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Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Craft item of the day
see more Must Have Cutepapercraft designs for download, printout, and making found HERE. [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Waiter, there's a Hare in my soup
from Epicute [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » John Callahan RIP
Callahan, a cartoonist of black humor about disabilities, has died.more HERE.and HERE. [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Ever had one of those days?
in an email from TiaMaria [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Asteroid stuff
There was a discussion on one of my podcasts about the Japanese space probe that was supposed to bring back asteroid dust. Apparantly, they had lots of mechanical/electrical problems in the 7year long voyage, but managed to fix them all.It was supposed to "shoot" at the asteroid and then collect the dust, but instead it landed on the asteroid…twice…and hopefully … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Happy Little Quarks
Ethan Siegel is disussing quarks and the higgsBoson particle at his blog, all of which is over my head.But he included this illustration: [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Headlines below the fold
The Anchoress discusses taking things out of context, and how this can destroy people's lives.My take HERE. You just can't fire civil servants without a hearing…but apparantly Sherrol wasn't a civil servant. More disturbingly is that a professor can now be fired for teaching Catholicism in a course that teaches Catholic doctrine.————————–~ discusses taking things out of context…with the Wikileaks … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold
StrategyPage's take on the Wikileaks: The essence of these reports has long been available to the media, but often ignored (or downplayed) for one reason or another. One item the U.S. has downplayed is enemy casualties. Not wanting to repeat the problems with "body count" during Vietnam (especially pressure on commanders to increase it for the enemy), it indicated that … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » The "WAGD" headlines of the day
Gamma-Ray Bursts Could Halt PhotosynthesisCosmic explosions thousands of light-years away could shut down photosynthesis in the ocean at depths of up to 260 feet, a new study suggests. The calculations add to a growing body of research linking these great blasts, called gamma-ray bursts, with biological damage and even mass extinctions on Earth.Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2~ [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Durian!
YUM! Durian.Chano brought one back from Manila for us to eat.Durian is called "The fruit that smells like H@@@ but tastes like heaven."How bad does it smell?Well, this sign is supposedly posted in Singapore's mass transit:how smelly is it? The Brainiacs did a scientific test:Boing boing has a thread on Durian, and mentions this urban legend:If you drink beer with … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Jollibee and St. Martha
The heck with the "wikileaks" story. The real story is that Fast food might return to Afghanistan.But the article said even the earlier order didn't apply to "foreign" fast food operators.Calling Jollibee, calling Jollibee… Jolibee, the symbol that peace is at hand….———————Happy St. Martha's day (July 29)What does St. Martha have to do with Jollibee? Well, she is the patron … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stories that make you go heh?
Three guesses who said this:Hitler wasn't that bad, if you put him into context…wtf?———————~ in the UK won't pay for IVF and will ration hip and knee replacements, obesity surgery, and end of life care.Well, in the federal clinics of the IHS, we limited Hip replacements, rarely funded obesity surgery, and didn't fund IVF.But we did fund end of life … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Lavender fields
just for nice:England's famous lavender fieldsDawn over lavender fields in Faulkland, Somerset. Photographer Antony Spencer's shot looks like a real-life version of an impressionist paintingRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art~ [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day
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Finestkind Clinic and fish market » China vs google
There was a big kerfuffle about China vs Google, and I thought that China had won.StrategyPage however notes:July 20, 2010: China renewed Google's license to operate in China, and quietly backed down in their dispute over censorship. China said it won, but it didn't. It got some cosmetic changes to the Chinese Google web page, but uncensored access to the … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » History Stuff below the fold
Computer program to decode languages?The article mentions Ugarit, where they found lots of tablet in a language related to Hebrew. Took humans years to decipher them back in the 1930's, but now the computer "reads" them faster.Will it help them decipher Etruscan?And what about Harappan?a list of undeciphered languages HEREand will it help to figure out where the language of … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Family news
no earthquakes in our area, so we're fine. [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Photograph of the day
cooking at comiccon…(Reuters) [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Things a man should be able to do
PopMechanics has a list of 25 skills every man should have.1. Patch a radiator hose 2. Protect your computer 3. Rescue a boater who has capsized 4. Frame a wall 5. Retouch digital photos 6. Back up a trailer 7. Build a campfire 8. Fix a dead outlet 9. Navigate with a map and compass 10. Use a torque wrenchyou … [Link]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day
Turn up speakers and dance! [Link]
