Monthly Archives: November 2007

Geography Quiz

November 23, 2007 – 10:36 am

Test your geography and mousing skills at the same time! And it’s fun!! And I don’t even like geography!!! I got about 350,000 (I forgot to look, what a moron) and was never more than 6300km* away from where I should have been (turns out it’s a toss-up whether I know least about Indonesia/Pacific Islands [...]

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Fame!

November 22, 2007 – 11:50 am

Small, internet fame, and unlinked fame at that, but I’m not proud. To clarify, I’m the captioner, not the cat. Update: Now with linkage.

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Things I Didn’t Know Existed, Part Something

November 21, 2007 – 10:03 am

While reading about this ultimate bit of cool geekery, I read with amazement that you can get a machine to wash your balls!

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Homeopathy

November 20, 2007 – 9:34 am

Here’s a great article about the nonsense of Homeopathy, the idea that giving people a dilute solution of a substance that causes their symptoms can cure those symptoms. A couple of ideas that hadn’t registered with me before: 1. One of the standard dilutions used is 100C, which translates to 1 in 100100. To translate [...]

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Justice Being Undone

November 19, 2007 – 9:53 am

It appears that the President has appointed two judges who donated to his campaign while they were being considered for their judgeships. There are two sides to justice, embodied in the saying “Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.” Clearly this has nothing to do with the first part [...]

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