eek (pocket-poet.com). From a google ad in response to the query “roasting garlic”.
eek (pocket-poet.com). From a google ad in response to the query “roasting garlic”.
I believe that in the nature v. nurture debate, nature should have the burden of proof.
That is, for trait X, the argument that the characteristic is an intrinsic “natural” trait would have to prove that the trait holds even when the rest of society does not possess or desire trait X. For example, to say that a female “naturally” wants to wear a dress you would have to show that they would wear a dress even if no one else wore dresses and people generally frowned upon the idea.
Lauren and I wanted to cook, but all we had was cucumber, rice, and tomatoes.
She searched google for cucumber tomato rice recipe and we found this one for old fashioned cucumber, rice, and tomato soup.
Google’s a better cook than I thought it would be!
Tom Tomorrow has two nice articles; an older one about how Bush wanted to go after Saddam since 1998, and a new one saying that yellow cake was the only “evidence” left to justify war. Thus, if they knew the yellow cake was fake, there was no evidence at all to go to war.
Wired News has an article on bionic eyes.
Last fall, for my Benjamin Franklin Scholars capstone course, my group did a technology assessment of what we called “neural interface technology”–stuff that interacts directly with the senses in the brain. The coolest stuff was from the Dobelle Group.
We never totally finished our research though, as we still haven’t gotten together to watch the Six Million Dollar Man.
I’m house-sitting.
One of the cats in the house will poop in the bathtub if his litterbox isn’t totally clean.
Good morning!
Howard Dean’s campaign sent out an email and posted on their blog about their “truth” petition. The petition calls for the resignations of people who knew about the Niger uranium fiasco but led the country to war anyway. (The petition is similar–even in URL–to the Democratic National Committee’s petition.
Normally I don’t write anything in the comments field, but I did this time:
This administration has already demonstrated to me that they do not listen to citizens–from the millions of people who protested against the war but were dismissed out of hand, to its FCC appointees who ignore over 500,000 personalized messages.
The democratic party is realizing that its power stems from people, not money. It’s finding out that–while the media does everything in its power to protect the White House and prevent damaging stories like this one from ever surfacing–the American people still demand democracy.
The American people don’t need to wrap themselves in the flag, because we know that we are the United States. We do not need a comic-strip “us versus them” mentality, because the Roadmap to Peace or even the federal budget could never be resolved with that sort of childish resolve.
We need leaders who hold themselves accountable before all others. We need politicians who at least acknowledge and respect both sides of the Peace vs. anti-Peace debate. We need a President who can think about the long-term interests of our country, not the short-term interests of companies like Halliburton.
Submit your resignations, and appoint in your stead moderates who will help you win the 2004 election.