There are good reasons to read other blogs. For one, no one is an expert at more than a few things. For two, more famous people get sent more interesting links.
Example taken from The Bad Astronomy Blog: Save yourself from government promulgated helmet designs that allow them better access to your thoughts!.
Ripped from SF Signal, the definitive Google Maps Hack: Risk!
From the Pandas Thumb.
There is a plush Flying Spaghetti Monster for sale on Ebay. You’ve got three days, ten hours from this post to bid on it.
The Onion has managed to enact mass hilarity inside my brain with their breaking news item, “Bush to Nominate Next Person who Walks Through the Door.”
From The Panda’s Thumb, comes a very amusing quote:
“Did you hear about the mafioso who studied French deconstructionist philosophy? He goes around making people offers that they can’t understand. “
I realized today that I missed an opportunity to declare a Jumped the Shark moment. This depresses me because I don’t get to, with little thought, entwine myself deeper into the industrio-tv culture. Maybe next time.
To that end, referencing previous Blog entries regarding how much Lost sucks now, and how much it should have done better , I’m forced to declare that when they ended this season’s second episode with the SAME CLIFFHANGER as the first episode, Lost had Jumped the Shark.
Something good must be going on.
After years of languishing deep down in the archives of Google, now if you search “ruhsam” you get my blog as the top spot! Woo hoo for egos!
Never Look at the Sun! Especially with a telescope in between you and it. Don’t believe me? Try the link and see what happens to a conspicuously eyeball-sized grape that is placed in front of the eyepiece of a solar telescope.
This link seconded to me through the Bad Astronomy Blog.
This morning, Jenn and I attended a WABE (Atlanta Public Radio 90.1 FM) function with special guest Kai Ryssdal from Marketplace, of American Public Media. This was free event sponsored by a whole host of companies, and it was quite nice to be at.
Mr. Ryssdal was engaging, as one would expect if you’ve ever heard him on air (Marketplace, on at 6:30 PM Eastern 5 days a week, on your friendly neighborhood public radio station). He talked about the types of programs that the Marketplace staff did, how none of them were business people, and weren’t really interested in doing “business” stories. Again, if you’re familiar with the show, you know they take an off-beat angle on business and economics. A specific reference to this was brought up by the GM of WABE who mentioned the piece Marketplace did on the economics of exotic dancing.
The man has an exceptional voice. It was soothing to listen to him. If you ever have a chance to hear him speak, I would recommend it.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170254,00.html
This was brought to my attention by a co-worker. Fox News had an interview a Mr. Peter Cordani who wants to use the same sort of gel used in diapers to disrupt hurricanes a little bit.
My first instinctive reaction was “this guy is full of crap,” but then I got to thinking about it. Diaper gel coagulates with the addition of water. It must be an endothermic reaction or they wouldn’t put it into diapers. Maybe this guy has got something.
Anyhow, check out the links. I haven’t read them all, but I did skim the Fox News article.