A study done in London compared cellphone use and seatbelt use for normal cars and 4-wheel-drive behemoths. The results will surprise noone: Results Drivers of four wheel drive vehicles were
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Youtube to the rescue
And of course the Coil video is on Youtube. Six and a half minutes long — not eight, as I had remembered, but still pretty darn long for a song
Would be scarier if they could pronounce “V”
Laibach covering Sympathy for the Devil (mp3, about 11Mb, about eight minutes long) I giggled all the way to the subway listening to this one, and then happily filed it
Mysteries of the universe
And another QOTD: The real world is a complicated place. In order to provide illustrations in a physics lesson that emphasize only a single concept, such as Newton’s Second Law
Quotation of the day for June 17, 2006
“I would also like to understand women.” – Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist, from a list of his ambitions, as told to the moderator at a recent lecture at Hong Kong University
More evidence extroverts are nuts
Extroverts adapt faster to cold, researcher says Rintamaki, a researcher at the University of Oulu in Finland who studies the effects of cold on human performance, says personality has an
Even stranger than the plush lizards
Now you really can give someone a Common Cold, should the urge strike. Giant microbes:
Good for Olivia
Via BikeToronto — Olivia Chow wants to introduce a private members’ bill to require sideguards on trucks. About time.
Still Life with Teddy
Still Life with Teddy Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I just like this one for some random reason.
Columbine, finally in bloom
Columbine Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I love this plant — so pretty.
I’m scared of it too
From the National Geographic (worth clicking through, the photo is priceless): You can lead an elephant to a treadmill, but you can’t make her walk. That’s the lesson zookeepers are
Bike commute
Smiling D and grumpy Maddy Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I happened to get home before D & Maddy yesterday so I grabbed the camera to see if I could get
Happy at the High Park playground
Happy at the High Park playground Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. A much happier photo, from our High Park trip this past weekend.
R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith
QOTD for May 2: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, author, professor at Harvard and Princeton, who died April
Are you sitting comfortably?
Even though they probably don’t know the meaning of “defecation†in Dundee, preferring a more Anglo-Saxon term pronounced in the Scottish way to rhyme with “brightâ€, the leaflet has been
Singing in public is not so fun
Singing in public is not so fun Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Maddy’s kindergarten Earth Day concert, which she’d been happily looking forward to, was on Friday. All three kindergarten classes
Tulips!
Tulips! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. No sign of the black ones yet, but we have a lovely array of white & red tulips. Apparently we DID plant them too deep
Good old Bill
Over dinner last night: M: I’m having juice with my pizza. Cuz it’s going to be a long, long time before I can have wine. Me: That’s right. Wine is
Triumphant egg-hunter
Triumphant Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. A bit belated, but here’s a picture of our easter-egg hunt. This was Take II of the hunt — I snuck outside and hid 30
Drywall!
Drywall! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Much progress in the bathroom: real, modern wiring (now mostly hidden); insulation (also now mostly hidden); plywood on the bits that will have wainscotting and