• Item: Health Canada says no one should take more than 2,000 IU of Vitamin D per day, but one study says the average vitamin D researcher personally takes 5,000 IU.  A day of sunbathing is like taking 10,000 IU.
• Item: Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq (under orders from Prime Minister Harper) refuses to sign the Vienna Declaration ("criminalization ( Read more... )

(About comments at newspaper websites): "It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

- Gene Weingarten (who has won two Pulitzer prizes but I had never heard of him before this mention).  RSS added, but I'm not sure whether I'll keep it.

Google says I have 61 friends, which makes sense since LJ says I have 62 including myself.  But LJ's list includes five former journals that no longer exist, so really it doesn't add up.  Google's list includes Brad Fitzpatrick twice (once at LJ, once at Facebook even though I'm not his friend there).  It lists "Ka Crow" who no longer exists (and just_the_ash ( Read more... )

Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun:

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Besides the ridiculously large number of syllables attached to so few beats, one can also appreciate the bizarre fingering on some of the piano chords (Minchin gave up piano lessons after three years and is now mostly self-taught).

Further info: Wikipedia entry, lyrics.

Hat tip: Pharyngula.

The children’s book section at my local Border’s has been voted “Most Likely to be a Total Fucking Disaster” for three years running.- Rands

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The website WorldMeets.US is frequently quoted in the RSS feed I get from TheModerateVoice.com, so I finally went there for a look.  At the bottom they mention the various newspapers they use for ( Read more... )

I don't really have a website.  I used to have Furtopia, but I messed up and my account was frozen.  I used to be a paid member here at LiveJournal, but I had to cut costs.  For a while it seemed I didn't "really" need a website since I could just embed images directly in journal posts, but LiveJournal recently (and silently) stopped allowing that ( Read more... )

Last weekend the temperature dipped below freezing again, making May '09 the eighth month in a row with freezing temperatures.  I didn't realize I was signing up for that much winter...  According to NASA, my region (between lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron) had "near-normal" temperatures last year, even though the local meteorologists said last ( Read more... )

Some stuff from Boing Boing:

Twenty-seven minutes of nonstop cursing (NSFW)

Three minutes of almost-cursing (NSFW)

Barack Obama - cursing! (NSFW, especially if you work in the West Wing).

Shakespeare's "25 thinges abovt me" meme (possibly NSFW if your employer is an extreme prude).

The Onion does cursing properly (NSFW, unless your employer ( Read more... )

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I was daydreaming recently about attending the FurAffinity United convention (9-12 August 2007, Central NJ).  I imagined sitting in the lobby with my laptop, whistling for several hours until something decent finally came out.  Of course, that would never happen.  ("Creating a public disturbance", yadda yadda ( Read more... )