Via the Waterboro Public Library, I stumbled across a blog called, appropriately enough, So what can I do? The site explores ways to enact social change. A lot of them, in fact. A lot of the tips seem to be the ‘easy’ sorts of things of which I’m endlessly suspicious—I tend to be skeptical of […]
Listening In
Court TV (who else?) brings you a radio series based exclusively on, yes, wiretaps. It’s called the Frank and Fritzy show.
Posted by Ben on May 27, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/listening-in/
Cue ominous music
I’ve been putting this off for a while, mostly because the end of the world seems as good a thing as any to put off till later. But ladies and gents, The End Is Near. Or might be, anyway: After analysing the eradication of millions of ancient species, scientists have found that a mass extinction […]
Posted by Ben on May 13, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/cue-ominous-music/
Your number one source for news about monkeys…
…is Monkeywire. (via TMN)
Posted by Ben on May 13, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/your-number-one-source-for-news-about-monkeys/
Your friend, the clock
Clocky only wants to help–it’s not his fault his sole task is to drag you out of bed by any way possible. An exaggeration, of course. But this furry beast of time, devised by a scientist at MIT, does all it can to wake you; after you hit snooze, it rolls away and hides somewhere […]
Posted by Ben on May 12, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/your-friend-the-clock/
Walkable goodness
The American Podiatric Medical Association ranks the top 10 walker-friendly (U.S.) cities. And they should know.1 Arlington, VA San Francisco, CA Seattle, WA Portland, OR Boston, MA Washington, D.C. NYC Eugene, OR Jersey City, NJ Denver, CO The list includes links to lots of other info, including stretches for exercise walkers, a true-or-false walking quiz […]
Posted by Ben on May 6, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/walkable-goodness/
The Drug Company
I won’t say there’s less happening in the world at large. I will, however, distract you with a link to mp3s from Abbie Hoffman’s 1969 album, Wake Up America!
Posted by Ben on April 27, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-drug-company/
Let me tell you about my great enormous backlog of links
Going all the way back to mid-February, WorldPress Review carried an interesting story about the US Military’s recruitment schemes, both historical and contemporary. And did you hear about the starquake? Oh. You did. Well, did you hear that women are “less likely to get quality heart attack care,” or that cancer-stricken rats live longer if […]
Posted by Ben on April 14, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/let-me-tell-you-about-my-great-enormous-backlog-of-links/
Strange and Good
Rasterbate this. Using the wonders of modern technology, the Rasterbator takes any image you feed it and turns it into a massive, massive poster that you can print out on your standard printer. To date, it’s rasterized enough images to cover 2.39% of Vatican City. (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog) Build your own. Read […]
Posted by Ben on April 2, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/strange-and-good/
History of the thingamajig
Wikipedia has an entire entry dedicated to kadigans (which are more reasonably referred to as “placeholder names.”). An entire entry, in other words, dedicated to the doodad, the whatchamacallit, and East Jesus, USA. (via The Morning News)
Posted by Ben on March 27, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/history-of-the-thingamajig/