Here we have an article exploring pedestrian-vehicle crashes “in which the pedestrian was using headphones“. Results There were 116 reports of death or injury of pedestrians wearing headphones. The majority
Author: Robyn
The Uncool, part 1 of many
New Year’s Eve, 4pm M: Can I sleep over at [friend]’s tonight? Me: Um, you don’t want to be here with us? M: No. We’re cleaning [friend]’s stuffed animals. We
2012
And so — 2012. As usual Neil Gaiman has the best wish, which has managed to condense thoughts that took me three pages to write for my niece into a
The annual holiday health curmudgeon warning
Again it’s time for the holiday health curmudgeons to bleat at us, disregarding mental and emotional health and a warm feeling of togetherness and community in favour of carrot sticks
The Two Kinds of Nonprofit Conferences
Today I was watching Twitter hashtags from two separate events. Both were notionally on a similar topic, but the difference in tone was striking and it clarified something for me.
Casseroles are good medicine
M, singing: L, O, double-L I, P-O-P spells lollipop, lollipop That’s the only decent kind of candy, candy Man who made it musta been a dandy, dandy L, O, double-L
Unphotographable
This is a picture I did not take of a man in his late 50s in a beat-up burgundy car with all the windows down, driving down Bloor Street on
Express.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. As I was sitting on an Air Canada “Express” plane last night,
Habits
I absentmindedly pick up and throw out loose elastic bands, thanks to my old cat Tigr, who ate them (elastic bands are not good for cats). I never leave Swiss
RIP Elwood, 2002(?) – 2011
We lost one of our kitties last night. He had stones blocking his urethra that proved immovable and thus inoperable; we did the kind thing. He was a very fine
We should all stand against it
As usual, someone else has said what I wanted to say about Remembrance Day much better than I could: The Evil That Walks By Night There is an evil that
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Oct 28, 2011
Meta-stereotypes of Groups with Opposite Religious Views: Believers and Non-Believers
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Oct 21, 2011
Why Does God Love Beards?
On the shortness of life
Quotation of the Day for April 12, 2009 “You will hear many men saying: “After my fiftieth year I shall retire into leisure, my sixtieth year shall release me from
In Which I Read Stuff: Fiction
While I love them, physical books have a few practical issues for me at the moment. One, it’s trivially out of my way to pick them up at the library.
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Oct 14, 2011
Removal of restrictions can decrease music piracy, study suggests
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Oct 07, 2011
We discount the pain of people we don’t like
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Sep 30, 2011
How Long Do the Dead Survive on the Road? Carcass Persistence Probability and Implications for Road-Kill Monitoring Surveys Northern Alberta hadrosaur called a new species
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Sep 23, 2011
Particles appear to travel faster than light: OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Thu Sep 15, 2011
Why Self-Induced Pain Feels Less Painful than Externally Generated Pain: Distinct Brain Activation Patterns in Self- and Externally Generated Pain