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Saturday, August 29, 2009

How to decommercialize christmas without sacrificing anything

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But after a disastrous Christmas last year and lacklustre sales most of this year, many retailers are desperate to make up the shortfall in ...
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Do more people want to keep what they have, or do more people want more?

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Disregarding the altruistic and social justice aspects, the purely selfish aspect of my politics can be reduced to "I have some good th...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

What are you supposed to do when you hear someone scream outside?

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I'm sitting hear in my apartment with the windows open and I hear someone scream, maybe two or three times. It could be a woman or a ch...
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Why does it bother you that I'm quiet?

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Question for extroverts: I've blogged before about how when I was a kid people would say to me "You're so quiet, you never talk...

Wherein the catholic school boards solve a 40-year-old problem

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Apparently some of the catholic school boards are eliminating the uniform kilt because students are wearing them too short. I think this is...
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Women's trust is irrelevant to men's contraception

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Tangental to this : One thing I've frequently seen mentioned in discussions about the possibility of a male birth control pill is that i...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

How do psychic people know they are psychic?

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We tend to assume that other people can do what we can do. If I can read that sign over there, I assume you can read that sign over there. ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Things They Should Invent: wireless internet in laundry rooms

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Seriously, all laundromats and apartment buildings NEED this!
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Why your childless friends stopped calling

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I often see in advice columns new parents complaining that their childless friends aren't calling them as much or aren't as involved...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

xkcd knows everything

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How to fix your computer.

In case you needed just one more reason to sponsor Eddie Izzard's run

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In case the fact that Eddie Izzard is running a marathon a day for a month (while injured and insufficiently trained) to raise money for ch...

From the "things I never knew were a problem" file

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The edge of the strap of my beautiful, well-made, comfortable new sandals lands exactly on the cuticle of my big toe. Friction + cuticle = n...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Filing her nails while they're dragging the lake

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I like version far better than the original:
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Search String of the Day

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Tubals make you horny Do they? Forever, or just temporarily? Could it possibly be because you stopped the Pill after your tubal and it was...
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Brilliant Ideas That Will Never Work: Godwin's Law penalty box

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First, we make a universal standard for necessary exemptions from Godwin's Law (i.e. cases in which a comparison with nazis is appropri...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Teach me how US health care works

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Conventional wisdom is that you can't get medical care in the US unless you can pay for it. When I was a kid, they'd tell us to alw...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

How clothing standards are completely subjective

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My body is covered neck to wrist to ankle in thick, unflattering material that hides my shape. My hair is completely covered. My face is f...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Teach me about the US political process

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Logistically, legislatively, is there any reason why they couldn't just legislate a single-payer health care system into place without f...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Advanced urban navigation

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In the subway: - If you're using a token, use the token-only turnstile. Not all turnstiles have a card swiper, so leave the ones that do...
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