April 2008
32 posts
Twitter has a snooze button →
Oh thank god — I’ve been hoping for months someone would make this app. (No offense to my Twitter friends, but, well, sometimes you just need a break from ObamaNews.)
Ten Modern Myths →
“The myth of management: This claims that people can be managed like warehouses and airports, and that some other people are especially good at it. This is entirely wrong, although it has spread over the UK like the grey goo that some fear nanotechnology would unleash (manotechnology, perhaps, and just as lethal). People can be persuaded, and ordered, given incentives and penalties,...
“Oh, I learned about this guy in school. He was French, he ran around naked, and...”
– 14 or 15-year-old overheard talking to his father while looking at “Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)” by Jackson Pollock at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Rather Difficult Font Game →
I’m too embarrassed to post my pathetic score, but maybe some font junkies can do better.
Atheist soldier claims harassment - CNN.com →
psychoviolinist: I fully support Jeremy Hall.
Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’ →
Prison sentences here have become “vastly harsher than in any other country to which the United States would ordinarily be compared,” Michael H. Tonry, a leading authority on crime policy, wrote in “The Handbook of Crime and Punishment.” Indeed, said Vivien Stern, a research fellow at the prison studies center in London, the American incarceration rate has made the United States “a rogue state, a...
“The best thing about 88 Minutes is the title. Jon Avnet’s movie bumbles...”
– Anthony Lane
Five Myths About Drinking Water : NPR →
browneyes:
Myth No. 1: Drink Eight Glasses Each Day Myth No. 2: Drinking Lots of Water Helps Clear Out Toxins Myth No. 3: Lots of Water Equals Healthier Skin Myth No. 4: Drinking Extra Water Leads to Weight Loss Myth No. 5: It’s Easy to Get Dehydrated During a Workout
“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib,...”
– America’s historians, it seems, don’t think much of George W. Bush.
BBC Senses Test →
Proving once again that I have no spatial reasoning skills, I score 12 out of 20. Pretty interesting test from the BBC.