Category Archives: General
Bedside Bibles returning to Fredericton hospital
CBC News:Bedside Bibles returning to Fredericton hospital A hospital in Fredericton will be putting Bibles back in its bedside tables, but they’ll be wrapped in plastic to prevent them from transmitting germs between patients. The Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital stepped into a public relations nightmare last month when it removed the Bibles in the name of infection control. Critics said the move was either anti-Christian or a case of political correctness taken to the extreme. Hospital spokesperson Shelley Fletcher says it was neither – though she admits it was a mistake to round up the bedside Bibles without making arrangements for patients to get “clean” copies.
Allergic reaction ends rapping marathon
CBC Arts: Allergic reaction ends rapping marathon. An attempt by a Winnipeg hip-hopper to set the record for the longest rap ever has ended because of an allergic reaction. Tyler Tynes, who goes by the stage name the Hafrican, fell down Thursday after 14 hours of rhyming. He had been aiming to last for 24 hours. According to the Canadian Press, a message on the cell phone of the artist’s publicist, Jamie Hall, said the rapper “was only able to come in at 14 hours due to an allergic reaction to an energy drink, which caused him to collapse.
Vatican radio officials convicted
CBC News:Vatican radio officials convicted A court in Rome on Monday convicted a Vatican cardinal and the head of the city-state’s radio station for electromagnetic pollution.
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Salon — May 20, 2004. A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.
Three Columns – Flanking Menus
Postal Experiments
Technology guru Ray Kurzweil offers a vision of future fighting machines.
The New Yorker: E. B. White
VersaLaser
VersaLaser can transform images or drawings on your computer screen into real items made out of an amazing variety of materials… wood, plastic, fabric, paper, glass, leather, stone, ceramic, rubber… and it’s as easy to use as your printer.
North Korea wages war on long hair
Rude awakening to missile-defense dream
Frequent ejaculation may protect against cancer
New Scientist — April 4, 2004.
Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against prostate cancer, suggests the largest study of the issue to date yet.
Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
Museum of Hoaxes — From the Swiss spaghetti harvest to the case of the interfering brassieres and beyond.
One World or None
Federation of American Scientists
One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb
“In March 1946, seven months after World War II ended in fiery atomic bursts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Federation of American Scientists published One World or None, an eighty-six-page paperback that immediately became a national bestseller.”
Includes articles by Arthur H. Compton, Niels Bohr, Philip Morrison, J.R. Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein, and others
BBC News Styleguide
The Styleguide (270 k PDF) gives practical suggestions on many aspects of journalism style — “A valuable resource for anyone who wants to write well.”