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links for 2008-04-30

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

INFP Relationships
I dub this my instruction manual. Also my warning label.
(tags: psychology relationships)

links for 2008-04-25

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Cogitamus: How Good People Can Be Guilted Out Of Their Rights
“The range of things that most good people will feel bad about… is wider than the range of things where they do wrong or violate someone’s rights.” Specifically as it applies to abortion, but the entire concept is noteworthy.
(tags: philosophy)

NYC

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Central Park is beautiful in the spring.

And so are the flowers [at Madison Square Park].

I had a great return trip. The weather was much better. The hotel was much better. My legs never got sore, even though I walked just as much. (They didn’t get sore in Paris either, which leads me to laugh at [...]

links for 2008-04-17

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Plants ‘thrive’ on Moon rock diet
“Bernard Foing believes that Europe or one of the other players will eventually decide to plant the seeds of Earth where previously humanity has merely planted flags.”
(tags: science)

Worldwide ‘Love’ Vibe Detected
Love the headline. Makes you think you’re getting New Age Gaia Earth, when you’re actually getting seismology.
(tags: science)

Flowers Are Losing [...]

Zen

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Weekend was fun. Went shopping on Friday for my outdoor container garden and planted it on Saturday. I got a mix of white and blue flowers that grow in the shade, and my normal herbs. I still have mini-roses coming, but I learned last year these don’t bloom well in the shade so I am [...]

Courtesy of Google Analytics

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Things I would like to say to people who have found my website through rather odd search phrases:

“crazier than evangelion”
you’re gonna have a hard time finding that
“aubrey lavinge”
uh, it’s avril
“busstopwho”
I don’t think you’re gonna find your missed connection this way…
“cobwebs and wisdom”
strange combo, there. I must be lacking the wisdom to understand.
“fallon family photos dublin”
would [...]

links for 2008-04-09

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Photos of tourists taking photos of DC Cherry Blossoms
One of my coworkers got caught by someone taking the same sort of pictures. It’s a really cool idea.
(tags: photography)

Quotation Time

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Some of these I need right now; others I just find cute.
“Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.”

links for 2008-04-07

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The Color of Plants on Other Worlds: Scientific American
You probably won’t find this as fascinating as I did. Unless your master’s project was also about the wavelengths of light reflected and absorbed by vegetation, like mine was.
(tags: science)

links for 2008-04-06

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Lessons of the Square Watermelon
Apparently growing a watermelon in a box is an example of thinking out of the box. Worth checking out just for the pictures. These things are funny looking.
(tags: weird)

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