First, Take a look at this visual description of powers of ten. It’s nifty-keeno. It’s like an early prototype for the Total Perspective Vortex.
Then, take a look at this little thing. Wait for it to load. It’s worth it.
Nothing personal to post for right now. Maybe after the upcoming meeting with the boss! It has a secret, unknown topic, and they pulled me off the phone 15 minutes early to attend. Woohoo! Just me and the man, one on one. Wish me luck!
So, I was over at Spark.com taking tests, and on my first pass at their Stress Test, I got the following response:
You exhibit a stress percentage of 16%, which barely registers. Get a job. Your Stress Test answers indicate that to reduce your stress level even further you should eliminate at least one of the following from your life immediately:
consciousness.
Q.E.D.
Let me see if I can do a little better by embelishing and using technicalities, while not altogether lying…
so, I get regular emails from match.com trying to convince me to pay for their services and “find my match”. In the most recent email, it looks like whoever wrote it wasn’t clear on how to use auto-filled fields from a database. Here are some excerpts:
“True Stories
My best friend had been using tmcclanahan and sold me on the idea. She met a guy whom she dated for a year, and it sounded so great to me. I logged on immediately and started dating. “
and
“Who is the “hottest” man on the ice?
Listen up, ladies. tmcclanahan wants to know your pick for the hottest NHL player on the ice today!”
Now, hopefully I won’t start getting emails from young women about their favorite hockey players, but seriously – how can they let that kind of mistake get through? They send this thing out every week to literally millions of people. I’m sure it’s bad for business.
According to this study in the British Medical Journal, prayer is capable of producing remote, retroactive effects. That is, in a double-blind study, they took thousands of people with a particular blood disorder and sepereated them into a control group and an intercessory group, and prayed for the intercessory group, 6-10 years after they were infected, treated, and released. The intercessory group had faster recoveries and shorter hospital stays. Because someone prayed for them years later. How about that?
Somehow, FOX has got it in their heads that they should cancel Futurama. You should go sign the petition to keep it on the air.