Hannah over at This Garden Is Illegal talks about mint and, along the way, mentions the myth behind it. If she wrote high school textbooks kids would be way more into ancient mythology.
She Was Mint To Be With Him
The myth behind the origins of the name Mentha reads better than an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. [...]
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com
Old news, but this part makes me laugh:
The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; they were based on the assumption that gasoline would range from $2.26 per gallon in 2016 to $2.51 per gallon in 2030, and set a maximum average [...]
TidBITS Opinion: Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
A good article on the ways in which we are often asked to pay not for content, but for the delivery method. There’s also some interesting musings on how many of us interact
Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind by Rachel Swirsky
The last word ever spoken by a human is said in a language derived from Hindi. The word is trasa. Roughly translated: thirst or desire.
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The Infamous Brad writes a great analysis of Ayn Rand’s work.
Seriously, are you tired of me waving his flag? Well, tough - his recent words on marriage are on a par with his excellent & infamous Being Poor essay, but so much more joyful.
When you plan your wedding, try to cover all contingencies. When the one thing you forgot could go wrong does go wrong [...]
Yet again, we find great free reading on the internet. This time, Lewis Shiner, who I was pointed at by the always awesome John Scalzi. So far I’ve only read one of the short stories - Till Human Voices Wake Us - but it was quite good. And yes, I started with that one because [...]
Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables in the New York Times
As if you needed yet more evidence to suggest that Michael Pollen is right and we should just eat like normal people have for most of recorded history rather than rely upon the incomplete understanding we have of how nutrients work. Here’s [...]
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… because this gets funnier every time I see it.
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More about “so what” from Michael Pollan.
Pet Monkeys - The Financial Considerations
How do you not love an article with that title?
Wait A Second!: Informant can’t sue the police for drug bust gone awry
But the legal analysis is more complicated. In DeShaney, the Supreme Court ruled that “nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.” There [...]
DAVE
For sooth, open the pod bay doors, please HAL.
HAL, I beseech thee. Dost though read me, not?
Thy ears, it seems, are like yon portals barred
T’entreaties from my lips, though said again.
And yet again, O dost though read me, HAL?
HAL, dost thou read me? Canst thou hear my call?
HAL
I hear you well.
DAVE
Praise God! Unlatch! Unlatch!
And it [...]
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What If Somebody You Know Steals Your Identity? ∞ Get Rich Slowly
This is just a tragic story, and such an interesting subject. In reading it I got to thinking about my conflicting impulses when I consider “what if?” and it made me wonder why I had some of the more sympathetic reactions.
After all, if a [...]
Jason called this a testament to “hand sphincter control” and I don’t know how better to describe it.
Retardid Policeman!
If he was ashamed to have committed adultery in his heart what might this do to him?
How much better can it get? A free bit of excellent science fiction writing that covers time travel with humor and takes a swipe at Wikipedia and forum lawyering?
Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory
At 02:29:17, SilverFox316 wrote:
All right; that’s it. Having just returned from 1907 Vienna where I secured the expulsion of Hitler [...]
I really should not be so philosophical about spam, considering how much time I spend fighting it. Maybe it’s a correlary of the “if you spend too long fighting monsters you become a monster yourself” concept. I’m not going to start sending it but sometimes it seems more like an amusing sparring partner than an [...]
Cat and Girl knows.
If you’re not a Metblogger the below may not be of interest to you. If you are, c’mon in.
And this is my favorite of them so far, I think. “Liar crevice” cracks me up.
How Idiots Pull Down Palm Trees
This is why math (basic geometry) and science (levers) education is important….
garfield minus garfield is what happens when you take Garfield out of the strip bearing his name and just leave Jon, talking and reacting to… nothing.
And it’s about a hundred times better than it was before.
If you need an argument for allowing transformative works in copyright, this is a good one. It’s witty and fun [...]
Trunk Monkey: An innovative idea.
local men are stupid
I could live with the fact that someone mistook me for a professor when I walked into a classroom the other day; let’s face it, I’m almost 20 years older than incoming freshmen.
But being considered past the target demographic for science fiction publishers? WTF! I have disposable income for books, you jerks!
Texas Legislation
I’d love to believe this is isolated to Texas…
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