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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
1:24 am	pick a pun, any pun http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/13401/1 pick your favourite :) for me, 'D' stands head and shoulders above the rest - clean, simple pun, beautiful delivery. 'A' would probably be my runner-up. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
11:42 pm	seriously mad science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_belt#Removal (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
10:38 pm	all knowledge etc. so far i'm loving little_details. thanks to mofic for the pointer. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
4:03 am	still in 'catching up' mode just watched "dead poets society". what an amazing movie. you know how some movies, they finish, and then there's this period where you think "whoa, that was one of the best movies i've ever seen"? one of those. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
7:55 pm	bring back the children of the lens Finally got around to working my way through the Lensman series. Books 1 and 2 were okay, mostly scene-setting, which is not Doc Smith's forte. Book 3 (Galactic Patrol) was amazing, though - absolutely unputdownable, and one of the best pieces of space opera I've read in a good while. Well into book 4 now, and looking forward to the rest of the series (no spoilers!) (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
6:30 pm	accounting for taste Have I mentioned how much I love TasteSpotting? http://www.tastespotting.com (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 15th, 2009
8:25 pm	partly cloudy http://www.katasonov.com/2009/06/hilarious-short-movie-by-pixar/ [mirror] Very cute little pixar short. I love how they manage to be touching and cute and funny all at once. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
2:10 am	hero for today http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/11/cnnheroes.lidia.schaefer/index.html A manicurist sold her house and car to build a school in her native Ethiopia (Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
1:38 am	missing women http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/645832 The term "missing women" was coined in 1990, when Indian economist Amartya Sen calculated a shocking figure. In parts of Asia and Africa, he wrote in The New York Review of Books, 100 million women who should be alive are not, because of unequal access to medical care, food and social services. These are excess deaths: women "missing" above and beyond natural mortality rates, compared to their male counterparts. Women who are dead because their lives were undervalued. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
3:05 pm	my, that was a yummy^H^H^H^H^Hbeautiful slime mold! http://englishrussia.com/?p=2059 [link via mactavish] (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
2:20 am	depressing http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bank-america2-2009jun02,0,4121940.story The California Supreme Court unanimously overturned a billion-dollar class-action award against Bank of America Corp. on Monday, ruling that banks can collect overdraft fees from accounts in which government benefits intended for subsistence are directly deposited. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
1:43 am	pro-what again? "The country gained a killer, and the country lost a man" (Comment on this)
Monday, June 1st, 2009
2:44 am	happiness, european style going dutch [nyt, free reg required] what finland can teach america about true luxury [fixed the link] (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
3:54 am	women and children i've ranted about the phrase 'women and children' before, but never very cogently or at any length. this post says it all, and much better than i could. go read. [link via klwalton] (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
10:20 pm	what price dignity? With the amount of money I am to be paid, I can save over six thousand lives. I don't value my dignity that highly. -- Eleanor Roosevelt, on agreeing to do a margarine commercial Classy lady, that. [xposted to helpers] (2 Comments |Comment on this)
1:18 am	who hath desired the sea? i admit it, years of seeing what the unwashed masses have to say in feedback threads attached to things like newspaper articles and youtube videos have made me deeply sceptical about the quality of comments on any site not explicitly devoted to social networking or blogging. therefore, the moving, literate comments here were a very pleasant surprise. always nice to stumble across something like that by chance. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
2:02 am	speech of freedom everyone needs to go read this - a great letter from a freed slave to his former owner, when the latter suggested it would be to his advantage to return. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
10:05 pm	a hand up http://community.livejournal.com/helpers/58512.html (what do people think of my crossposting my helpers posts here? i figure they're of general interest to most of my flist too, but otoh a lot of you are subscribed there anyway) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
7:24 pm	hello, dreamwidth world not sure how much i'll be posting here (and what i do should be crossposted), but very glad to have gotten the username! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
11:41 pm	turntables of the night little-known pratchett short story (3 Comments |Comment on this)