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September 26, 2007

Treehouses! Because your house isn't awesome enough. more inside
Trey Parker & Matt Stone animate the teaching of Alan Watts.
How to iron a shirt. That's it, really. It's taken me this long to learn how to do it. I've been called "master of the rumpled look," I've heard "Dave, meet an iron." Now, thanks to the internets I can finally fit in in cube land.

September 25, 2007

Great Big Holes
Orangutan Disrobes Tourist
For Sale! Secret Underground Lair - One careful owner, and one perhaps slightly less careful one. more inside
Glenn Gould 75/25. Happy Would-Be 75th Birthday to Glenn Gould, genius pianist, filosophe, and all-round nut. more inside
LOL MICROSOFT Serious bug found in Excel 2007. Try multiplying 850 by 77.1 - the answer should be 65535. Do it in Excel 2007 and it's 100000. D'OH! Holy Crap! & LULZ to follow.
Hillary Clinton's religion and politics. The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan. more inside
O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

September 24, 2007

Stupid Monsters 30 years of Dungeons and Dragons more inside
The practical nomad. Thoughts on and advice about travel, from Edward Hasbrouck, "The Practical Nomad." I particularly enjoy the "Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Travel" section.

September 23, 2007

Marcel Marceau dies at 84 A moment of raucous mourning, s'il vous plait.
Goats On A Roof - At Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant, the roof is covered with grass. All summer long the goats have a ball up there grazing away. This also occurs at the Old Country Market, Coombs, Vancouver Island. more inside
Create smaller CSS files This article will tell you how to make your CSS files a bit smaller.
'Treasure Trove' of Homo Erectus found. This is a mass of the oldest human skeletal bones found outside Africa, they will help improve understanding of the biology of the 1.8-million-year-old hominids. Described are three-dozen fossils from four individuals found at Dmanisi in Georgia, central Asia.

September 22, 2007

Mandela is (not really) dead (YouTube)
Rice to riches "I don't sleep; I'm up all night." Peter Moceo was a culinary man of mystery. He cared about rice pudding. Well, lots of people do! But Moceo had to fear being caught by this fella for sundry felonies.
Another reason why Cats are awesome: they kill and eat Scorpions. Yum Yum.

September 21, 2007

Avocado! Not until 1871...was the avocado definitely established [in California], through the introduction of three trees by Judge R. B. Ord of Santa Barbara. Two of these three trees bore fruit for many years in Santa Barbara, and served to create interest in further plantings. Avocado! In one year, a single California avocado tree can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven 26,000 miles. Avocado! The avocado probably originated in southern Mexico but was cultivated from the Rio Grande to central Peru before the arrival of Europeans. more inside
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