Presumably your education, like mine, included a discussion of rites
of passage. That your teacher discussed various cultures’ rituals,
along with a discussion of how our western culture also has rites of
passage: graduation, driver’s license, and so forth.
Now, maybe I’m slow, but it only recently occurred to me what function
these rites play in the life of a [...]
While we’re all celebrating the 40th anniversary of humanity’s first
trip to another world, I’ve been listening to the “real-time”
broadcast of the Apollo 11 mission at
We Choose the Moon.
Think of it as a multi-day radio broadcast.
Yes, we all know how it turns out, so the brief moments of drama when
something goes wrong, or when Houston talks [...]
Takoma Park Man Beats Ex-Girlfriend with 18-Pound Crucifix
And the article contains this tidbit:
The victim bought herself time during the attack by telling the man to stop long enough to turn on a Barbie DVD for their two girls to watch in another room so they wouldn’t see the assault, authorities said.
Despite the implement in the [...]
On Monday, in a post entitled
“Surgeon General Pick Is Excellent“,
BillDo wrote:
President Obama picked the right person to be the new Surgeon General. Dr. Benjamin is a hero to all those victimized by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Her tireless and selfless efforts are a model for all physicians.
Dr. Benjamin is an African-American Catholic public servant who [...]
Throughout history, the wind has been used as a standard for speed, as
in “run like the wind”. But it occurred to me recently to wonder about
that.
According to the
Beaufort scale,
hurricane-force winds start at 118 km/h (73 mph). Mere strong gales,
which break branches off of trees, are in the 75-88 km/h (47-54 mph)
range.
That doesn’t seem particularly [...]
Shroud
of
Turing.
(Whipped up in 10 minutes with the Gimp, so don’t complain about the quality.)
Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but here’s a morsel until I can
post something more substantive:
Faithless, Scritti Politti
Fearless, VNV Nation
Helpless, X Marks the Pedwalk
Ruthless, Cabaret Voltaire
Speechless, Laurie Anderson
Useless, Depeche Mode
Nevertheless, The Rutles