Another great read from Sometimes Interesting. On a lonely island fifty miles north of New York City, the bricks of a once-proud castle slowly return to the earth. The crumbling fortress is one of several remaining structures on tiny Pollepel Island,…
What do I do for fun on a Saturday night? Well, after steam vacuuming the carpets, I like to install new operating systems on small computers. Seriously though…I’ve got Windows 7 Beta up and running on my ASUS Eee PC…
I used to love installing software, inserting disc 1 of 34! via download squad Remember when software used to come on disks, not discs? You know, the old floppies that could hold a whopping 1.2 or even 1.4MB of storage?…
I was bored so I decided to clean out my spam trap and found this gem. What makes it unusual is that it wasn’t hocking some kind of perverse sex site. It has a link to some UK golf site…
Very interesting program on the local PBS station KERA called Nowhere but Texas. The opening segment featured a story about the Gainesville Community Circus. “Gainesville Community Circus” The television special opens with the remarkable story of the acclaimed Gainesville Community…
When I started out on the internet back in the early 90’s I was the only Junyor out there. Fast forward to 2007 2008 and a Google search of the term “junyor” returns a whopping 43,600 51,000 results. I know what you…
MIT biochemists identified the molecular mechanism that creates fear and successfully cured it in mice. Give it a few years and you can kiss that nagging fear of public speaking goodbye! [via lifehacker.com]
Nearly two-thirds of young Indian men expect the woman they marry to be a virgin, but nearly half have had sex with prostitutes, according to a poll. But that’s not the kicker…. check out the last sentence of this article….
Something about a handbasket & going somewhere in it. GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS by Bill Winter () High school students against free speech Here”s the good news: Fully 69% of American high school students think musicians should be…
Heard this on the radio during the morning commute. Great commentary. —– Commentary: Naturalists By Lee Cullum, KERA 90.1 Commentator DALLAS, TX (2006-08-24)We are so divorced from nature most of the time that it”s startling to meet what once was…