Second and Third Thoughts
McCain should pay a heavy price for unleashing this ignorant, two-wheeled bilewagon on the country’s politics. If you think she’s a legitimate political leader, you’re an idiot and a sucker and I feel sorry for you.
via Sarah Palin CPAC 2014 – CPAC Bonus Saturday — The Princess In Excelsis – Esquire.
Since I haven’t played every single swipe game on iOS, I can’t confirm Eric Pramono’s judgement, but I do agree with him that it’s a damn good game. If you haven’t yet played the game, you should. Eric’s suggestion for strategy is pretty sensible—slightly out-of-date because the latest version of the game does give an indication that the next tile will be higher than 3, but that doesn’t affect the advice significantly.
Currently, my high score is 29,142, which apparently means I’m 2,369th of 497,184 players.
My brother lives in the Médoc region of France. I’ve just been to visit for a long weekend with my friend, Tim, who was my best man too many years ago. The weather has been as miserable there as at home, but the sun came out on Sunday, so we took a little cultural jaunt to visit Fort Médoc.
BBC News – The English expressions coined in WW1.
Interesting read on the BBC.
22 Responses To Buzzfeed’s 22 Messages From Creationists On Evolution And The Origin Of Life.
A very, interesting and well-reasoned piece.
Somehow I inadvertently deleted yesterday’s post about redesigning the site. So I’ll repeat my apologies for any inconvenience caused by the painters and decorators.
You’re fucking swimming in everyone else’s moments, likes, and tweets and during these moments of consumption you are coming to believe that their brief interestingness to others makes it somehow relevant to you and worth your time.
Four Questions To Ask Yourself Before Opening Your Mouth.
Catching up on the usual post-vacation email backlog, I found another interesting contribution from Farnam Street. It contains advice that I have failed to follow more times that I would like.
It seems that sitting down is the best sure-fire way to avoid unwanted splashing in a traditional toilet.
via BBC News – Physicists probe urination ‘splashback’ problem.
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