If familiarity breeds contempt, unfamiliarity breeds indifference.
Scott at DSvS has gotten into the habit of asking why LCMS people can raise a ruckus about the firing of a radio talk show host and producer but not raise a ruckus about other topics.
One answer arises from our own faults. We are too easily fatigued by [...]
I didn’t realize until the count read 1498 that I was getting close to 1500. The archive number reads 1695, but that’s because faulty WordPress drafts and currently irrelevant LiveJournal notes were taking up numbers.
I’ve tried to do some things to make the blog easier to read and use. The latest thing is the individual [...]
Diane Meyer at Respublica asks, “How fast can you type?” and passes along an online typing test. I was rated coming out of high school typing class at 60 words per minute, so I was a little surprised when I got:
102 words
Speedtest
The test was mostly short words and lasted just a minute, but I [...]
HT: Little Green Footballs
For Saturday, March 29, Google.co.uk has turned its background black in support of the charity “Earth Hour.” The charity wants people to turn off the lights for an hour, preferably at a time one would have them on: 8:00-9:00pm local time.
Google.co.uk is (and I suppose Google.com will be) showing either humor or [...]
Saccharin has been known for decades to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Your answer may rightly be, “So what?”
Gilbert Ross, M.D. writing for The American Spectator, reports that federal risk assessors no longer trust high-dosage animal testing to predict what will happen in humans.
Forty-plus experts in various relevant fields reviewed our publication and agreed [...]
I remember a discussion in my Physical Chemistry II class at the then University of Missouri-Rolla (now MST). Dr. D. Vincent Roach had just finished a day and a half derivation of the ideal gas law from statistical mechanics — he went into a little more detail than Wikipedia. You may remember the final line [...]
The Washington Post reports on the arson committed to homes in Echo Lake, Washington, by the Earth Liberation Front.
“McMansions and RCDs r not green,” the sign said, referring to rural cluster subdivisions, the zoning that preserves open space while allowing more houses.
Even though the homes were built to be environmentally more friendly, the ELF terrorists [...]
At some risk to my ego I am injecting a little democracy into NR. When you look at an individual post, there is a bar at the bottom which lets you rate the post from 1 to 5. Move your mouse over the bar, and you’ll see how it works. The highest-rated posts [...]
