Perusing a catalog that came in the mail yesterday, I see that snowmen are “the thing” for this Christmas. I’m glad I’m not into having “the thing.” It does, however, remind me that if I’m going to make any new…
CIA: We could have stopped Bin Laden
We could have stopped him The CIA has taken much of the blame for the security lapses that led to 9/11 and the false intelligence on Iraq’s WMDs. But now one spy has broken ranks to point the finger at…
What?
“It is all about vigilance,” says Dave Wardell, vice president of Central Atlanta Progress. “It is like a beehive. If you let it grow, it grows and grows and festers.” Does this person have any clue as to what a…
Artificial Retinas
Is this not amazing? From Future Brief In the mid-1980s, neuroophthalmologist Joseph Rizzo III was researching retinal transplants to restore blind people’s vision. One day, removing a lab animal’s retina, a tissue-thin membrane that lines the back of the eyeball’s…
Aw, Shucks!
Spellcasting 101: Don’t Try This At Home I’m crushed about the Mount spell. I thought we’d finally found a way to afford horseback riding for the girl! (Thanks sleepingwolf!)
For Those With Kids (or Themselves!) Going Back to School
The Conscious Consumer and Back-to-School Shopping I realize the link is a bit late for many people, but it just came across one of my lists this morning. I have to say, one thing I do not miss is the…
No. Un-Uh. Not Gonna Do It.
I refuse to wear hippo sweat, no matter how good it is as a sunscreen.
So Why Did He Resign?
New Jersey Governor Reveals He’s Gay I mean, I can understand problems due to having an affair, period. But politicians have admitted to having affairs all the time, and most of them don’t resign unless there are minors involved. It…
Caution
Really, really, bad video But what does the page say? Since the domain is in Israel, I figure it’s probably Hebrew. I don’t have the appropriate fonts installed, even if I could read it.
Ewww!
(This is largely the same thing that I posted to nonfluffypagans earlier today. I’m not sure that some of you who would probably be interested read the community, though.) Someone forwarded Raven Grimassi’s A Call for Needfire to the Border…