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No packages from Japan to USA due to new TSA rules?
A friend of mine just linked me to this announcement that Japan Post will no longer accept US-bound airmail packages over 1 pound because they'll be stopped at the airlines in order to comply with new TSA antiterrorism measures.
This is clearly a response to the toner cartridge bombs a few weeks ago. I'm trying to figure out whether this is because ( Read more... ) -
Dreams...
Mmph. I had another one of those "back in college" dreams this morning. These aren't good dreams; they're usually full of anxiety and housing issues.
In this one I was, for some strange reason involving money and it seeming like a good idea to my parents, living in a 4-person dorm room: with my brother and both of my parents. It was horrendously ( Read more... ) -
An incredible video game ad
I'm not big on FPS games, I'm not at all up to date on gaming systems or gaming trends, and I'm often not all that big on multiplayer games. However, I just saw this advertisement in a post at Shakesville, and it is enough a thing of beauty that I want to share it with everybody.
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Politics
I spent my day Saturday going over my local ballot (the vote411.org ballot is quite handy, although the questions they asked weren't as revealing as I might have liked).
I live in Florida right now. We have a three-way race going on for our Senator. (Well, a lot more ways than that, but three major candidates.) If the polls are to be believed, ( Read more... ) -
Braintrust: Calling/Business Card Editing
As probably many of you know, I got a bunch of cards made up at VistaPrint a number of years ago through their 250 for "free" (something like $6 S&H) if you use one of their small selection of preset designs (which change) and allow them to print a reasonably subtle ad on the back of the card. The idea was to have something I could hand out at ( Read more... ) -
Are these headline writers incompetent because of their genetics?
Article title in The Post Chronicle: Liberal Gene Discovered: Is Being Liberal Decided At Birth?
Article title at their linked source, ScienceBlog: Researchers find a ‘liberal gene’
Original article title: Friendships Moderate an Association between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology
A choice quote from the abstract: Here, we ( Read more... ) -
More About My Hair
[If this is too frequent/uninteresting, feel free to filter these posts out on the "hair" tag if your aggregator allows it. If it doesn't, complain to the manufacturers for giving you a crap product.]
I've spent much of the last couple of days reading around at CurlTalk and learning more about how curly hair works and how the whole CurlyGirl/no-poo ( Read more... ) -
Why Seventy-Six Trombones?
For some reason I can't remember at all, shortly after I crawled into bed last night shield_toad111 started singing "76 trombones". It must have made sense at the time, because I said something to the effect of "I was thinking that too!" But then I said those fateful words, "Why 76?"
There followed a few minutes of speculation (76 is a strange number. It ( Read more... ) -
Hair Experiment Part IV: Dry
Well, that was fun.
At a bit under 7 hours, I'm close enough to completely dry to call it done. If I really feel for it, I can still find some dampness.
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