Friday, March 26, 2010

Why rubber bands are so important

Greetings.

Jewish date:  11 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Ṣaw).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, Spinach Festival Day.

NOTE:  In observance of Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, I hereby declare the making up of Metric Mitochondria Day, celebrating those symbionts without which we could not exist.  The first Metric Mitochondria Day will be celebrated April 16, 2010, with subsequent celebrations every 100 days.


Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Suddenly, George understood what the”:
funny pictures of cats with captions
Enjoy, share the weirdness, and Shabbath shalom.

Aaron

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Beware of midnight knitters

Greetings.

Jewish date:  9 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Ṣaw).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Houdini Day, World Tuberculosis DayAda Lovelace Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Take Action: No stolen elections in Sudan | Save Darfur” and “ColorOfChange.org:  Tell the GOP: Stop inciting and supporting hate”.

Questionably worthy cause of the day:  “A Ticket For Rush!”.  (Submitted by Barry.)  Apparently Rush Limbaugh said on the air that if health care reform passed, he would go to Costa Rica.  This site is trying to raise money for his ticket.  While I would not be saddened by Limbaugh leaving the United States, I do not wish to inflict him on another country.

Julia Hopson of Knit Wits, Penzance, Cornwall ...Image of someone who is probably not the guilty party via Wikipedia
Today’s weird thing is Salty Knits, the Web-site of someone who in the middle of the night goes around a town in New Jersey and knits things on trees and stop signs and such.  (If you are going to do something wrong, at least do something creatively and intelligently wrong so that people will at least begrudgingly admire it.)  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and do not do this at home, at least if your neighbors do not have a sense of humor.

Aaron
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

WE ARE THE BORG. YOUR LEGOS WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

Greetings.

Jewish date:  8 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Ṣaw).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  World Meteorological Day, Toast Day, American Diabetes Association Alert Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Protect the Flat-tailed Horned Lizard - The Petition Site”, “Health Insurance Reform: Finish the Job | Senator Harry Reid, Nevada - HarryReid.com”, and “Urge Congress to Increase Funding for Emergency Food Assistance - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:
  • Still seething over bailouts”:  There are some good ideas for how to handle bailouts in this article.  I particularly like the notion that executives should have to pay the company if they do a bad job.
Borg starshipsImage of an alien craft determined to assimilate our Legos via Wikipedia
Today’s weird thing is the Brickshelf Gallery of Star Trek ships modeled in Legos.  Whoever created this has a lot more free time than probably most people.  The Borg cube is especially good.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Beware of Russian ASCII cats

Russian Troops under Suvorov Crossing the Alps...Image which Zemata somehow thought was relevant via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  7 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Ṣaw).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  International Goof Off Day, World Water Day.


Worthy cause of the day:  “MoveOn.org Political Action: Get It Done”.


Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “1968 ASCII Animation from Russia”.  I have no idea whatsoever why they made this.  Maybe they were just goofing off.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Beware of short Daleks

Greetings.

Jewish date:  4 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Wayyiqra’).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  Poultry Day.


Worthy causes of the day:  “Save the Internet: Take Action!:  Stop the Great Internet Rip-Off”, “American Heart Association - Reinventing Healthcare:  Time to Act: Tell Your Representative to "Vote YES"”, “Heart Disease and Stroke. You’re the Cure.:  Tell your Senator NOW is the time to protect South Carolina kids”, and “Save BioGems: Take Action: Stop Pebble Mine”.


Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing, which should be instantly understandable to all Doctor Who fans, is “BBC budget gets drastically slashed”.
Humorous Pictures
Note that if things ever get this bad, they can always free up money by getting rid of their news division, which is a waste of money anyway, given its propensity towards publishing fiction about Israel.  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and Shabbath shalom.

Aaron
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Beware of people with land lines connected to their pockets

* Mission: STS-41-B * Film Type: 70mm * Title:...Irrelevant image which Zemata suggested but which nevertheless is cool via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  2 Nisan 5770 (Parashath Wayyiqra’).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  Submarine Day.




Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is the Retro Phone Handset.  Now instead of being one of those people who seems to be talking to no one, you can look like you have a land line connected to your pocket.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Beware of linguistic change

Inflation adjusted percentage increase in mean...Image which Zemata claimed was relevant just to drive me crazy via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  26 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Wayyaqhel-Fequdhe).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Middle Name Pride Day, Girl Scout Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Save BioGems: Take Action: Protect the Spirit Bear”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Babel 2.0”, a fairly bizarre science-fiction story about linguistic change.  Somebody get me some of the technology described therein; there about a dozen or twenty languages which would make some sense for me to learn…  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and Shabbath shalom.

Aaron
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Beware of Windows 98 and Windows XP sounds

Greetings.

Jewish date:  24 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Wayyaqhel-Fequdhe).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  International Day of Awesomeness, Learn What Your Name Means Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “action.firedoglake.com | Tell the Senate: Pass Direct Student Lending Now!” and “End International Violence Against Women - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Windows 98 Jam”, a song composed entirely of Windows 98 and Windows XP sounds:

This may be the most awesome thing to ever come out of Windows.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Beware of algebraic exegesis

Greetings.

Jewish date:  23 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Wayyaqhel-Fequdhe).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  Unique Names Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Alliance for Justice:  Call for Investigation of Missing Torture Emails”, “MoveOn.org Political Action: Tell the party establishment to stay out”, and “CARE:  Voices Against Violence”.

Today’s news and commentary:
title page of the 1865 edition of Lewis Carrol...Image via Wikipedia
Today’s weird thing is “Algebra in Wonderland”, which claims that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll parodies mathematical concepts which were new in Carroll’s day.  I have no idea whether the author is correct, but at least it makes for interesting reading if you understand something of mathematics.   Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Beware of creatures leaving tracks in the snow

Greetings.

Jewish date:  21 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Wayyaqhel-Fequdhe).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  Namesake Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Tell Obama: Let us fight for the public option.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Snow Tracking”.
Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Beware of multicolored flowers

A sample of some of the pictographs used and c...Image which Zemata thought was relevant for absolutely no apparent reason via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  18 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Ki Thissa’).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  March Forth – Do Something Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Tell the FDA to Update Nutrition Label Info - The Petition Site”, “DemocracyForAmerica.com » Become a Citizen Co-Sponsor”, This is how we stop Blackwater for good.“”, and “Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) | Tell Democrats We Have Their Backs”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Rainbow Roses”.  These are not a breed, but rather specially treated flowers.  I had no idea they could work such an effect by injecting a plant with dyes.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Beware of Firefox crashing

Greetings.

Jewish date:  16 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Ki Thissa’).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Dr. Seuss’s Birthday, Read Across America Day, Old Stuff Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Take Action: Help stop expanded logging in the Tongass”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Firefocks has Crashed”:
funny pictures of cats with captions
Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Beware of the known universe

Percentage of advancing glaciers in the Alps i...Image Zemata thought was relevant via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  15 ’Adhar 5770 (Parashath Ki Thissa’).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  National Surf and Turf Day, National Pig Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “MoveOn.org Political Action: Strip insurers of their antitrust exemption”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird cool thing is “The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See”, which gives some perspective on the size of things.  Enjoy and share the weirdness coolness.

Aaron
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