Freakonomics is looking for a six word inauguration speech for Obama — in the vein of that six word biography book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.”
Despite my extreme obscurity, no one asked me to contribute to that book, but for what it’s worth here’s what I would [...]
I love the White Sox, but they needed to lose in this case.
Consumerist is on Time’s best blog list. Hooray!
We’re #10 in between Freakonomics and Wired’s Threat Level blog. Such excellent company. I’m blushing.
Consumerist [Time]
Friend: so a friend of mine calls me the other day
Friend: said “remember mr. Borrelli from high school?”
Friend: sure sure
Friend: “yeah he was just on the news, he got arrested”
Friend: no shit what for
Friend: “possessing weed and DYNAMITE”
Friend: now…..i would’ve never put those two together
Friend: but it works
Meg: ahahah
Meg: yeah
Meg: one at a time
A Bishop [...]
There was an extremely interesting guest post by Eliezer Yudkowsky on I Will Teach You To Be Rich the other day. The upshot was that the more you “know” about the details of a project the less qualified you are to judge how long it will take.
While it sounds counter-intuitive, I’m absolutely 100% on board [...]
I have a new “scariest disease,” to tell people about when I’m bored. Meet Fatal familial insomnia.
It’s similar to mad cow disease in that its caused by prions, but its genetic.
One day, at around age 30, you lose the ability to fall asleep. As you might imagine, this causes you to die.
There is no treatment [...]
Apparently there’s a medical condition called uncombable hair syndrome. I was not aware of this. Wiki says:
Uncombable hair syndrome, also known as Pili trianguli et canaliculi and Spun glass hair is a rare structural anomaly of the hair with a variable degree of effect. It has been discovered in the 1970’s[1] It becomes apparent from [...]