November 2009
47 posts
Secret Mission Rescues Yemen's Jews - WSJ.com →
October 2009
50 posts
Don’t Tell Geico: You May Be a Natural Born Bad... →
Google Free Services
As you may have read about on some blogs that Ben reads, Google gives away great stuff for free. I am a big fan as can be seen by the below widget which now appears on the left side of my blog. If you click it, you can leave me a voicemail. If this gets annoying, I’ll delete it. And sarcasm won’t come through because I’ll be reading these emails and there is no font for sarcasm.
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“If drink is such a sedative, it can make people who are jumpy on the road, or...”
– Drink relaxes jumpy Irish drivers, MP says | Top News | Reuters
Ravens Insider: Gaither expects to return and play... →
Neighbors thought dead man's body was part of... →
really?
Make Like a Leaf: Next-Gen Paint Could Strike... →
mental_floss Blog » How Much Do These Umpires Get... →
Also includes the “real jobs” for NFL refs…when Ed Hochuli isn’t working out or officiating a game, you might find him in a courtroom. He’s a trial lawyer in the Arizona firm Jones, Skelton, and Hochuli, which employs over 80 attorneys.
Say No To Phonebooks blog | →
The US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every... →
Tricked-Out Golf Carts Swarm Florida Communities →
“See the wildlife
From Afar
Until you hit it
With your car”
– Signs along the highway in Yellowstone
“Wildlife ahead!
That means go Slow!
That Bull Moose…
Is some cows beau!”
– Signs along the highway in Jackson Hole
Smart Select →
I made this (The sander, not the webpage)
benjaminstein:
Just a quick Ruby script to convert a genome to into boustrophedonic form, in case it ever comes up again.
n=0; File.open(‘genome.fasta’).map{|line| (n+=1).odd? ? line : line.reverse }
Sweet! I needed one of those!
WatchAmazing
Thanks Dad!
Great dinner of fried bluefish and broiled rockfish - not to mention a great day on the Bay!
Blue fish guts, that's their favorite!
-Fish gutter talking about his flock of seagulls
Man Who Keyed Electric RAV4 Goes to Prison, Ending... →
TSA: Religious Holiday of Sukkot →
Observant Jewish travelers may carry four plants – a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow twigs, and a citron – in airports and through security checkpoints.
Jewish travelers may be observed in prayer, shaking the bundle of plants in six directions.
A Lamp With An Alternative Energy Source - Your... →
Another problem I have with social networking...
So, I like to remember peoples birthdays. Not as trivia, but for many friends I only call them once a year and I feel that my rememberance of thier special day would be appreciated. Of course, I don’t memorize them all, I do have calendars. But, now with the social networking sites (most of which I don’t even subscribe to) everyone gets a reminder that your birthday is coming up soon,...