after finally finishing t.c. boyle's wonderful but long 'road to wellville', i decided to go with something a little lighter for my next few reads. i just finished john d. macdonald's 'nightmare in pink', the second travis mcgee novel. macdonald...

only richard could start laughing while eating a chicken finger and end up with a piece of chicken going up his nose...the back way. true story....

from gizmodo: Immortalize yourself in wood with a “Pirolette,” a hand-carved art object from Turn Your Head that's custom-made from your own profile by Tom Beshara. Notice the wood fills the space between two opposing profiles of your own face....

i finally got around to spending the 3.5 hours necessary to complete the eHarmony.com compatibility/personality test this morning. ok, so it didn't actually take that long, but it certainly felt like it. there are a wide variety of different levels...

i forgot to put a cup of yogurt in my lunch box this morning and i didn't realize it until lunch when i opened it up. it made me mad at myself. and then i felt dumb for getting mad...

from 'schneier on security': On March 4, University of California Berkeley (Cal) played a basketball game against the University of Southern California (USC). With Cal in contention for the PAC-10 title and the NCAA tournament at stake, the game was...

i had planned on spending saturday morning with a strong cuppa tea, working on my blog. then on thursday my mom called saying the fam was gettin together at a cracker barrel out in the middle of nowhere (bessemer to...

bbc news | out of the blue...

from creating passionate users: Most of us want to practice the things we're already good at, and avoid the things we suck at. We stay average or intermediate amateurs forever...Yet the research says that if we were willing to put...

one of the funniest blogs i have subscribed to in bloglines is overheardinnewyork.com. i rarely reference it on my blog because some of it might not be safe for work and some people might be offended by some of the...

i found this a few weeks back on several different blogs that i read and thought it was cute. if you like you can respond in the comments, post it to  your own journal or both.Four jobs you’ve had in...

thanks to the wayback machine i finally was able to find this old page which went offline about the time i e-mailed it out about 2 years ago. This section of Teemings Extras features what has probably become the most...

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1797416 a thread about removing the thought bubbles from the garfield cartoon to make them more surreal....

http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom.htm photo set of an atomic blast taken with a high speed camera....

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70167-0.html?tw=wn_technology_7 interesting article from wired about why the national id system might not end up taking over for all types of individual cards. found via: reddit...

a collections of images to print out and color...if you're into that kind of thing. http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/index.php...

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go here to see the picture and read the story....

if this is a bit of a ramble, it is because i just got finished watching the movie and my thoughts are unorganized at the moment. goblet of fire is a great return to series after prisoner of azkaban, a...

i thought i had missed going to see 'harry potter and the goblet of fire' on the big screen, until my cousin ray told me that it was still playing at the cheap theater. so i am actually skipping breakfast-for-supper...

i am only posting this because i responded to tayrn's and so i have to post it myself. please forgive me.If you woke up one morning, rolled over, and saw the person who posted this in your bed, what would...

i would like to thank my bud robert e. for helping me with the weird indent issue on the sidebar. i wish i knew the link to robert's web design company so i could link to him and give a...

astronaut jesus cross suckers talking jesus and mary dolls chocolate sacred heart of jesus ???? ???? ????...

from the cool hunter: Let there be light! It's natural light in a variety of natures forms. The SkyPort light (pictured left) collecting panel system is a revolutionary way of shedding natural light into enclosed spaces. Here's how it works:...

for those who remember this story from a few months back about a girl with a peanut allergy dying after her boyfriend ate a peanut-butter snack and then kissed her, the coroner has come out and said that the allergy...

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/t_rando/t_rando1.html three pages of pics. press the right button at the bottom of the page....

few people know that alex proyas's 'dark city', a more mature, cerebral version of 'the matrix' in my opinion, is one of my favorite films. this site does a side by side image comparison of 'dark city' and 'the matrix'...

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DE8D.htm i don't like or agree with this article, but still thought it was interesting enough to post. my comments on it can be found in the reddit comment thread here. found via: reddit...

i got my hair cut yesterday as i do every 3-6 months. most guys i know get their hair cut every 4-6 weeks, but i can't do that. for whatever reason, i have an odd neurosis about people hanging over...

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i will now blame my nonexistant dating life on these sites. from the new york times: Framed in pink, the DontDateHimGirl.com site allows a woman to post the name and photograph of a man she says has wronged her, along...