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Monday, November 21, 2005
Girl on Girl Cooking
A pair of hot girls discuss all things culinary.
Mmmm. I really dig this new podcast craze. I don't really connect with the fun people seem to be having by talking on the ether-radio, if you will, but I like being on the receiving end of this new thrill.
I haven't listened to this podcast, yet, but with a title like this, it deserves a listen, doesn't it? I was looking for cooking-themed podcasts, and stumbled upon this one. I hope it's as good as its title. It could be really, um, really hot? Hot cooking?
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Daly & Daly Says It's Brilliant!
Hay! Check it out! Somebody liked one of my pics! (Actually, 2 have gotten warm/toasty notes, now.) I really hadn't counted on how nice it would be to receive compliments on my photos!
I like this. Watch out, I think we've got more pics coming...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Morning-after scandal
Morning-after scandal
From the New York Times: Report Details FDA Rejection of Next-Day Pill
Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators. ~snip~ The officials' decision to ignore the recommendation of an independent advisory committee as well as the agency's own scientific review staff was unprecedented, the report found.
The practices by the FDA that are described in this article turn my stomach. The FDA is, appartently, no longer using science to make its decisions, but inflicting somebody else's morality on the rest of us. How conservatives can support this kind of shit is beyond me. I can't believe that they don't see that this kind of behavior is going to come back to get them, too.
This is infuriating in so many ways, not surprising but infuriating!
This country is getting scarier and scarier every time I read the news! What are these people doing to America?! (That's rhetorical, btw. It's a long catalog of how they're legislating our morality, religion, and ethics, and that's all without bringing up the big T word, either!)
Monday, November 14, 2005
(Not exactly scientifically rigorous, but interesting for those of us who think we know our kids...)
To figure out what teens are up to when their parents aren’t watching, we gave 53 boys and 47 girls from four Manhattan high schools (Dalton, La Guardia, Beacon, and MLK) a “purity test,” a series of 37 questions designed to tease out exactly how far they go. Then we went after 100 parents—not the parents of the kids we polled, but parents with kids in the same teen demographic. (We would have liked to administer a take-home purity test, but alas.) We found them—54 moms and 46 dads—in midtown, and put them to the test, with one difference: We asked them to guess their own teens’ answers. As you’ll see, the high schoolers and the parents live on
fairly different planets.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
What a great time I had, today! We took a friend of Leslie's to the Japanese Gardens, today. And then, AND THEN, they left me there to take pictures for 2 hours!!! Yeah, ALL BY MYSELF! WITHOUT KIDS OR QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT! What fun! I took 6 dozen pictures of waterfalls, moss, Buddha, lichen, streams, and trees and stuff.
I've been thinking about figuring out a way to persuade Leslie that we ought to shell out the $60/yr for a family membership to the gardens. It really is a beautiful place! Check out the pics @ their website, and I should have some posted up here soon, too.
Friday, November 11, 2005
damp
Damp evening in pdx. Btw: no blogging while operating a motor vehicle. Is dangerous.
Heated Bra - Nuke Your Nugs
I think this picture is really all we need to say about this product. You put this bra in the microwave and it comes out all toasty. According to the BBC, and they're rarely wrong except about the perversions of their Royal family—Prince Charles was in fact sired by a horse—this bra "can heat to the same level as domestic heaters." Apparently there's some sort of fuel shortage and, instead of putting on a sweater, the Japanese have decided to warm the human mammary which, in turn, warms the whole community. [Thanks, Paul]
Heated bra aims to save the world [BBC]
I'm speechless.
Amazon.com: Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach : Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches
What a great book! It's very well written with current information on how to get better looking pictures w/ your digital camera. I didn't need an encyclopedic tome of knowledge, just some, well, "coaching" is an excellent term, really. They cover the factual and technical details that are necessary, of course, and they cover them in a conversational tone that doesn't get silly or get in the way, mostly. But then they go into WHY some compositions work and specific things you can do to improve your pics in low lighting or other specific situatons that the encyclopedic tomes either don't cover or have buried deep inside, somewhere.
