More miscellaneous links that I’ve been collecting but don’t really justify getting the full post treatment:
Jolt Cola is probably going out of business. They tried to cash in on the “energy drink” fad, but that didn’t work out and now the company is bankrupt. It’s possible that some other beverage company might still buy out the trademark and produce its own “Jolt” product, but for now it’s a goner.
This Daily Mail article reports on a poll of teachers in the U.K.. The teachers were asked to rank first names as a predictor of whether or not a child would be a well-behaved or badly-behaved pupil. Number Two on the list of “Well-Behaved Girls”: Charlotte. Ahem.
From the Canadian Ministry of “Duh!”: Men buy fast cars to boost their testosterone levels. The related study about the inverse ratio of pickup-truck-size to penis-size is expected soon, but I think you can probably guess at the results.
UR Doin’ It Rong: this was an actual promotion
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
Update to yesterday’s post about boiled eggs:
The picture at the top is what I got by boiling two eggs in 180-degree-ish water for 6 minutes. Sorry for the so-so photo, I only had my cell phone handy.
The eggs were indeed nicely done. The cooked ring of egg white was consistent in its thickness [...]
Heh. Thanks for the Friday afternoon chuckles.