September 2009
Ten Tips for Writing Horror →
Star Trek Tribbles vs. Guinea Pigs: Side By Side... →
August 2009
How far in advance do newspapers write obituaries? →
New Theory for Why We Cry | LiveScience →
How Our Ancestors Won Out Over the Neanderthals:... →
Om nom nom?
Paul's Ponderings - My Letter To Verizon Customer... →
Archimedes Death Ray →
Yup, it’s as cool as it sounds.
What's The Matter With Story Arcs On Television? →
This is something I think about a lot, as far as my books are concerned, so it’s an interesting article.
Sonic Blaster is defeated by fashionable... →
Painted cats. →
Uh. No comment.
True Deliciousness - The Bacon Chicken Narwhal →
Politics In The Doctor's Office? →
Unsettling Old Photos of the “Living” Dead →
I’ve seen the Victorian mourning photos before, but not the kind with the eyes painted on. Very creepy, but also really interesting. At the end of the article, they make a good point: “Sometimes, (imagine it) a post-mortem photograph was the only image a mother or a father had of a lost dearly loved child. Who are we, in our twenty-first century cocoons, walled-off from the reality...
Not Oprah's Book Club: The Tall Book - Feministing →
As a woman who is 5’9” (and a half), I would definitely say that my height helped make me into a feminist. When I entered into a relationship with a guy who’s two inches shorter than me in bare feet — with a much more drastic difference in normal shoes — it totally challenged my perception of gender roles and our roles in our relationship. I don’t know if I...
Pictures from a cute wedding →
I hate weddings, but sometimes I’ll stumble across adorable pictures of new couples that I just can’t resist. Irresistable element here: the bride wearing a tophat. Growl.
WiFi on steroids? First "WhiteFi" prototypes hit... →
The poodles transformed into pandas, horses and... →
Poor poodles. Sigh.
How to Swat a Mosquito →
World's 5 Fastest Trains on High-Speed Rail -... →
Alienated Conclusions: What Black Women Were White... →
From the page: “Men would proclaim that white women deserve sexual objectification because ‘flat buttocks’ allow for deeper penetration. In ghetto’s across America, men would stand on street corners and yell ‘Damn! You got a flat ass!’ to remind white women of their sexual status in society.”
As a white woman, this is a difficult article for me to read and...
Race and Gender in “The Princess and the Frog” →
Dog who believes he is a cat →
Aww. I would adopt him in a heart beat.
Nude model arrested in pic shoot at The Met in NYC →
Time travel in popular film and TV →
A woman calls Home Depot to ask how to remove a... →
Tl;dr— She disappears. Hmm. RL troll?
New "Impossible" Planet May Be on a Death Spiral →