In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
Just in case you somehow missed this classic Ken Jennings episode a few years back, please join us for a Jeopardy moment that will live in infamy…
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
What is with the media? People and animals all over Europe are choking on volcanic ash from the eruption in Iceland and nobody writes about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
Joel Achenbach’s take on the Decade
I really like Joel’s summary of the first 10% of the 21st century. I especially like his closing paragraph:
“As history marches on, this decade will be known for its stumbles and reversals. The scolds and doubters reminded us that hope is not a plan. But neither is despair a winning strategy. The smart move is to look back at the 2000s glancingly, and then turn, with optimism, to the decade ahead.”
Lady Gaga is a Genius
I don’t care what anybody says… Lady G is a genius.
Interesting Google-ish Thing
I was researching a basic “difference between” question, and I was extremely intriuged by the top 10 Google suggested searches. Among other things, the #1 suggests to me that English is not dead.
This tagline is owned.
I used to have a tag line in my header that said “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” (Think about it.)
Then somewhere along the line I changed it to the current one, “It’s time to take this bull by the horns and milk it.”, which is wholly original, and I think, clever. Don’t believe me? This one is mine.
Now.. how do I get Googlebot to forget my old (Google-operated) BlogSpot blog and point here? It’s a quandry.
Welcome to October Linky-Doodles
- Ever heard of a “man cave?” I wouldn’t mind having one even a little bit.
- Neil Young plays All along the Watchtower. Well.
- Tesla vs. Einstein – I love Nikola, but my money’s on Albert.
- I read this book recently and recommend it highly. The Lady Janet liked it too!
- Britney does Alanis surprisingly well.
- A friend recommended this music threory site.
- Mike Judge (Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy) has a new movie!
- Odd page of really interesting links on a site that reviews gourmet shaving products. Really.
- The Talent Code is another really good book – it’s all about the 10,000 hours of practice rule for developing talent.
- Fidelity.com’s investment study page – if you’re over 23 and you aren’t saving for your retirement, you’re doing something wrong.
- Put your text on various templates (Asparagus Pee for Dummies)?”
- Chronicling America – great source for a bunch of old newspapers. I found a great article about our hometown from 100 years ago.
- Did you hear that the Beatles have re-released all their material? Here’s the Rolling Stone Beatles headquarters, which includes the audio recordings of John Lennon’s interviews with Jan Wenner.
- Need a tagline for your signature? Here’s a handy site. My favorite (under “making you think”) is: “A self-addressed envelope would be addressed ‘envelope’.”; it’s very Steven Wright.
- The Top 50 websites, according to Time magazine.
- Intriguing graphic illustration of the bailout by a Motley Fool blogger.
- eSarcasm – kinda like The Onion, but a little more geeky and not as good. But still good.
- Results page for my personality test at the BBC’s really cool mind and body site – please explore the site too.
- Health reform: Joel Achenbach blogs on the treatment of Stephen Hawking under the national health.
- Duct tape made it to the moon. And it came in really handy. Really.
- “I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his lifetime.” – James M. Barrie (Really good article by Michael Shermer, of the Skeptics Society.)
- The Lady Janet (my wifey to any newbies) is President of the Audio Publishers Association. (I’m very proud to be the first gentleman in our industry.)
- Euler’s identity, my favorite equation. By the way, a very clever British chum of mine who went to University finally taught me that this is pronounced “Oiler.”
- Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food) has some things to say about American eating habits in light of the popularity of cooking shows, including Julie & Julia.
- Zappa on John & Yoko (also lots of other good Zappa YouTubes).
- Tristan Prettyman with Jason Mraz – good song – is this his girlfriend?
- Bob Schneider’s Captain Kirk – cool video and good YouTube channel.
- How the world looked to Richard P. Feynman and me.
- Feynman on religion.
- If you really want to grill anything properly, ribs say, you need to listen to this guy. I followed his recipe for ribs (grilled for 5 hours over smoke and water)… mmm.
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By the way, there appears to be no “real” plural of “flu,” so I have decided to declare that the plural of “flu” is “flus” — it certainly isn’t “flues.”