“The Myth of Man the Killer”
Interesting stuff.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Blue M&Ms ‘mend spinal injuries'”
Mom, I just hurt my back! I’ve got to have M&Ms, lots of them. Time is of the essence! 😉
Perfect Timing
I’ve long suspected that cats are a lot more intelligent than they’re given credit for. Here’s another bit of circumstantial evidence for it. Ever since we got our Litter Robot self-cleaning litter box last year, we’ve had a minor problem with one of our cats: he doesn’t always get far enough into the globe before …
“Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government”
[…] The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property. You can invoke the God card to get away with a lot in this country — but the IRS card always trumps …
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“How many PCs are enough? 5? 10?”
Enough? There’s no such thing! 🙂 There are two laptops, a netbook, and two desktops at our place — not counting several other devices that could technically be called computers, like the iPod Touch (a small computer itself) and the two network-attached storage systems (both special-purpose Linux computers). And then there are the several dead …
“Scientists search for a 3-foot, spitting earthworm”
Only four sightings so far? Bigfoot has more than that. 🙂
“Coming soon: clothes that take photographs”
Oh great, now everybody will have to worry about dressing-room cameras and amateur paparazzi…
“Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become ‘spinster battle axes;’ ‘men usually mellow'”
Oh, GoddessJ and several of our more feminist-leaning friends should have a field day with this one.
“A woman spends 287 days choosing what to wear”
I can believe it. 🙂
“Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax”
I was born in 1970, the year after the first moon landing. Throughout my entire life, every reference I heard about it silently reinforced the assumption that mankind had been to the moon. So when I heard that some people thought that it was a hoax made in a movie studio, I was perplexed. I …