Month: July 2007

my right knee hurts today

just now i found birdpoo in my hair. awesome.

A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, made this unusual find when she was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty recently. stromdotcom: Shark with webbed feet what do we do when the landsharks attack??? Technorati Tags: feet, landshark, shark, web, webbed, webbedfeet

ha ha ha ha ha: Even if a monkey could learn to write a play and describe the characters’ behavior, it could not reveal the characters’ minds and so build an ironic tragedy. Infinite monkey theorem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia my favorite allusion to this is in douglas adams’ The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the […]

for my take, see john crane’s post about this, and flickerbulb’s comments below.

hilarious: ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday. NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops. “Efforts to promote learning with laptops in […]

right now i am reading a book, it is called, “the curious incident of the hound in the night-time”. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” (Mark Haddon) it was recommended to me by my prof in design schoo, don nissen, who has Very Good Taste in almost everything. it is written from […]

…i am at home, by myself, getting ready to cook dinner while i work on freelance webdesign. i have beer, a steak to cook, a hot grill and some asparaguses (asparagi?) to throw on there, along with a potato soaked in olive oil in the oven, baking. it is a comfy 79 degrees f, and […]

okay, in a zoo, and by “created” i mean it in the sense that genesis means things were created: it was born. A rare pygmy hippopotamus,Choeropsis liberiensis, was born in a zoo near Paris on 5 June 2007. Named Aldo, this pygmy hippo is approximately the size of a human baby. He is one of […]

trogdog has been home since early monday morning, and things are going mostly smoothly. gromit has not yet learned his place entirely — trog seems reluctant to put him in it, but he’s clearly annoyed at all the mouth and crotch lickings he receives when he’s trying to poop or pee or walk or stand […]

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So how safe is your sushi? More and more, it’s safe to assume your fish is polluted. The data coming in from a smartly conceived project called “Got Mercury?” from the non-profit watchdog group Turtle Island Restoration Network indicates that high-end restaurants in major US markets are serving tainted fish. The group is running a […]

I choose to interpret this data as suggesting that while large changes in IQ may have practically significant effects on academic performance, a change in 3 IQ points certainly does not. This gets to my point. What makes me nuts about studies like this is that they confuse statistical significance with practical significance. Statistically, 3 […]