I am so going to replace all the outlet plates in my house with these,
December, 2008
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Occasionally I’ll read articles in newspapers or magazines speculating that humans are no longer subject to natural selection and just have to shake my head. Fortunately, Scientific American has a nice overview of the current state of thinking about human evolution that dispels that “we’re no longer evolving nonsense.” In fact, it appears to be…
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I must have one of each of these Star Trek uniform-theme t-shirts. Think Geek has them for $24.99 to $26.99.
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I think the planned bailout of the automobile industry is an awful idea. Robert Reich thinks it is a good idea. But Reich is at least principled enough to worry that the way the Bush administration plans to handle the bailout — after Congress already rejected attempts to craft such a bailout — borders on…
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Katherine Mangu-Ward wrote an excellent article for Reason back in November on Arkansas’ idiotic licensing scheme for, of all things, interior designers. In 22 states, including Arkansas, it is illegal to call yourself an interior designer without going through an arduous and expensive certification process. In Nevada, it’s illegal to do interior design without a…
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Fine Clonier Decals sells custom decals for Lego minifigs. Each decal costs about 50 cents, and they have everything from superhero-themed decals to World War II.
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Organic Hobby has been making these polyresin 3D versions of famous movie posters, and in February 2009 they’ll be releasing this 3D version of the 1954 Gojira poster. Looks freakin’ awesome, but jinkies — retail price is $420.
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Robert at MakingMyWay has one of the best responses I’ve read to the accusation that atheism was primarily responsible for much of the state-sponsored mass murder of the 20th century, specifically in Marxist/Communist regimes (thought it should be pointed out that Imperial Japan was hardly a hotbed of secularism and yet managed to murder hundreds…
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Alexander Schranz’s Lego creations were recently profiled in Brick Journal, and he’s got some amazing Transformers Lego creations, like Optimus Prime . . . . . . and Jetfire.
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John Halamka, CIO for Harvard Medical School, has an interesting post about HMS’ support for the Amazon Kindle ebook reading device, We’ve recently implemented Kindle support for all our 20,000 educational resources at HMS. Our integration on the Mycourses educational website enables any Word or PDF document to be delivered to the Kindle wirelessly. There…