Note: On the Intertubes, he word “strike” and “scienceblogs” now occurs randomly in relation to topic at hand rather than in connection with Pepsico. Such as “Lightning Strike” and “Hunger Strike” and “doesn’t strike me as shocking”
Note: When you are a single parent, it’s pretty much baby OR blogging. I’ve been a single parent for several days, but getting back to the whole “village raises the child” thing shortly.
Everybody should do this:
Dear Target,
What’s $2183.70 to a big company like you, beloved by millions of shoppers throughout the land, with sales of $63.4 billion during 2009? Not much, but it’s what my little family of three spent at your stores in 2009 and 2010, up to now. I know you don’t need me anymore. After all, your 2009 results “reflect the strongest retail segment profit in [your] history”.
It’s been grand, or, dare I say “Super”, but I think it’s time we see other people….
Details on the Barbie Video Girl Doll
Your Barbie Video Girl doll is a real working video camera! With Video Girl, it’s fun and easy to make your own movies. Here’s how it works: her necklace is really a video camera lens! Lift her hood and you’ll see a color LCD screen and three easy-to-use controls. The screen lets you see what you shoot! With just the push of a button, you can record any video you want, and then play it back instantly. You can also plug Video Girl into your computer and download your movies, then watch and share them with your friends! Includes doll, USB 2.0 cord. Barbie Video Girl doll is Windows/Mac compatible. Visit Barbie.com/videogirl to download free Video Girl editing software and get fun movie-making tips!
Wanted: A Firefox plugin that automatically scrolls pre-selected web pages down a certain distance to automatically cover the ubiquitous banner ad. It could be called “curtains.”
The whole Pepsi maneno is over, and we are moving on. But I thought you’d like to see this site just because it is so unbelievably ugly. Be careful. The first time I opened this web page up on one of those old fashioned CRT monitors, the glass broke.
And that time may be now.
There is a beer (a Belgian ale to be exact) which costs over US$700 a bottle. It is 55 proof and looks like this:
Continue reading There comes a time when revolution is the only answer
The story of Bora and Sci, two bloggers you may have heard of.
OMG, bugs AND cool graphs in the same post.
And, for something quit serious: Exercise and Peripheral Artery Disease
“Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity…And I’m not afraid to say it. ” … so THAT’s why they hate Mel Gibson? Follow the bouncing logic here.
When I was a kid, I collected stamp. I loved it. Then, one day, my uncle sent me a box of ash from a volcano that had destroyed his village in Costa Rica. That was cool. Now, these two cool things are combined into one: Iceland issues stamps made with Eyjafjallajökull ash
A report from the field: Out in the Oil with Captain Dave
Recently I witnessed something remarkable-yet altogether ordinary.
I had the honor of being invited to a family’s memorial service a while ago. While not a member of this family, I am very close to one member and through him knew the deceased. To the others, Sylvia was sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, and relationships extending outward from there. Her own family had scattered after her divorce, and she moved up to Minnesota to be close to her brother’s family.
Just do it.
You were planning to give your favorite candidate 50 bucks, and 10 bucks to the Girl Scouts or whatever, and maybe a few bucks to some other cause over the next six months. Well, divert five, ten bucks (or if you’re loaded, make it large) as an expression of appreciation to Bora.
Why? How? Who? Huh?
Thank you very much.
… by people who really know how to tell a fortune…
Ask us any question you want! And we’ll answer it for you! We’ll have tarot cards! Palm readings! A crystal* ball! And dowsing pendulums (courtesy of SurlyRamics)!
You can even attend out pseudoworkshop “5 minute Google: How to impress your drunk ass friends with psychic readings”. Then you can hold your own psychic fair!
We’ll even have raffles (we already know that you’re a winner!) And a silent auction. And chairs! And an open bar! And a skeptical psychic face off!
You can even compete to prove your own psychic powers are the best in Chicago!
Be there!
Friday, July 23
8:00pm
Galway Arms
2442 N Clark
Chicago, Il
Or at least, Greg Laden’s Blog is no longer on strike. There is a scheduled phone conversation today between an elite subset of bloggers and the management. I have no idea how the phone call will go (or went), but I’ve been promised a summary eventually.
Continue reading The Scienceblogs Strike is Over
There is a small but vocal movement of people who refuse to believe that skin cancer caused by sunlight is a significant health risk. These people tend to also believe that the risk is being purposely hyped by others, and that our current approach to skin cancer prevention is causing an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency….
On Friday, Paul Goldberg of The Cancer Letter reported on an investigation into Duke cancer researcher, Anil Potti, MD, and claims made that he was a Rhodes Scholar – in Australia. The misrepresentation was made on grant applications to NIH and the American Cancer Society.
This is important. Read it on Terra Sigillata.