CNN's front page this morning describes how several children have accidentally killed themselves in recent months by choking themselves and each other to get high. This is disturbing enough on the face of it, but a few particularly absurd tidbits from the articles that make you wonder about the society (that is, our society) that allowed this ( Read more... )

Ego Restored: Well, it looks like I'm going to turn out not to be a total wimp after all. I could have wished for a closer landfall, but I suppose we can't have everything.

Santorum Strikes Again: Lovely. In 2002, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), potential presidential contender in 2008 (shudder) and the man who inspired a name for the frothy mix of ( Read more... )

The pope's still dead, red ink apparently makes the baby Jesus cry, and Cookie Monster is planning to switch to a higher fiber diet.
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BLUE!!!

75-70

I was just checking CNN.com for news and ran across a headline that seemed a little anticlimactic: Thief Steals UC-Berkeley Laptop". Um, okay, like that never happens ( Read more... )

I was just hearing about a recent flap at several business schools, including Harvard, who have used the same online admissions application software. Someone discovered a way to sneak into the database and see one's own admissions status ahead of the official announcement, and they published a website with instructions. At Harvard, at least 119 ( Read more... )

I've been promising myself for months that once I finally scored a housemate and paid off the most urgent debts, I'd reward myself for my fiscal responsibility by getting myself an iMac. But, darn it, after this morning I'm suddenly not so sure.

Oh well. It took me a few months to get to like the iLamp, too.

In addition to the Beatles, I had a few other early musical passions. Probably the most embarrassing one to mention in latter years was Laura Branigan, who died the other day of a brain aneurysm.

( My first concert )

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/22/judge_upholds_free_speech_zone_but_permits_march_on_fleetcenter/
(If that link's too long for you, try this instead ( Read more... )