Asides

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I love com­ic strips. “That shirt’s got more holes than a Goth chick­’s nose.” I might actu­al­ly use that line some­day.

Get Fuzzy by Dar­by Con­ley, August 26, 2012 Via @GoComics

House­cats are known to be aloof, but cat-titude reach­es new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bit­ing­ly hilar­i­ous com­ic strip from car­toon­ist Dar­by Con­ley. Avail­able dai­ly and Sun­day and appear­ing in 650 newsp…

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This is kin­da cool. So there are twen­ty moments in a minute?

Do we expe­ri­ence life in 3 sec­ond chunks? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Ever won­dered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 sec­onds, accord­ing to a new study of the post-com­pe­ti­tion embraces of Olympic ath­letes. But the long answer is more pro­found. A hug last…

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I would say that with the excep­tion of rule #4, this 100% applies to church sound guys. But most of them are sin­gle and are fans of rule #4 as well. 🙂

Sound booth guest rules. — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

Be Happy

I hate jour­nal­ing, but I’ve seen find­ings like this so fre­quent­ly that I might have to give it a try.

The most proven tech­nique for increas­ing long term hap­pi­ness: — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…

Donations Buy Access… Why Not Taxes?

I love the idea of a din­ner for the top tax­pay­ers. That’s bril­liant. If dona­tions buy access, then why not tax­es?

Sen­tences to pon­der

…I find it remark­able that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay­ing my tax­es. When I fill out my tax­es, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona­tions have thank you notes attached. But for t…

Global Crime

How inter­est­ing.

Crime in Europe and the U.S.

Has there been a “rever­sal of for­tune”? Pao­lo Buo­nan­no, Francesco Dra­go, Rober­to Gal­biati, and Giulio Zanel­la step into these treach­er­ous waters with a new paper (pdf): Con­trary to com­mon per­cep­tions…

XKCD Gets 4 Stars

The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

< Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1098/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/star_ratings.png. Select­ed Comics. Search co…

Every Woman and Child For Themself

Fas­ci­nat­ing tid­bit. Does read­ing this increase your ten­den­cy towards egal­i­tar­i­an­ism or com­ple­men­tar­i­an­ism? And how does it make you think about author­i­ty and coer­cion?

More data on sur­vival dur­ing mar­itime dis­as­ters

From Mikael Elin­der and Oscar Erix­son (pdf, final PNAS gat­ed ver­sion here): It’s a wide­spread notion that women and chil­dren are saved first in mar­itime dis­as­ters. The sys­tem­at­ic evi­dence of this come…

Faith Helps

When I tell stu­dents that there are objec­tive and prac­ti­cal ben­e­fits to faith they seem sur­prised. But that’s the nature of truth — when you make choic­es based upon real­i­ty, those choic­es tend to work out bet­ter. 

What can we all learn from reli­gion — whether we believe or not? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…

Amazing Story

I usu­al­ly don’t like sports sto­ries, but this was remark­ably com­pelling.

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