Tidbits
In case Charmin' is too rough for your delicate bottom, Waitrose of London has come up with a quilted version with cashmere fibers. The ad claims, that "it is designed to put a smile on your face." To which the Consumerist responds dryly, "No matter what we're using when we're doing our duty, it's unlikely to make us smile."
If you plan on traveling to London, THIS is a good resource of modern-day as well as historical London.
The government experimenting on it's citizens-AKA atrocities the government has perpetrated on its own citizens-is nothing new. "U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of experiments in and/or by the United States-studies that often involved making healthy people sick."
Here are some of the ten tips for using social media midnfully by Tiny Buddha: Know your intentions; Be your authentic self; Be Honest and Kind; Experience now, share later; Be active, not reactive; Respond with your full attention; Use mobile social media sparingly; Practice letting go.
Turing Papers Saved by a donation by the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund. "The collection of scientific papers and material relating to [the founding father of modern computing] Alan Turing's work on wartime codebreaking was in danger of going abroad. The aim was to save the papers for the museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, where Turing worked breaking codes during the war."
"He heard nothing from his son for several days-and then the phone rang. The college boy was in the laundry room of his dorm, in a panic. 'Which goes in the hot water, colored stuff or white stuff?' he asked his father. 'Mom told me and now I can't remember. And nobody here seems to know either.'" This is a review of Crazy U by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience.
When I saw the title Unfit for Democracry? and that the article pertained to the Arab world, I was immediately outraged, expecting a typical bigoted op-ed. Then I saw that it was by Nicholas Kristof and settled in for a read. "We Americans spout bromides about freedom. Democracy campaigners in the Middle East have been enduring unimaginable tortures as the price of their struggle-at the hands of dictators who are our allies-yet they persist. Prof. William Easterly of New York University proposes a standard of reciprocity: 'I don’t support autocracy in your society if I don’t want it in my society.' That should be our new starting point. I’m awed by the courage I see, and it’s condescending and foolish to suggest that people dying for democracy aren’t ready for it." If India's history is any indication of success, then the Gandhian nonviolent struggle does work.
"Every time I point my TV remote, out jumps Dame Judi Dench. Dame J's sweet little face, sturdy little person and slanted sapphire eyes always toss us such a cozy frisson that we forget the long, brilliant theatrical career she laid down long before these relatively piddling TV and movie triumphs. She's wry, dry, sly-even shy when it comes to showing her stuffing in this new mini-memoir And Furthermore."
Samples of perfumes celebrities use, including the Queen (QEII).
While Her Majesty's government was busy oppressing and destroying Indians in India by her tacit approval, Victoria was busy enjoying a relationship, er, companionship with a former servant turned advisor, Abdul Karim, an Indian. His lost diary carefully preserved by relatives in Pakistan has now been unveiled. (For those of you who don't know, India was much, much bigger before the British arrived.)
A side-by-side comparison of Oscar gowns between a celebrity wearing it versus a model reveals that the gowns on the normal-body-type celebrity imbued with an engaging personality always, always wins over a stick-thin model with vacant looks.
If you plan on traveling to London, THIS is a good resource of modern-day as well as historical London.
The government experimenting on it's citizens-AKA atrocities the government has perpetrated on its own citizens-is nothing new. "U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of experiments in and/or by the United States-studies that often involved making healthy people sick."
Here are some of the ten tips for using social media midnfully by Tiny Buddha: Know your intentions; Be your authentic self; Be Honest and Kind; Experience now, share later; Be active, not reactive; Respond with your full attention; Use mobile social media sparingly; Practice letting go.
Turing Papers Saved by a donation by the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund. "The collection of scientific papers and material relating to [the founding father of modern computing] Alan Turing's work on wartime codebreaking was in danger of going abroad. The aim was to save the papers for the museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, where Turing worked breaking codes during the war."
"He heard nothing from his son for several days-and then the phone rang. The college boy was in the laundry room of his dorm, in a panic. 'Which goes in the hot water, colored stuff or white stuff?' he asked his father. 'Mom told me and now I can't remember. And nobody here seems to know either.'" This is a review of Crazy U by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience.
When I saw the title Unfit for Democracry? and that the article pertained to the Arab world, I was immediately outraged, expecting a typical bigoted op-ed. Then I saw that it was by Nicholas Kristof and settled in for a read. "We Americans spout bromides about freedom. Democracy campaigners in the Middle East have been enduring unimaginable tortures as the price of their struggle-at the hands of dictators who are our allies-yet they persist. Prof. William Easterly of New York University proposes a standard of reciprocity: 'I don’t support autocracy in your society if I don’t want it in my society.' That should be our new starting point. I’m awed by the courage I see, and it’s condescending and foolish to suggest that people dying for democracy aren’t ready for it." If India's history is any indication of success, then the Gandhian nonviolent struggle does work.
"Every time I point my TV remote, out jumps Dame Judi Dench. Dame J's sweet little face, sturdy little person and slanted sapphire eyes always toss us such a cozy frisson that we forget the long, brilliant theatrical career she laid down long before these relatively piddling TV and movie triumphs. She's wry, dry, sly-even shy when it comes to showing her stuffing in this new mini-memoir And Furthermore."
Samples of perfumes celebrities use, including the Queen (QEII).
While Her Majesty's government was busy oppressing and destroying Indians in India by her tacit approval, Victoria was busy enjoying a relationship, er, companionship with a former servant turned advisor, Abdul Karim, an Indian. His lost diary carefully preserved by relatives in Pakistan has now been unveiled. (For those of you who don't know, India was much, much bigger before the British arrived.)
A side-by-side comparison of Oscar gowns between a celebrity wearing it versus a model reveals that the gowns on the normal-body-type celebrity imbued with an engaging personality always, always wins over a stick-thin model with vacant looks.