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I want to repost an article I found, written by Stephen T. Asma. The original story can be found here.
Disclaimer: this is a repost, and nothing in it is written by me. Copyright to whoever is due (either the author or the The Chronicle of higher Education, I’m not sure).

Green Guilt

Recently while I was brushing my teeth, my 6-year-old son scolded me for running the water too long. He severely reprimanded me, and at the end of his censure asked me, with real outrage, “Don’t you love the earth?” And lately he has taken up the energy cause, scampering virtuously around the house turning off lights, even while I’m using them. He seems as stressed and anxious about the sins of environmentalism as I was about masturbation in the days of my Roman Catholic childhood. Read the rest of this entry »

he’s considering turning Temeraire -think Naomi Novic, forget Christopher-I’m-a-talentless-teen-with-a-well-connected-dad Paolini- into a TV series.

This series will have these major advantages:

• dragons
• the hottest uniforms in military history
• epic war from before the trenches
• dragons
• dragons as air force during the napoleontic war
• I mean… dragons!!!

I’m all for this. Laurence will be so sweet and Temeraire will be awesome!

Source article here …

there is more…

Published originally here

— a must for every self-proclaimed geek —
(if you are to believe this article)

Alek has been raising awareness for Celiac’s disease, an autoimmune disease which affects his kids. He has been doing this by rigging his gruesome abundance of christmas lights and making them controlled by buttons on his webpage.

Please try for yourself (and donate! Every amount of any currency helps)

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These are some examples from a book. It’s about 19th century ways to determine if someone is really deceased.

–Christian Friedrich Nasse’s Thanatometer was a long thermometer that was inserted into the stomach, supposedly measuring a core body temperature that would determine if life was possible (and published in 1841);

–The (Englishman’s) Barnett scalding death cure, which recommended burning the skin of the arm to see if it blistered (no blister/no life);

–the German Middeldorph invented a heart flag, a needle device that would be thrust into the heart, which if functioning would trigger something or other that would cause a flag to be released at the top of the needle (I can’t stop laughing at this one);

–Christian August Struwe’s interesting Lebenspruefer (1805) was an electrical device that delivered a dual shock to the eye and lip, the logic here being that if the person was still alive that there would be a resulting twitch;

–the nameless tobacco enema, which blew smoke…(delivered in the beginning by breath through a tube and improved later to replacing the lips with a bellows, this secondary improvement by Antoine Louis2 and furthered by Dr. P.J.B. Previnaire’s much more powerful anal tobacco furnace (This is a nice invention for my Eberron artificer). )

–Leon Collongues believed that he could hear the capillary functions of a possibly-dead person’s fingers if placed in his ear;

–Jules Antoine Josat3 invented a nipple-pincher (”pince-mamelon”) life-rejuvenation device, operating on the assumption that a deeply sedated person could not resist a strong pinch of the nipple and would have to wake up if alive.

I love that century! But I’m really grateful I was born in this time, because although the ideas are brilliant, they are also often very sinister.

For more information – and very interesting articles in general – go here

I have a couple of websites I visit everyday. Those are Deviant Art, FARK and I can has cheezburger.
The latter has a lot of sister sites as well, containing pictures stapled with macros, and although nothing is quite as funny as macroed cats, macroed celebrities sometimes come close.
And this is why:

Sean Connery (no really! Sean Connery.)

I think the last picture is funnier without caption though. A post about it will follow, I assure you.

And yes, I know people will condemn me for thinking a macroed cat the funniest thing. But I don’t care. As long as I can has cheezburger! Viva le cheezburger! Viva la revolucion!

This growing collection of mugshots is well-worth your time!
They have categories like Hollywood, Gangsters and Historical but also a mugshot of the week, featuring random people, not necessarily famous before they got arrested.

• Mugshot of the week
• Arresting Images