In this followup to a comment in jmaynard's journal, there is a link to a very interesting review of the design of the human eye. But that's not all. There is a series of essays which are quite interesting.

Of the many, a few really got my attention (these are my titles, not the author's):

Ethics and Belief in God

Science and Engineering (and Theory ( Read more... )

I don't have the cash to buy political favors or to court high society respectability, but my dog likes me and she's a higher class of people anyway. - Lee Pitts, Western humorist

A while ago I posted a bit on how there are different perceptions of some words than what there really ought to be. Now rillifane has pointed out this article which sums up the differing attitude about the name cowboy far more effectively than I did. The bit about the perception of frontier is also worth noting. Of course, the really important message isn' ( Read more... )

I wore one of the Red Shetland t-shirts today. I expected I'd eventually get some comment about it, and I did. I just got something I hadn't been expecting. The shirt I wore had this image or pair of images on it. The left (part of the) image is on the front and the right (part of the) image is on the back.

At the restaurant tonight, a lady ( Read more... )

Last night I was listening to another CD in the Spike Jones box set I bought this past Saturday. There was a tune I heard on the Dr. Demento show, but had forgotten the title. This tune, Black Bottom has no vocal but it does have a joke of sorts in it. The joke depends on knowing one way that a record can fail or be damaged. There is a point where ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I see some mention of the fictitious Cliff Yablonski and all the folks he supposedly hates. I skimmed the pages of Cliff's hatred a couple times. Some pictures were nasty. Some were just odd. Some weren't bad at all. And some maybe just dorky. It's quite a contrast between the pictures and the ranting captions.

The captions ( Read more... )

Remember grade or elementary school? It was probably grades 1-6 or maybe 1-5. Chances are you arrived in the morning, went to the right room, and aside from recess, lunch, and gym, stayed there for the day. So did the teacher. Maybe there was another person who came in for music or art once a week. But it was a one-room thing with a class of ( Read more... )