USA Today is carrying tips on how to not look so danged American when traveling abroad. Here’s a few tips from FP: Don’t wear T-shirts with slogans or pop-culture icons on them, unless they’re Tintin. Try wearing leather shoes! Artificially stain your teeth, or wear amusing gag teeth. Learn about geography and current events. Know […]
My co-blogger showed these to me last night, and I’m surprised she didn’t put them up here. Killer parodies of the Ready.gov pages regarding nuclear, biological, chemical (also above), explosion, and radiation threats. Update: as of 17 Nov 05, the idlewords site doesn’t seem to have any content older than August of 2003, and the […]
A big deal in Japan is now available in the US, called an “enzyme bath” – it seems to involve being buried, heated, and relaxed in gently fermenting rice bran and other enzymes. I wonder how much my mom would charge me to bury me up to my neck in the compost heap?
Apparently you can find out what D&D character you are through a short survey. A, uh, friend of mine tried it and said it was impressively accurate. I have no idea what he’s talking about. (yes, I know this is old news; I found it in the “One year ago” section of blogdex).
“A nuclear blast is an explosion with intense light and heat, a damaging pressure wave and widespread radioactive material that can contaminate the air, water and ground surfaces for miles around.” The Homeland security apparatus suggests taking cover in the event of a nuclear blast, assessing the situation, and taking appropriate action. I hate to […]
It looks like there will be lots of Text Valentines sent this year. From what I see, volume is about 25% higher than a typical weekday; all the more impressive, given that Fridays are usually relatively light.
I was interested to note that the Terrorism Preparedness stuff is really good advice for going on a date, too: 1) Be aware of your surroundings; 2) Be aware of conspicuous or unusual behavior; 3) Do not be afraid to move or leave if you feel uncomfortable or if something does not seem right; 4) […]
Those of you who don’t work in a school, don’t work in a library, or don’t have a child in school, probably haven’t heard about the Accelerated Reader program. It involves students being allowed to pick a recreational reading book from a list of pre-approved books that match their assessed reading level and then being […]
Michael Jackson’s rebuttal will be airing on Fox opposite NBC’s Must-See Thursday line-up next week. Why Fox? “because they ‘packaged it with the best sensitivity to Michael Jackson’, according to Jackson’s spokesman Stuart Backerman.” Er, yeah. Sensitivity is the watch-word over at Fox. I only hope it gets fed to Canada, so I have a […]
A list of the top 5 most popular ringtones got passed around my office recently. It came from Modtones, and turns out to be Verizon-specific. My ringtone is not available at Modtones, but I also don’t have a Verizon phone. As you might expect, a google search turns up a lot of matches, many of […]