A dear friend pointed me at this cool language comparison survey. I haven’t fired up IE (which it says it requires) to try it out yet, so I don’t know whether Icelandic is one of the languages they’re measuring.

Artoyz products look really cool, but the site is taxing my French vocab. They’re expensive for toys, but cheap for art.

One of these days, the Elgin Marbles are probably going to be gone from the British Museum, but it’s seemed like that for a long time now. Everything old is new again.

A fridge for off-the-grid, or even for when you need a littler fridge than is available. I wonder if it works in humid places? Commentary on BoingBoing points out some Quaker and Amish predecessors.

I looked up two words today: Modal: a sort of fabric which I had never heard of before I bought my new shirt and Spinel: I got a reproduction of a ring that’s in the Museum of London. The ring originally set with a spinel, mine is set with a garnet.

Not just because your socks will go all green, but you may find something extra in your luggage. Yikes!

BC serial killer/pig farmer – sorry, accused serial killer/pig farmer – Robert Pickton may have mixed business with hobby.

Wow, O’Reilly’s Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks looks like super fun! Also, it’s got the first Internet-enabled kitchen appliances that actually make sense- a toaster that tells you about the weather, on your toast!

Okay, confession time: I’m dipping into self-help books again. The last foray was into the works of Albert Ellis, especially A Guide to Rational Living. This time it’s FlyLady‘s Sink Reflections. Interestingly enough (not really) they both touch on the same bad habits of thought that can keep a person in a non-productive cycle in […]

Religious political extremists the American Family Association are running another poll, possibly just to find out how badly tainted their mailing list got from that gay marriage poll a while back. Based on the fact that Kerry had something like 93% of the votes in the poll, I’m guessing they are mailing to a lot […]