I thought this was really cool. Did you spot the trick?
(best to watch the video before reading the comments)
First seen on Aphra Behn’s blog.
24 Thursday May 2007
Posted in miscellany, video
I thought this was really cool. Did you spot the trick?
(best to watch the video before reading the comments)
First seen on Aphra Behn’s blog.
26 Thursday Apr 2007
Posted in books & writing, health & happiness, media, rants, video, weird

Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this ‘new thought’ may just be new marketing.
Reading some of the excerpts in the Newsweek article, you’d almost think it was a spoof book if not for the millions of copies sold and the public support of celebs like Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and Nicole Kidman. Are people really so desperately needy and pathetically gullible? The mind reels …
You’d think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. But our inexhaustible appetite for “affirmation” and “inspiration” and “motivation” has finally outstripped the combined efforts of Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins, Dr. Phil and Mitch Albom. We have actually begun importing self-help—and from Australia, of all places, that citadel of tough-minded individualism…
19 Thursday Apr 2007
Posted in culture, life stuff, miscellany, music, philosophy, video
An oldie but a goodie . . .
Once attributed to the late Kurt Vonnegut, though in fact written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, I was reminded of this when I recently advised Nog to do one thing every day that scared him (and no, living with me doesn’t count 😉 ).
Then today I found this rather nice video of the Baz Luhrmann version.
11 Sunday Mar 2007
That’s right … godtube.
Christians don’t use circular logic!!!
The Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics ask circular questions!!! (I can see through your deception heathens.)
Oy vey! What’s with the balaclava? And then there is also Creationwiki.
~Have a nice day~
27 Tuesday Feb 2007
Posted in culture, life stuff, trips, video
Probably almost everyone has seen this already, but I just came across it the other day and thought it was pretty cool. I wonder why he’s never danced in Spain…