AlterNet: By George Monbiot. “All over Britain, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause of global warming: the growth of aviation.”
Category Archives: General
The Truth about Jaywalking
maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity: The first step is to accept walking as a legitimate form of transportation, one that is equal—or even superior—to vehicle transport.
Cellphone gun
Cellular: Fires four .22s.
Apache and PHP on a Mac
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
Yahoo! News: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property’s owner.
How Products Are Made
Link: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products.
Litter tax proposed for fast-food places
OAKLAND: “Fed up with kids dropping burger wrappers, beverage cups and french fry cartons on the streets and sidewalks surrounding the city’s schools, the Oakland City Council is poised to take the unprecedented step of taxing fast-food joints and convenience stores to help clean up the mess.”
Top 100 Films
They shoot pictures, don’t they?: A subset of their top 1000 greatest films.
And here’s the hard one …
The Guardian: Bad news for quizzers: the 101st annual quiz from King William’s College isn’t any easier than the previous 100.
FM radio reception tips
Prairie Public.Org::: The best most people can do is an outdoor or attic mounting. You can buy outdoor antennas made for FM, but TV antennas work very well.
Ebert’s Best 10 Movies of 2005
rogerebert.com: Crash, Syriana, Munich, Junebug, Brokeback Mountain, Me and You and Everyone we Know, Nine Lives, King Kong, Yes, Millions.
Also rans: The Best of Youth, Broken Flowers, Cinderella Man: Downfall, Duane Hopwood, Good Night, and Good Luck, Match Point, North Country, The New World, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Pride & Prejudice, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Batman Begins, Bee Season, Cache, Capote, The Constant Gardener, Fear and Trembling, Firecracker, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Head-On, A History of Violence, Hustle & Flow, Last Days, Lord of War, The Memory of a Killer, The Merchant of Venice, Mysterious Skin, Oldboy, Palindromes, Proof, Saraband, Schultze Gets the Blues, Shopgirl, Sin City, The Squid and the Whale, The Upside of Anger, Turtles Can Fly, Walk the Line, The World, Grizzly Man, Aliens of the Deep, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gunner Palace, March of the Penguins, Murderball, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Tell Them Who You Are, Touch the Sound, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Robots, Off the Map, The Weather Man, Keane, Duma, The Woodsman.
Map of the world scaled by population
David Hume on religion
“Survey most nations and most ages. Examine the religious principles, which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded, that they are any thing but sick men’s dreams: Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a being, who dignifies himself with the name of rational.”
(Via Pharyngula.)
Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den
Roger McGuinn has recorded hundreds of folk songs and offers free downloads of the mp3 files. Includes lyrics, chords, and historical information about the songs and previous performers.
Why Does God Hate Amputees
Marshall Brain Is God real? Or is he imaginary?
Entropy Gradient Reversals
Google Groups From Rageboy.
Stan Rosenthal’s translation of Tao Te Ching
Taoism. Even the finest teaching is not the Tao itself. Even the finest name is insufficient to define it.
Dry Ice safety rules
NOAA: KIDS: Never use dry ice without adult supervision. Dry ice can cause serious injury if not used carefully!!!
