OK, I surrender.
I tried, I really did. I have a wide assortment of chili sauces at home and generally love to eat very hot food. So some time last year, I came across a sauce called Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Sauce and thought I’d add it to my collection. Let me tell you, that [...]
Tomorrow marks Mozart’s 250th birthday. As the BBC article points out:
Mozart, who has long been hailed a genius, was a child prodigy having composed his first symphony before the age of 10 and his first successful opera by the age of 12.
In case you are not familiar with his music, here’s a good Washington Post [...]
Psychology Today has a good article on how to get great sleep. I have no problems getting great sleep – my only problem is getting too little of it.
Microsoft will spend $120 million to convince the world that it is a small company. One hundred and twenty million dollars. Small company. Riiiiight.
Oh yeah, last I checked, their market cap was close to $280 billion. Small indeed.
It amazes me that in this day and age, there are still so many unknown species on our planet, even right at our doorstep…
Biologists just discovered 27 new species in a cave right here in California. Imagine all the unknown creatures out there in some of the more remote corners of the earth…
Here’s a very good essay from Paul Graham on How to do What You Love. Take the time to read it in full, it’s a worthwhile read.
It’s great to see that more and more women are being elected leaders of various countries – it’s about time. Just a few months back, Angela Merkel became Germany’s first female Chancellor.
Now Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been elected president of Liberia, marking the first time a woman has attained this position in the whole continent [...]
I love technology and technological progress, but for some reason the news that Nikon will stop making most film cameras saddens me…
I own film as well as digital cameras and use both for different purposes, but there is just a certain purity about shooting film that gets lost with digital.
New on my to-read pile: Starting Something, The Fabric of the Cosmos, A History of God, and The Da Vinci Code.
Interesting… The Norwegian government is planning to build a seed bank inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold seeds of all known varieties of the world’s crops. As the article says,
It will be designed to withstand global catastrophes like nuclear war or natural disasters that would destroy the planet’s sources of food.
Does this [...]
Day three of the Alito hearings focused on his supposed membership in a Princeton University organization called the “Concerned Alumni of Princeton”, a group that protested the integration of minorities and women into the Princeton student body in the early 1970s. Alito claims he doesn’t remember belonging to the group, but as Senator Edward Kennedy [...]
Now that’s a TV…
Well this is not exactly news, but Google announced its free Google Pack collection of software at the CES in Las Vegas last Friday. This is really just a repackaging of otherwise free and readily available software (I already have most of the programs on my computer), but it’s a nice bundle of software essentials [...]
Samuel Alito’s weeklong hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee have begun. This will be interesting to watch as his nomination could change the political landscape for decades to come, moving the Supreme Court into a decidedly more conservative direction.
The death-by-caffeine calculator suggests that it would take about 104 cups of brewed coffee to kill me. Heh. I guess I don’t have to be too worried about my caffeine intake then.