Whisky-themed neckties. Unfortunately the Euro exchange rate makes them $43 apiece. (Have you seen the exchange rates recently? $1.34 to buy a Euro; $1.95 to buy a pound.) Read more »
New Pearl Jam album
X ROCK radio is reporting a new Pearl Jam album sometime in 2005. Read more »
sorryeverybody
sorryeverybody. We tried. Read more »
Flynome
“The mutant phenotype that we saw when we crossed the two deletions … was an inability of [fruitfly] larvae to carry out vigorous, concerted head swinging to scrape their way out of the egg shell…” So they named the gene “amontillado”. And a mutation causing learning defects is named “turnip”, because “vegetables are not well-known [...] Read more »
Cartograms
Cartograms give more realistic election data than geographic maps, and most states are purple anyway (this is really good — if you follow only one link on this page, make this it.) More on cartograms, and one of the world that will lead you to the conclusion that, as a first-order approximation, the whole world [...] Read more »
Not cuz I hate you, but cuz you’re icky by nature
Call me a nature hater, if you must, but I’m not too thrilled about encouraging beetles and spiders to nest in my roof. Read more »
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