So the anti-war nuts in Berkeley have been spending their time (do they have jobs?) protesting a Marine Corps recruiting station. Their city council voted on a resolution to voice their displeasure for the post and said “If recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”1 Typically, when I hear something like [...]
Call the racism police… ‘Jena 6′ teen arrested after another school fight. A member of the group dubbed the “Jena 6″ is facing misdemeanor assault charges after a fight at his Texas high school Wednesday, police said Thursday. Everyone knows you can’t arrest a black student for attacking someone. That’s racist. You cannot even [...]
Lileks has a great column today about how it’s un-PC to love America unless you temper your comments with sufficient criticism. But. Someone somewhere is a practicing Baptist and someone somewhere else is eating a hamburger larger than you’d prefer, and other people are watching cars go around a track at [...]
Say what? According to this week’s Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke’s on the boys as the penalty for “intentional farting” is now a detention. “Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned from CRMS,” the newsletter said. “It started [...]
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Yesterday I posted about Bloomington Startup Weekend and thought that maybe the organizers should’ve done things a little differently in terms of their technorati “spamming” (linking to someone to get their attention and hope that they click on your link) but I got an email from one of the organizers who explained a little more [...]
Last night I had dinner with Kim, Hilary and Seth at some mexican place. It was tasty. My interview this morning went well. Spent a healthy portion of the time talking football (which is good). Turns out the Judge had a run-in with Bear Bryant back in the day, so that was an interesting story. The [...]
So last night, when I should have been in bed, I started up a game of Filler. It is an addicting little game. I eventually got up to a score of 63k at level 30. Try your hand at the game. Report your scores. Flash games are good for you, I swear.
I can’t decide if this is neat or really fucking bizarre: Did you know you can sell your DNA sequence to research companies looking to obtain a patent for it? In fact, the largest patenter of genetic material — New Line Genetics — will pay you at least $5,000 for the chemical [...]
So, apparently, we all have several hundred billion of Shakespeare’s atoms floating around in our bodies. Since that man was not obliterated by high explosives (thus spreading his atoms more quickly), I look forward to the day that 200 billion of my atoms are in everyone. That’d be pretty cool, really. At any rate… I’m keeping this [...]
I just… I’m at a complete loss: Probate Judge Richard Hampe said the mummified baby known as “Baby John” passed down for generations through Charles Peavey’s family must be buried because there is no DNA evidence proving kinship. There’s a picture. I… I’m speechless. (Thanks, I think, to TSCGirl for the link)
