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Our former neighbor when we lived in Ohio.
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Now that's an interesting list.
I'm not sure I can even adequately paraphrase the point of this contest, so let me take advantage of their paraphrasing: "The short version is that an Amazonian tribe uses verb suffixes as a means of indicating the source of their information. Your challenge is to come up with verb suffixes for English to make it easier to know where a person is coming from with what they're talking about (and whether they're worth listening to)."
Be sure to read the comments; they're priceless.
In the old part of the library.
Awesome. Hat tip to my friend MJ for this one.
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Drinking a pint of water before you eat apparently does help you lose weight.
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Hand Crafted, Infinitely Scalable & Royalty-Free Icons for User Interface Designers - this is going to be fantastic to use for CSS3
MSNBC is running a poll asking why people believe President Obama is a Muslim. It has some flaws, so I fixed it for them.
John Cleese discussing writing, creativity, and getting in the zone for creative work. One of his main points is the importance of not being interrupted while writing - once you are distracted from your task, it's very difficult to get back on the moving train of thought. So closing yourself off to disruptions is a key to creative work.
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Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up? This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to launch” and “boomerang kids.” Two new sitcoms feature grown children moving back in with their parents — “$#*! My Dad Says,” starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-something son can’t make it on his own as a blogger, and “Big Lake,” in which a financial whiz kid loses his Wall Street job and moves back home to rural Pennsylvania. A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?
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“Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories,” said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory. He said he believed that when the brain was constantly stimulated, “you prevent this learning process.”
The Evansville Courier and Press has an interesting article investigating the Republican political power grab that was Indianapolis' "Unigov" consolidation of Indianapolis with Marion County in the 1970s.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Merging the city and county governments here helped improve what amounted to a scattershot set of public services, but it also diminished the political power of the Democratic Party, and traditionally Democratic African-American voters, in particular, for a generation.The winners when the state Legislature combined Indianapolis and Marion County under one "Unigov" in 1970 were the city's suburban Republicans -- typically wealthier and typically white -- who were enjoying their recent sweep into majority status.
The losers were Democrats who suddenly faced a vote-rich opposition party for the mayor's office and control of the council.
In addition to removing the Democrats from power and consigning the black community to almost permanent poverty and crime through diminished services and terrible schools, it also set the stage for the slow death of the city itself, and the rise of Hamilton County as the wealthy leech feeding off the dying metropolis' carcass.
Dan's birthday celebration
Fun Things to Do in Your Car