Archive for October, 2006
links for 2006-10-25
Krazy Celtic on Fasting. “Fasting involves action, not closeting oneself away in private prayer.” (tags: faith) LRB | Terry Eagleton : Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching. A professor of English literature reviews Dawkins’ “The God Delusion.” (tags: atheism books) Fox Chase Apartments harrasses Javin out of his lease. The apartments, located in Waldorf, MD, ran him out [...]
Lost 3.01-3.03: Benjamin Linus, Fishbiscuits, and Polar Bears, Oh My!
So are you all enjoying the new LOST season so far? All pausing your video recorders and poring over screenshots of easter eggs and Googling left and right for clues? Me, I’m especially liking how LOST is able to maintain an aura of the unknown. I had feared that the increasing sci-fi-ness of the plot, [...]
links for 2006-10-24
okcalvin: Friday Feature: Photos from Dryden. Several research planes all together in one shot. That does look like a toy collection. (tags: aviation) Andy Budd::7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer (tags: design business) Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Learn more about Googlebot’s crawl of your site and more! (tags: google) AppleDefects.com. Defective [...]
Pyro Meets Batista!
Ask and You Shall Receive. Pyro, still struggling with cancer, got his wish and met his favorite pro-wrestler: Dave Batista. More on that from Now What Cat, and video here.
Amy, Washingtonian
I’m happy to announce that my fianceée is now a Washingtonian. (Well, partly a NoVAn, but that still counts as DC.) She’s landed a library job and a room near the river, and is this moment buzzing around, unpacking and moving things about. We’ll still be going up to NJ once a month or so [...]
links for 2006-10-21
Court Artist. Courtroom sketches by Art Lien, who covers the Supreme Court for NBC. (tags: dc art law) Locusts and Honey: Belief in God is Irrational (Please Read Post Before Screaming) (tags: faith) post-methodist: from Why Men Hate Going To Church. A summary of the main points of why men avoid an emasculated church. Not [...]
Random Pandorage
Since we haven’t had a photo of the cat here for a while, and some of you aren’t always watching the photostream 24/7, I give you a few photos of Pandora taken in recent weeks: Also see Pandora Dreams of Swimming.
reCaffing
Remember when I deCaffed? I was successfully off caffeine for over a year and a half after that, with only an occasional root beer or venti frappuccino in emergencies. I say this in the past tense because I went back to drinking coffee in January, thanks to the pressure of my ventures into entrepreneurship, plus [...]
links for 2006-10-20
No evidence of ice on the moon. Lunar ice is not as abundant as was theorized. No hydrogen moon drives for you. (tags: space) Scientists Announce Creation of Atomic Element, the Heaviest Yet. Element 118, unofficially named “ununoctium.” (tags: science) We Were Trapped by Radioactive Fallout. Story of the Castle Bravo test controllers who weathered [...]
Recent Brushes with Fame (Kind of)
Moose Some nights it’s faster to walk home from the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station than it is to wait for the train, so that’s what I did Monday. As I walked by a slightly unkempt, middle-aged man limping with a cane near 3rd and Mass Ave NW, he very nearly jumped in surprise away from [...]