This piece, titled At the UN, how we envy the World Cup, came to me via the mailing list I’m about to go into withdrawal from, as I’ve unsubbed until after Clarion West is over. You may wonder what a secretary general of the United Nations is doing writing about football. But in fact, the World Cup makes us at the United Nations green with envy. As the pinnacle of the only truly global game, played in every country by every race and religion, it is one of the few phenomena as universal as the United Nations. You could even …
Category: ASIDES
FDA Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine — Couzin 2006 (608): 1 — ScienceNOW
FDA says okay, but depending on the ruling of the ruling made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, this may not become a part of the Public Health Strategy in some states. And I think we know which ones would rather not, since they’ll consider this another encouragement of promiscuity.
Woman Marries Snake
No, really. No comment necessary. Via Ritu.
worthwhile things @ i d e o m a n c e r
i d e o m a n c e r has some worthwhile things up this month: a poem by a Clarion West classmate of mine, Tina, called Tam Lin A pretty interesting (fantasy) story called Unstringing the Bow by Yoon Ha Lee, the Korean-American SF writer I once began to interview, but never got around to really asking any questions to. (Yet, anyway.)
retouched
From that mailing list — a good look at how a professional goes about retouching photos, and what the originals looked like. Pretty eye-opening.
The oops list
From a list (again) look at these airplane mishaps!
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
On Culture, someone linked this brilliant mashup over at YouTube: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments Most brilliant line is Samuel Jackson, as the Burning Bush. Listen for it!
Space Art Gallery at Solar Voyager!
There’s a Space Art Gallery that might appeal to some of my readers. Also pointed out on a mailing list.
Dear NSA
Dear NSA was pointed out this morning on a mailing list I’m on.
Eggcorns
I miss these. I used to see them in student papers in Canada a lot, but here, they’re not so common.