impudent strumpet

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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Do silica gel desiccant packets get used up?

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After the Infamous Rogers Centre iPod Drowning Incident of 2012, I started collecting everyone one of those little silica gel desiccant pack...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Nanoblur

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I recently tried Nanoblur, which claims to instantly reduce the appearance of skin by changing the way light reflects off skin. Many inter...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Things They Should UNInvent: banners that overlap the body text section of a website (or web browsers that can't handle this)

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Some websites (such as Twitter and Salon ) have banner-style headers that overlap the body text area. The problem with this is if you pre...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Things They Should Invent: public birthday parties

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Sometimes people can't celebrate their birthday on their actual birthday, because the people they most want to celebrate with aren't...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Double candy buyback?

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From The Ethicist : Several dentists in our area offer to purchase candy during Halloween from their young patients for $1 per pound. Pr...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Thankful without a "to"

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I've blogged before about my non-thankfulness policy .  But it occurs to me that the things I'm thankful for are those for which the...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Things They Should Invent: standardized "I'm about to smoke on the balcony" warning

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I habitually keep my windows open when the outdoor temperature is comfortable.  I find it's more effective (and cheaper) at regulating t...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Beware of calls from 1-877-974-2547 allegedly from RBC

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I recently received a phone call from 1-877-974-2547, with the call display saying "RBC".  I bank with RBC, so I answered.  On the...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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In my readings about neuroplasticity, I came across a mention of a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which is a drawing co...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Things Torrent Trackers Should Invent: let people with invitations search

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My favourite torrent tracker recently closed, which sent people scrambling for an alternative. I was able to secure an invitation to one of ...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Things They Should Invent: standardized, legally-binding DNR tattoo

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Today's Toronto Star ethics column discusses some issues surrounding Do Not Resuscitate orders. In the final paragraph, the columnist r...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

By request: my essay-writing technique

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Conventional wisdom is that, when writing an essay, you should decide what your thesis is, determine what points best prove that thesis, use...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Secularism: ur doin it wrong

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At first I wasn't going to blog about Quebec's Charte des valeurs. I've already written many times about how assholic it is...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Why is Facebook crawling blogs?

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Shortly after I post each blog post, I get a hit from something called Facebook Bot, which statcounter says is a bot crawling my site, presu...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Trading lives to cure jealousy

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There's a theory that if you're feeling jealous of someone, you should ask yourself if you'd trade lives with that person.  (Fo...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Is there a name for the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

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In one of my very first translation classes, the prof asked us to think about how we'd translate a short English sentence into French.  ...
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Monday, September 02, 2013

The lunch money mystery

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Conventional wisdom is that you should pack your lunch from home to save money. I've never done this.  There are enough lunch options ne...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Poo(p)

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I was googling about various digestive-related things, and, since Google generally knows what I need and I don't always act like a grown...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Reconstructing Shakespeare

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Dear Prudence , My girlfriend and I are having a disagreement. I posed to her the following hypothetical situation: Would you rescue from...
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