I saw gloves in the store the other day that would let you use your iPhone. But they were sort of thin and not well lined, which didn't make them ideal as actual gloves.

Instructables to the rescue! Apparently, you can sew a few stitches of conductive thread onto the finger of your glove, and make them totally iPhone/ touchscreen usable! I'm ( Read more... )

I'm done! I think I did well! I love everyone :) In that exhausted sort of way.

Now, to solemnly bring my towel (in honor of Towel Day) down to the grocery store, studiously ignore the "you are insane" looks, shop for stir-fry ingredients, and snuggle with cayenne and microhylidaeI leave you with this thought: wouldn't life be better if we all had more silliness in ( Read more... )

Does the idea of transactive memory mean that people who have more intimate ties with others increase their memory capacity? Could working closely with or being more positively-emotionally-entangled with others actually improve your memory?

So apparently, blue food coloring helps recovery from spinal cord injury in rats. The only side effect is that it turns the rats blue:


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One of those things I hate is the waste of good food. Apparently, as I learned when walking a woman over to Balducci's in the rain (her umbrella died and she was old and limping, so I slowed down and walked with her there, and she was all ranty about this) -- Balducci's throws out all of its food at the end of the night -- it doesn't donate it to ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman once wrote that there wasn't a word for that feeling you get when you look at someone you used to love, and remember how it was.

I thought maybe "solestalgia" would be right, and osirusbrisbane suggested the simpler "lostalgia" as a counter, but neither quite gets the "love" notes in there. Ideas?

Have you seen Adam Sandler's Bedtime Stories, with its huge, googly-eyed hamster Bugsy? Totally a full quarrter of the comedic value of the movie. Anyway, a mate for Bugsy:


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It seems lately that with Buffy, the Twilight phenomenon, and other recent writing hits, the vampire-myth is on a sort of cultural ascension.

Hence, an amusing video mocking the whole thing:

Once You Go Bat... (embedded below)

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The rise of vampire-lust makes sense, of course -- who doesn't have a bit of being attracted to danger? Also, every ( Read more... )

I've rediscovered that if you bend your knees more, you're more stable. So when the Wii Fit tells me to assume the yoga "tree" pose, bend your knee more -- you get more stability and power from that leg.

Sometimes the reviewers are right. Twilight was badly directed, and Robert Pattinson overacted.

Oh, the tumble of a hype! The fall of Robert Pattinson straight off my "hot" list! Sniff.