe in God, but only 27 percent of political scientists …
Regender your favorite site
This is cool. Regender.com takes any Web site you want to run through it and changes the sexes around–replacing names it recognizes as masculine with feminine ones, and vice versa, changing pronouns, etc. Does it make a difference? Depends on the site. It sure makes you think, though! My own site, once regendered, identifies me …
If you don’t stop that, you’ll go blind…at least temporarily
People shown erotic or gory images have trouble processing what they see immediately afterwards, according to a new study.
A great quote (and a great quote within the great quote)
From About Last Night, the blog of Terry Teachout, drama critic for the Wall Street Journal (among other things): More and more I question the ultimate value of any criticism whose immediate purpose is not to bring its readers into direct contact with beauty (or shorten the amount of time they spend in contact with …
Fly me to the moon…
…for a cool $100 million.
Remote-controlled humans
No, seriously.
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