'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson, cookies will be yours. no raisons, right?
sara!
So twice this week I have seen a guy in a carrot outfit handing out flyers on teh street. Today he was dancing. Everyone should get to see a dancing carrot on their way to work. The world would be a much better case if they did.
I, for one, welcome our new vegetable overlords.
More embarrasment for Kansas.
The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 Tuesday to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote.
The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language favored by the board Tuesday comes from advocates of intelligent design.
The intelligent design concept holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause. Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years through natural selection.
The standards are used in developing state tests for fourth, seventh and 10th-graders, though local schools have the final say on what is taught in their classrooms. Students will be tested on the new standards in the 2007-08 school year.
The board is expected to vote on final approval of the standards in October.
"The intelligent design concept holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause." Oh, that is so not science.
iPod subway maps:
On ET a couple of nights ago, they showed Pamela Anderson on the red carpet at some event with someone dressed up as a carrot. Clearly the carrots understand the power of celebrity endorsements.
Clearly the carrots understand the power of celebrity endorsements.
They learnt it from beholding the power of cheese.
Clearly the carrots understand the power of celebrity endorsements.
::suddenly becomes afraid of Carrot Top::
HA! I am the favorite!
Now I want a new iPod just so I can have maps. Though i'd prefer not just subway maps but all maps.
Ohh.. iPod with Topo maps.
Last night Lori and I were up all hours watching the DC-Panda Mom and Baby. So cute and so funny becuase Mom was asleep and baby was furiously squiggly, pretty much the panda equivalent of "I'm awake!"
I seem to have been deleted from my school e-mail system. Sadly, I need to wait until 9:00 AM to complain.
grrr.
From Wired:
This Town Is Off the Hook
A phone company wants to drag a tiny Washington town into the 20th century, but many of Stehekin's 100 or so residents are kicking, screaming and e-mailing about the horrifying prospect of bringing telephone service to the remote region. "Why can't we have one place in this world where there aren't any phones?" said Ana Maria Spagna, a web surfer who sees the irony in the blizzard of e-mail railing against the plan. "So phones are too much progress, but e-mail isn't? I recognize the absurdity. I just choose absurdity." But according to a story in The Seattle Times, not everybody is thrilled with the no-frills Stehekin lifestyle, which is widely touted in tourist brochures promising truly peaceful vacations. Danita Grasser, 14, came to the area three years ago. "It felt like I had been taken out of life and dropped in this little box," she said.
I gotta love someone who embraces absurdity....