Top 5 tricks for taking professional looking photos with your digital camera | SamirBharadwaj.com (tags: Photography Art StumbleUpon) Acrobots (tags: StumbleUpon Space funny blog Game) The Portrait of a Healer Idealist Whoa. (tags: INFP) whocalled.us These guys call a cow-orker all the time. I’ve told him to tell them to stop calling at work, but they ignore it. (tags: dirtbags)
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HRC | Holsinger’s Anti-Gay Views Make Him ‘Unworthy’ of Surgeon General Post WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign spoke out today in opposition to President Bush’s nomination of Dr. James Holsinger to the position of surgeon general. Among other things, the U.S. surgeon general is charged with educating Americans about public health.“Dr. Holsinger has a record that is unworthy of America’s doctor,†said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “His writings suggest a scientific view rooted in anti-gay beliefs that are incompatible with the job of serving the medical health of all Americans. It is essential that America’s top doctor…
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Message to Episcopalians | Chicago Tribune (tags: Episcopalian Anglican MacIyalla) GAZPACHO RECIPE, SPANISH COLD TOMATO SOUP (tags: Recipes) Spanish Food – How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup. (tags: Recipes)
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It was another wild whirl of social events for us this weekend. No, really. Friday, we went out for sushi at Kampai, a local favorite kind of place. It’s the kind of place that really floats our boats when we want a lot of good sushi fast, or relatively fast. We’ve been going there for 10 years now, and it’s one of those places where we don’t even have to communicate in complete sentences – or with words, even. Sometimes, all that is necessary to indicate a desire for sushi is an arm, extended in expectation that it’ll be twisted.…
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Some have it, some don’t… or is that really true? Is it possible that all women would be considered beautiful at some point the history of art? [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/nUDIoN-_Hxs" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] YouTube – Women In Art [tags]YouTube[/tags]
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Global Nerdy » LOLCODE, the LOLCat Programming Language LOLCODE is your standard Algol-style programming language (Algol is the grandfather of just about every popular current programming language) married to the lolcat captioning style — that is, ALL CAPS and I CAN HAS SILLY CAT GRAMMER AND SPELING KTHXBYE.Here’s HAI WORLD, the LOLCODE version of “Hello, World!â€: HAI  CAN HAS STDIO?  VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"  KTHXBYE Here’s something that outputs the numbers 1 through 10, a classic beginner’s exercise: HAI  CAN HAS STDIO?  I HAS A VAR  IM IN YR LOOP  UP VAR!!1  VISIBLE VAR  IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE  IM…
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Religious Intelligence – News – New book by Anglican scholar claims Jesus ‘had no family values’ Jesus had no family values – the word is never mentioned in the New Testament (tags: Anglican) Off the Kuff: Fighting back against Fred (tags: FredPhelps Hypocrite)
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Local businesses in the strip mall adjoining the Ashland, MA Bank of America are grumbling about lost revenue and disruption because the bank overreacted to some bad clip art on an internal memo that was, unfortunately, truncated so that it looked like a “bomb threat” and not like a “corporate countdown” team-building document.  Also, no children were harmed in the evacuation of the strip mall. Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores – The Boston Globe A day-care center with about 30 children and more than a dozen small businesses in Ledgemere Plaza on Eliot Street were evacuated for…
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Federal Quarantine for TB Traveler | Chicago Tribune There’s something about this person’s story that doesn’t smell right. Maybe it was ignoring doctor’s orders not to travel, and then “sneaking” back into the US via Canada because the CDC got involved. (tags: news TB quarantine)
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Today, I… slept late and was late, so in a rush I grabbed one of David’s plain black T-shirts to wear got in to find not so much waiting to be done as you’d expect for a Monday-Tuesday muttered under my breath a lot and groaned about my aching back welcomed back my groups agent buddy, who had a nice week off caught up on a few items left undone while covering for agent buddy wondered if I could bike to work or not this summer struggled with broken pricing in booking tool (STILL not fixed after 2 months??) meant…