January 2010
26 posts
High-Tech Energy "Oasis" to Bloom in the Desert? →
National Geographic article about the Sahara Forest Project, which is testing out exciting ideas for renewable-energy sites in deserts.
Sleep paralysis →
…is what I think I experienced twice Sunday night/Monday morning. There was a lot of noise throughout the night that might have caused me to wake up out of REM cycles. This wiki article isn’t very well written or accredited, but the description sounds accurate for what happened. No hallucinations though. It also happened to me once toward the end of December. My sister and father both...
TCHO chocolate →
I am very curious to try this chocolate.
"A San Francisco chocolatier mixes science,... →
“To the Editor:
By means of two legal fictions, that corporations are people...”
– Norman N. Holland Gainesville, Fla., Jan. 22, 2010
-NY Times Opinion Letters
WatchDunk of the year candidate. Yikes, Derrick Rose. Yikes.
"You sitting down? Experts say it'll kill you." →
Notice
dodecadist:
proactive-reactive:
dodecadist:
What would happen if breaking up required two weeks’ notice?
Things would then be so awkward. Definitely.
Exactly. That’s what it feels like to quit a job and disappoint people! But need to stick around to not be a dick. And feel awkward!
Kinda like how Angel breaks up with Buffy at the end of season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! …
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Several Intense pictures from the same in this WSJ... →
Dom featured on WSJ front page from Haiti →
Audio clip, reporting for the Wall Street Journal from Haiti. The clip wouldn’t load in Chrome, worked in Firefox though.
Gilbert Arenas pleads guilty to felony gun... →
He seems so collected and mature on the court. Turns out he’s immature and pretty dumb off the court. I feel bad for the Washington franchise - this might have been a turn-around season.
Why not start your own book publisher? →
rawstonemedia:
Bubble Cow
This interview tells the stroy of Miriam Wakerly, author of Gypsies Stop tHere. She decided to skip the traditional route of proposals and rejections and set up her own publishing company. Find out how she established a distribution chain and tried to overcome the biggest hurdle – getting a book into a bookshop.
Exactly!
Somewhat related: This is increasingly...
Dom's heading to Haiti. →
Check out his award-winning work at the link. Am I proud of him? Very much so. Good luck in Haiti, buddy.
