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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
This one includes an excellent quote from Schopenhauer: “A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills.”
I agree with Adams that an idea as simple as "We don't know as much as we think we know" can change the world. It reminds me of another of his posts from November, we he suggests that one way to magically solve all of the world's problems would be to simply "imbue us all with the knowledge of who is smarter than ourselves on any given topic."
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Friday, April 6, 2007
A recent comment on Clark's blog made the following claim:
Brigham Young once commented on the weather in St. George with a statement something like this: "If I only had a house in St. George and a house in hell, I'd summer over in hell."I've heard similar quotes attributed to various people, mostly about Texas (because I live here) but also about various other places. I suspected the comment had been made about nearly every state and city in the Southwest, so I googled "live in * and rent out *" (because that's the way I've heard it most often) with interesting results.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
For my 100th post, I give you a list of Top 100 sites from across the vast reaches of cyberspace.
Oldest 100 Currently Registered .com Domains
Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2006
Top 100 Kids' Books
Top 100 Baby Names of 2006
Michael and Benjamin make the cut; Timothy and Amy do not.
PC World's 100 Best products of 2006
100 Biggest Cities
Where is SLC? Is it really smaller than Boise?
Top 100 Chuck Norris Facts
100 Greatest Theorems
100 Greatest TV Episodes
That should do it for now.
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I didn't do a lot of snow fort building as a kid, but this article represents a growing genre that is close to my heart: the "Wow, with my grown-up brains, muscles, and money, plus access to tools like the Internet, I can do all my favorite childhood activities so much BETTER!" genre.
I've been known to apply this thinking to video games, Legos, riding bikes, coloring books, skateboarding, cartoons, and comics, to name a few.
Someday when I'm really old I hope to apply the same kind of thinking to activities I undertook in my twenties. Like college.
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"I want to help people. I want their life to be a better life. I want them to have what I have. A whole range of guns. Made from office supplies."
Scott and I came across this site years ago, but I had forgotten about it until a binder clip to the back of the head suddenly jogged my memory this morning.
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It all started with this site: How many of the 50 states can you name in 10 minutes?
I saw it a couple of weeks ago, but didn't post about it because I wasn't really impressed. First of all, it was kind of easy--I named all 50 in less than 5 minutes. Then you had to wait for the time to run out, and then it didn't even verify your answers. It just popped up a list of the correct answers and you were supposed to check them yourself. Boooring.
But apparently the Internet thought it was the greatest thing ever, because similar tests started popping up everywhere. And the copycats are much better. First of all, they are more challenging: World Countries, African Nations, UN Member States. Also, they sport a much improved interface. The correct answers are verified as you go, and it keeps a running tally for you of how many are left. Very nice.
Not to be outdone, Ironic Sans went back and spiffed up their original States quiz, so now it's high-tech like the others.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Some, like this pocketknife, are obvious errors.
But others, like this antique paperweight, are for reals. $85 large. Wow.
SenseList has a whole list of them. That's what they have. Whole lists of things.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
There was some chatter yesterday about how Google had messed up their Valentine's Day Google Doodle.
Everyone was all, "What's a Googe?"
A few people found answers in obscure references, such as Barnabe Googe, a 16th Century poet, and Debbie Googe of My Bloody Valentine.
But in the end, Google wants these people to know that they just don't get it. The extra long stem on the strawberry is the L. Case closed.
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Your typical list of crazy laws, still on the books but rarely enforced, broken down by state.
I liked this one, which was never actually a law:A Utah legislator proposed a resolution urging that each TV weather person be required to provide an ice cream cone to every member of the state House of Representatives whenever the forecast was wrong. The resolution failed, perhaps on First Amendment grounds.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Today is Amy's birthday. Happy Birthday Amy!
But the American Pie Council would like you to remember that January 23rd is also National Pie Day.
So do your patriotic duty and perform a Random Act of Pieness today.
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Can you guess what the most shoplifted item in America is?
I couldn't.
It's meat.
Meat.
I've never even heard of anyone shoplifting meat before. I would have guessed it was some kind of clothes or accessory item at the mall, or possibly gum. (Hasn't every six year old stolen gum from the grocery store? Maybe it doesn't count as shoplifting if your mom makes you return it.)
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Neat Google Maps pic of an SR-71 sitting on the deck of a docked aircraft carrier.
So many questions. First of all, they don't look like they would be able to take off from aircraft carriers, and are these planes still active anyway? Maybe it's someone's souvenir or something.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
This essay represents a valiant attempt to rectify some of the continuity issues with the Star Wars saga.
Basically, the galaxy is held together by R2-D2 and Chewie.
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As in, "brown is the new black."
Some of my favorites:
Ohio is the new Florida.
Prequel is the new sequel.
Actual is the new virtual.
Knitting is the new rock 'n' roll.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Kind of like Six Flags Over Texas, but with a giant banana.
(Via Cynical-C.)
