Monkey down
Ran across this comic, combining the recent political goings-on with the late monkey attack. Good for a laugh.
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An excellent hour of radio from Radiolab. Several stories around the theme of unintended consequences. From the episode description:
You come up with a great idea. You devise a plan. You control for every imaginable variable. And once everything’s in place, the train hops your carefully laid tracks. In this episode, one psychologist's zeal to safeguard national security may have created a terrorist, while one community's efforts to protect an endangered bird had deadly consequences. And against all odds, a toxic lake spawns new life.Link...
Cognitive Surplus
A devastating infographic comparing TV-watching time to the time it took to build one of the most useful things ever made.
Satire & the Bible
An interview with Douglas Wilson:
Full interview transcript...GH: Still, many Christians think that satire is inherently risky. How can it glorify God?DW: By lampooning that which does not glorify God. Paul says knowledge puffs up, and when something is puffed up, what you need is a good, sharp pin. When someone applies the pinprick to the balloon of self-important knowledge, the balloon explodes! That glorifies God because the puffed-up knowledge was in defiance of God.
WP: Chiefess Kapiolani
"High Chiefess Kapi'olani (c. 1781–1841) was an important member of the Hawaiian nobility at the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the arrival of Christian missionaries. One of the first Hawaiians to read and write and sponsor a church, she made a dramatic display of her new faith which made her the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson."
WP: IMEI
"The International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones."
WP: Mystery Airship
"Mystery airships or phantom airships are a class of unidentified flying objects best known from a series of newspaper reports originating in the western United States and spreading east during 1896 and 1897."
How to Replace a Wheel Stud
A very helpful guide to replacing Chevrolet wheel studs. I followed the advice in this article while installing new studs on the rear of my 1994 Chevy Astro. If your car is old and rusty like mine, and your brake drum is stuck, then here's a hint: you're going to need a bigger hammer...
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