| Mitch Hedberg WikiQuote page |
Mitch Hedberg (24 Feb 1968 - 30 Mar 2005), American Comedian |
| What You'll Wish You'd Known | About
what high school kids should know about life to make the most out of it
and their eventual careers. |
| Words
of the Year (1990-2003) |
Pretty
interesting... What's 'chad,' though? I guess it's an American
thing. |
| Mitch Hedberg WikiQuote page | Mitch Hedberg (24 Feb 1968 - 30 Mar 2005), American Comedian |
| Words
of the Year (1990-2003) |
Pretty
interesting... What's 'chad,' though? I guess it's an American
thing. |
| Damn
Coke |
This
is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.. read the first
four posts |
| Happy
New Year from CTRL+ALT+DEL |
Happy
new year, everyone... |
| Was God in This Disaster? | "Turning
to
both Judaism and Buddhism for solace, the author meditates on God's
role in the tsunami [of Dec. 2004] tragedy." "I don't believe that a mass disaster, in and of itself, tells us anything about God. I don't believe in a God who punishes through disaster. The disaster is." I'm linking directly to page two of this article. Read page one if you want, but I thought page two was much more interesting. |
| Blind
Painter |
Check
out these paintings by Esref Armagan. He's been blind his entire
life. |
| Escape
From the Universe |
About
how we can escape into another universe when this one dies it's heat
death. Sounds like it would make a boring article, but it's
actually
well written and entertaining/interesting. |
| Crowds Smarter than Individuals | "In
one
experiment, participants were asked to estimate the number of
jelly beans in a jar. The group average was 871, only 2.5 percent off
the actual figure of 850." The part about the submarine is really incredible. |
| A Saturn
moon with echoes of Earth Titan's complex and strange world revealed |
Remember the scene in Gatacca when Vincent (Ethan Hawke) explains to Irene (Uma Thurman) Titan, the moon that he will be visiting, by blowing smoke into a wine glass? We now know what's under that smoke: "[A]n alien expanse that has many of the hallmarks of a young Earth before the rise of organic life some 3 billion years ago." |
| High Trans-fat diet could harm the brain | "trans-fats,
such
as those found in margarine, [...] are the worst culprits" "damage in [...] the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory." |
| Legal rights of computers | "It's time to start thinking about how we might grant legal rights to computers." |