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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Laura K. Pahl is a Plagiarist -- This is one of the funniest blog postings I've seen. Even if it turns out to be made up, it just gives me warm fuzzies to think about plagiarists getting their comeuppance.

Monday, March 28, 2005
New Burger King breakfast offering outdoes Whopper -- I know where I'll be getting breakfast tomorrow. Since I can never decide between sausage and bacon, Burger King is giving me both, along with double helpings of a cheese omelet.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
S.F. schools ban post-match handshakes -- I always thought the post-game handshakes were one of the redeeming features of athletics. Learning teamwork is important, too -- but learning sportsmanship (sportspersonship?) seems just as important to me. And here I never thought I'd find an issue on which I could support athletic boosters and coaches...

Saturday, March 19, 2005
Going to the Bathroom is a bizarre, rambling rant by some disgruntled prof who doesn't like students getting up and leaving to use the restroom. I always thought that once people left hgh school, the business about having to ask to go to the bathroom was over. Isn't it easier to teach people who aren't squirming in discomfort?

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
How to Destroy the Earth -- No, really. Not blow up all the people. Not exterminate all life. How to render Earth a non-planet. Cool stuff.


Cops nab drunken driving suspect with revealing license plate -- Yep, it was a NoDak driving with the custom plate TIPSY. NoDak cops have time on their hands, so it isn't wise to catch their attention like that.


Third-Grader Commutes to School by Mule -- Yep, you guessed right. Welcome to North Dakota.


Bush: Hezbollah could enter Lebanon's political mainstream -- This story is unremarkable except for the quote from the Bush Administration: "There is no place for an armed militia in a democratic society." Apparently someone doesn't share Bush's faith in the Second Amendment....

Monday, March 14, 2005
A fascinating new map of urban areas around the world, generated by researchers at Columbia University, graphically illustrates the growth of towns and cities. For example, a few dots on the coast account for the cities of Australia while Japan is almost one huge mass of urbanization. The paucity of cities in Africa is intriguing, though this is partly the result of one of the data sources (satellite images of city lights at night). The map also displays more urbanization in central Asia than I would have expected. Fascinating stuff.


N.D. Officials Fighting Binge Drinking -- I lived in North Dakota for more than a decade, beginning when I was 11. I never understood why parents thought that such a cesspool of drugs, drinking, sex, and violence was a good place to raise a family. I often got the impression that either the parents liked the idea of 16-year-olds getting drunk or stoned every weekend (something the article hints at), or they were trying to justify making a living decision that was best for themselves but terrible for their children. Repeat after me: If you want your kids to be drunks with three kids by age 21, raise them on a farm. Oh, and just for good measure: the entire state looks like ass -- a landscape of yellow and brown with nary a hill or tree in sight. There's a reason ND is the least visited state in the Union.


The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters -- I've always liked the surrealist quality of 1970s Soviet propaganda. There's a certain subtlety to many of these posters that's so different from American anti-drug or anti-tobacco campaigns.


Heroes of Atheism Mugs -- At first I thought these would be cool. Then I saw that apparently secularism means butt-ugly. How come believers get all the rainbows?

Saturday, March 12, 2005
Discourse.net has a great summary of the baffling decision by King George to withdraw the US from the Consular Convention, a core principle of international law that protects US diplomats and citizens abroad. See "The Politics of the Withdrawal from the Optional Protocol to the Consular Convention"

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