“Steve” of Village Hampden critiques the totalitarian implications of Daylight Savings Time while Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling examines the financial costs of Daylight Savings.
(Found via Financial Rounds)
In my biology class (which is the obligatory basic biology class for Honors students not majoring in any of the life sciences), we were taking apart a rotting deer carcass to collect the insects that were cleaning it out. (Apparently this is some sort of forensic technique.) All we had left was basically the skeleton, but we had to break it apart to get all the bugs. I proposed that in homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, we pick up one of the leg bones and use it to break apart the rest of the skeleton. Then I ended up on skeleton-breaking duty.
We eventually resorted to using a weighted tape dispenser (made of metal) to bash apart the spine. Anyway, here’s a couple pictures of my homage to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece:
Google News is relaying a couple dozen news reports. Centers for Disease Control has announced that rubella has been completely eradicated in the United States.
Let this be another nail in the coffin of those silly “alternative medicine” theories that cranks keep trying to foist on the gullible. Acupuncture and herbal remedies are nothing next to the power to completely eliminate a virus from an entire continent.
Turned out I needed to accept six of their great offers, and at least two of them had to be out of their three “Premium Offers”: a home satellite system, financing a car, and a VOIP system, none of which I have any desire or need for. So I guess I won’t be getting a “free” iBook after all.
I found this website that purports to be a consumer product evaluation firm. They say if you sign up for them, they’ll send you free household products and you have to give them written evaluations. They also say that if you sign up, they’ll send you a free iBook. Well, I don’t need a free iBook, but I wouldn’t mind having one.
Anyway, it turns out I have to take advantage of two of their wonderful offers to get the iBook. Fair enough. I might put some of the offers to use. But I hope this isn’t some sort of bizarre con game.
