April 2009
March 2009
The Minimalist - Meal or Appetizer - Tiny Shrimp... →
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WatchBizarre Japanese video tour of New Zealand. Shot from a POV perspective with a steadicam, it bobs up and down in a sea-sickening way. The disembodied Japanese voice talking to the locals is even more surreal.
Setting the Record Straight:
Nutritionists Define... →
Fmylife - FML : Your everyday life stories. →
TENENBAUM FAIL →
#VALUE!
I wish I could dumb down my online banking so it reported one of three balances:
w00t
meh
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I could make day-to-day financial decisions based on those standings. There would be a bubbly iPhone app, too.
The Geithner Plan FAQ →
Chickpea Trivia
In ancient Rome where the chickpea was highly valued, the leader Cicero proudly claimed his name derived from cicer, the Latin term for chickpea. It is believed that one of Cicero’s ancestors was named Cicero because he had a wart on his nose that looked like a chickpea.
100 skills every man should know →
I scored 66. Two-thirds of a man.
Ship of Theseus Paradox- Wikipedia, the free... →
The Ship of Theseus paradox, also known as Theseus’s paradox, is a paradox that raises the question of whether an object which has had all its component parts replaced remains fundamentally the same object.
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first...
