December 2009
50 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Shel Silverstein (18) Spring Heeled Jack (10) Brent Holmes & Marty the Moose (8) Barenaked Ladies (6) Sandra Boynton (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 1st
November 2009
50 posts
Nov 30th
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Nov 25th
Two US senators demand publication of secret... →
That there is one of MY senators! Kudos to Sherrod Brown.
Nov 25th
Nov 25th
Has Bell Invented a "Telegraph Killer"? →
Nov 25th
Nov 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Shel Silverstein (46) Barenaked Ladies (29) They Might Be Giants (24) Sandra Boynton (22) Brent Holmes & Marty the Moose (20) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 24th
Terror in the Coop →
What is that frightens her chickens so?
Nov 24th
Nov 24th
How the H1N1 vaccine is made →
That’s a lot of eggs.
Nov 24th
The Soul of the Carrot →
Some interesting thoughts and ideas by author Michael Pollan on our diet.
Nov 24th
Car crash victim trapped in 'coma' for 23 years... →
Trying to imagine what that would be like. Glad to hear there are better tools to identify situations like this!
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
Report find wide disparities in gifted education →
drmom: Ask any child how they want to feel at school - it isn’t going to be “embarrassed for being smart.” It’s not how I wanted to feel, but I felt like I spent far too much time covering up that I was “smart.”
Nov 22nd
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The Geography of a Recession →
Time lapse map that illustrates the unemployment rate (per county) since January 2007. Yikes.
Nov 20th
Wrecked →
The world of salvaging vintage wine and champagne from shipwrecks is not one that I knew existed.
Nov 20th
Nov 20th
Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword... →
Heh. Limone.
Nov 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
The Beatles (168)  Shel Silverstein (53)  Barenaked Ladies (42)  They Might Be Giants (27)  Sandra Boynton (26)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 18th
Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
The Economics of Pinball →
How the replay probability algorithms changed over the years. And how the very nature of pinball put itself out of business.
Nov 17th
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
5 (Happy Little) Things You Didn’t Know About Bob... →
Happy little Bob Ross was a Air Force master sergeant?!
Nov 15th
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Nov 12th
Theme Park Maps →
Maps and maps and more maps. From theme parks all over the world!
Nov 10th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
The Beatles (135)  Shel Silverstein (47)  Barenaked Ladies (23)  They Might Be Giants (17)  Brent Holmes & Marty the Moose (14)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 10th
Nov 9th
How Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion →
Everything at Disney World is manufactured, even down to the music you hear between each ride. What’s amazing is how well they do it.
Nov 9th
Nov 6th
Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The... →
Damn you Higgs-Boson particles!
Nov 6th
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Nov 3rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Shel Silverstein (73)  Barenaked Ladies (46)  Sandra Boynton (31)  Ella Fitzgerald (30)  They Might Be Giants (29)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd