Category: Web

I might need to get a subscription to The New Yorker. I’ve never read it before, but they publish some great stories. I only recently discovered the writings of Malcolm Gladwell who is a regular contributor. Those are amazingly good. And now, I’ve just read with fascination Annals of Medicine — The Bell Curve, which…

Flying Sharks, Flaming Swords, Pirates, Robots, Time Travel — I don’t remember any of that stuff being in To Kill a Mockingbird. Then again, it has been a really long time since I read it. In fact, to tell you the truth, I don’t remember anything at all about the book. Based on this most…

I don’t buy most of what they’re talking about in EPIC 2014. I mean, I don’t even buy most of their analysis of the history much less their projections into the future. I guess time will tell. It was semi-interesting though which is more than I can say for most of what I’ve seen on…

Do all Asians look alike to you? Take the Test and find out. Here’s an interesting fact about me. I was almost perfect with the women, and almost completely screwed up the men. I guess it’s all what you pay attention to. Anyway, I split the ticket for 9 out of 18 which puts me…

The Ketchup Conundrum is a great read. I had no idea that flavor balance was such a precarious thing, or that so much thought and research went into creating mass market foods. Now, I want to go have a burger with a great big dollop of ketchup, but as with wines, I’m afraid that my…

Well, I like Edgar. Unfortunately, it seems like I’m the only one who does: Nobody Likes Edgar via

Encyclopedia Mythica looks like a very nice resource.

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Boy, I could have used a site like Convince Your Mom.com about two weeks ago. Welcome to Convinceyourmom.com, a website to help you convince those you care about not to vote for George W. Bush in this year’s election. Here, I’ve been spending my mornings running around doing the research to find the facts to…

I feel like there’s something I’m not getting about del.icio.us. Everywhere i go on the web, people are talking about it (and flickr) as the new hotness. Maybe it’s that these things are fundamentally community tools, and I’m not as jacked in to any particular communities. I can see where having a site of bookmarks…