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Great animal law resource I just found
I was just looking up a book called Animal Ethics by Angus Taylor. It's a revised edition of his previous book released four years earlier in 1999 called Magpies, Morals and Monkeys, which was basically a well-written overview of standard animal rights issues and arguments. One of my professors just emailed me to say that the Animal Ethics ( Read more... ) -
I am completely addicted to The Sims
I stayed up until 5 a.m. last night to continue playing, well after Jay had wandered off to bed far past his own bedtime when his own energy levels became depleted. I don't even remember him getting up to go to work this morning and when I got up half-asleep at 10 a.m. to go pee (aka recharge my bladder levels, in Sims-speak), I looked at the ( Read more... ) -
Two incredibly stupid jokes
In the background, a couple of new yahoos on CBC radio are telling bad "definitions" jokes. The first that caught my attention was this:
Flatulence: The vehicle that comes to get you after you've been hit by a steam roller.
The next one?
Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul leaves your body and gets stuck up on your roof. -
Nap time
All five of the cats are curled up on our bed right now. Monzo's head is resting on his brother Tarwater's butt.
I'm tempted to join them. -
Kansas school board redefines science
Ouch!!!!
The standards state that high school students must understand major evolutionary concepts. But they also declare that some concepts have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology ( Read more... ) -
Free photo hosting?
For those of you who use non-LJ free photo hosting, what do you use and what are the perks / downsides to the particular service?
I'd like to post some pics and am trying to figure out which service to try out. -
13
Disclaimer: I am not a superstitious person.
I read tonight that some hotels / motels don't have rooms numbered '13' to cater to their more superstitious customers. What gets me is that '14' would just be the real '13' anyway, but with different numbers painted on it. I mean, if there's bad luck to be had, I doubt it puts on its reading glasses ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkins?
So we're getting some pumpkins tonight to carve 'em. I've never done this before, nor have I ever seen the inside of a pumpkin ( Read more... )