This is a GREAT book. Oh, and the paper quality is good, too!
-Charlie
DIY Network's TV show, "The Whole Picture", is a program covering the basics of digital photography.
I like it. I'm getting into photography more and more, and they cover the really basic stuff like lighting, composition, and how to make your camera do tricks. It's a little contrived-feeling, but that's okay. It's a fair trade-off for the parts of the show that I am interested in.
If you get DIY and take pictures, then you should check out this show. New episodes air Friday nights at 6pm, PST. (Maybe 9pm EST?)
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Donald Trump and Darth Vader Star Wars Apprentice Double TeamTonight is the Star Wars episode of The Apprentice. For those of you who have not taken note of anything not sf-related in the last couple of years, The Apprentice is a reality show starring Donald Trump. He and two of his top executives, George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher, judge ...
Is this for real? I may just have to stop ridiculing Leslie for one night and check out this episode. This sounds like too much fun to be The Apprentice.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Bug eats more acrobot.
Fooled around w/ the kids' rubber cockaroach & an acrobot, this weekend. Liked the pics.
Bug eats acrobot.
Acrobot gloats over defeated bug.
Bug is dominated by Acrobot.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Flock
I've been checking out the beta version 0.5 of the Firefox-based browser, Flock. My short answer opinion on it after a couple of days is: Neat. It seems targeted at the way more and more people are using the web: Across the top of the browser window it integrates a blog client compatible w/ Wordpress, TypePad, and of course, Blogger. It comes with a new concept, for me, that they call their "Shelf". The Shelf is a separate window to which you can drag (and presumably store) web elements for later blogging. These things can be links, pics, or text. Nifty.
Flock also comes with a a Flickr browser available in that "Topbar" space where you're used to seeing icons. I'm not as sure about the usefulness of that, but I like Flickr, I guess.
Maybe most revolutionary, though, is their incorporation of Delicious Favorites. (I know there are some dots in Delicious, but I'm not interested in double-checking to find out where.) Delicious is a Favorites-sharing online community, isn't it? I think it is.
OK. enough procrastination: Back to work!
-Charlie
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Correlation between circumcision and HIV infection rates further considered
The recent finding that male circumcision might reduce the risk of men contracting HIV through sexual intercourse with women by up to 70% "is the most important breakthrough in HIV prevention since the efficacy of the male condom was unequivocally demonstrated in laboratory and human studies," Thomas Coates, a professor of medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles, writes in an opinion piece in South Africa's Star (Coates, Star, 10/30). French and South African researchers conducted a randomized, controlled clinical trial that enrolled 3,274 HIV-negative, uncircumcised men ages 18 to 24 living in South Africa. Half of the men were randomly assigned to be circumcised, and the other half served as a control group, remaining uncircumcised. The researchers continually tested the men for HIV infection over 21 months, recording 20 HIV infections among the circumcised men and 49 infections among the uncircumcised men. The study was published in the November issue of PLoS Medicine (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 10/26). Male circumcision has advantages over condoms, which many men do not like to use and which can be expensive and inaccessible when they are needed, Coates writes, adding that, unlike condoms, circumcision is a "one-time irreversible event." However, the procedure "cannot be done by just anyone" and requires the patient to refrain from sexual activity until the wound has healed, he says. Two other ongoing studies to determine the effects of circumcision on the risk of HIV infection "need to be examined to ensure their findings are replicating, and not contradicting," the South African trial, according to Coates. If the findings "hold up," studies need to be launched immediately to determine how best to implement large-scale male circumcision "without negative effects," Coates says (Star, 10/30).
Scooter Libby's Erotic Writing Tutor All across the country, people are asking, Why didn't Scooter Libby take Susie Bright's erotic writing advice before he wrote his dirty novel? I know, I know— the damage is done. Now when The New Yorker reviews his torrid...
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