The San Francisco Chronicle had this profile of “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe recently. Nothing new or revelatory, but interesting if you’re a fan of the show. We are big Dirty Jobs fans around here, but I have to admit that even I was pretty close to tuning out during the episode with the forensic entomologists.
From the Unclear On The Concept files: Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta made me chuckle with this video clip of a Catholic priest on FOX News saying “If you have an imaginary friend, there’s something wrong with you.”
Anyone travelling the globe will instantly recognize the complete necessity of this website: Where Do I Put The Paper.com Let’s just say that I was more than a little surprised about the custom in several countries I would have ordinarily assumed to be “flush” cultures.
After reading this Prose Before Hos post, you might want to reconsider putting a buck in the Salvation Army buckets. CharityNavigator.org is a useful online guide to finding more suitable outlets for your giving.
A blog from a South Carolina law firm that ordinarily focuses on product liability issues recently offered up a post that looks at a New York Times article from 1931 soliciting opinions of the Future World of 2011 from such luminaries of the day as Henry Ford, Dr. William J. Mayo, Nobel-winning physicist Arthur Compton, and anthropologist Arthur Keith. As usual with any look back at these “predicting the future” articles from the past, there are plenty of things laughably wrong as well as presciently correct, though mainly in the “not so much” category. No mention of tinfoil suits, flying cars, or food in pill-form, so bonus points to them for that.
