It’s time for people to roll out their best-of lists for the year, so here’s one from my excellent co-worker Angie B. She has excellent taste in books for teens, so I plan to read each of her top ten books for teens in 2002 (in order by author): Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Feed […]
Entertaining Victorian science experiments. “Mad! Mad, they called me!! But I’ll show them…” Might be a good companion to the extremely entertaining graphic novel, “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” or any assorted steampunk fun.
Kroger is trying out a fingerprint id system to link you to a store credit account. It’s being tested in Texas. I don’t know which is stranger: the idea that Americans would flock to this sort of freaky digital (ha ha) identification scheme, or the possible return of grocery store credit. It’s very retro-future.
The LA Public Library’s collection of historic menus is available online! New York Public Library’s immense menu collection is still not digital, but other interesting things are.
A (short) profile in The Stranger on a vocal advocate of the Harm Reduction school of thought on the drug war mentions that King County, WA, govenment officials are fairly accepting of this philosophy (as is the local ACLU)- who knew? On other legal fronts, this week’s Last Days column has updates on the fight […]
I read the executive summary, and was fascinated on the differing rates at which certain health web sites were filtered. Breast cancer, that favorite example of useful information that is filtered proffered by the anti-filter crew, had the lowest rate of being “accidentally” filtered in its category. Perhaps even because it had been a favorite […]
The Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a study yesterday, concluding “Internet filters most frequently used by schools and libraries can effectively block pornography without significantly impeding access to online health information – but only if they aren’t set at their most restrictive levels. As filters are set at higher levels they block access […]
Tapeworm birth-control: “It’s all right, honey; I’m taking my parasite every day.” An interesting twist with this one is that it works for men or women. I’ll have to ask my contraceptive experts if they know anything about this.
Thrift + Craft = thriftdeluxe!
I’m at one of those places in life where almost every song seems SIGNIFICANT and MEANINGFUL. Yes, I’m turning into a teenager again. So far my top hits are “No Such Thing” by John Mayer and “Giant Step” as sung by Taj Mahal. If I take notes, I could make a mix CD to commemorate […]