The Efficiency Paradox

Did you know that a jet is about as fuel-efficient as a car? Find out why increased energy efficiency doesn't have the effect you think it does in this article from Forbes Magazine.

Safety reminder

Extensive Freezing and Food Safety guidelines from the USDA, very helpful.

Reminder

Remember to visit The Cone Epicentre!


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Would you have guessed how to fix this?

A broken oven... not only a broken oven, but a broken design. I have a lot of devices like this. They seem to proliferate.

(Matthew Paul Thomas)

I told you so

I'm not necessarily a big Colbert fan, but he's right on here.

I voted for him in 1988

Texas Congressman Ron Paul files for GOP presidential bid

06:29 PM CST on Thursday, January 11, 2007


Associated Press

HOUSTON – Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican.

Paul filed incorporation papers in Texas on Thursday to create a presidential exploratory committee that allows him and his supporters to collect money on behalf of his bid. This will be Paul's second try for the White House; he was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988.

(more from The Dallas Morning News)

What?

Sorry, my mind was wandering. Does this happen to you?

Scientists have discovered what happens in the brain when the mind wanders. Until recently, little has been known about the neural mechanisms that give the mind its ability to daydream.

But now psychologists and neuroscientists in Aberdeen and America have revealed that a collection of areas in the brain termed the default network, supports what is known as mind wandering.

(more at physorg.com)

I have the Space Madness

This is the best episode of Ren and Stimpy ever made.

MORE: Sigh, I hate it when content disappears on the Internet after you link to it. Now you'll have to guess what I meant.

Reality

"To the meaningless French idealisms, of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, we present the German realities of Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery." - Prince Bernhard von Bulow

Seven Slash

Slash 7s? Got your number!

Not all 7s are created equal. Some -- as the fledgling 2007 will no doubt remind us -- have a little something extra. Yes, we're talking about the slash, the cross stroke that some people swipe through the torso of their handwritten 7s.
The slash can say a lot about where you've been and where you'd like to go, about who you are, who you'd like to be and how well you'd like to be understood.

(more... Albany Times-Union)

Someone has a tuna vendetta

Fire Reported at Chicken of the Sea Offices

Fire investigators suspect an arsonist began a fire around 7 p.m. Jan. 2 on the fifth floor of a Sorrento Valley office building, in the offices of Chicken of the Sea International.

A similar fire broke out in October.

(more)
(San Diego Business Journal)

Happy new year!

Big things coming in 2007.