February 2008
21 posts
Drinking bottled water should be made as... →
shawnblog:
OK, who wants to join in on a group contribution tumblr on this topic? I have the domain waterscam.com and will dedicate it for this purpose. If you are interested in contributing, reblog this post. klksn: focsa: A bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car for a kilometre. Conservation groups and water providers have started a campaign against the £2...
God and Girls in Thailand →
Expanded excerpt from John Allen Paulos’s book Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up
The Dumbing Of America →
“People accustomed to hearing their president explain complicated policy choices by snapping ‘I’m the decider’ may find it almost impossible to imagine the pains that Franklin D. Roosevelt took, in the grim months after Pearl Harbor, to explain why U.S. armed forces were suffering one defeat after another in the Pacific. In February 1942, Roosevelt urged Americans to spread...
Learning to Lie →
Pretty interesting story on why kids lie. (It’s from New York Magazine, but you can just overlook that part.)
Our office chairs are slowly killing us →
Hoo boy. First Diet Coke, now office furniture. I think I’ll just stay in bed tomorrow.
A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid... →
So you all know that Polaroid is stopping production of its instant film, right? In memoriam, PC World (shut up) blogged this series of ads for Polaroid. Yep, the Mariette Hartley-James Garner ones are here.
Thought for the day
maddux:
“However, outside her core base of support, all this electability has a dark side...”
– Don’t screw up, Democrats, Barack Obama is your man | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online (Thanks to squashed for the pointer to the article)
