Wow, still active and Hong Kong is built on unexploded WW II weaponry! See the link below for a blast of a photograph. Giant WWII mine detonated at English seaside town – Boing Boing
Archive | April, 2008
The QWERTY Myth
Reason Magazine – Typing Errors This article goes on at length about the myth of of the QWERTY typewriter being slow and the Dvorak one being so much more efficient. I’ve told the story before but now I see that I am partly wrong. The story is that the original mechanical typewriters had to have [...]
The Lost Pilot of Gilligans Island
From: » The Lost Pilot of ‘Gilligans Island’ with Calypso theme music Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. includes comments on the origin of the clip.
Fatimah, Mary and the Divine Feminine in Islam
The Sufi poetry teaches the feminine qualities of joy, love, tenderness and self sacrifice on a path of true knowledge derived from the spiritual heart. The spiritual rebirth of the individual is not unlike the trial and tribulation of physical childbirth, according to the Sufis. They take the principle of divine love and use it [...]
Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time – Boing Boing Hmm, though what about getting helmets for the toddlers as advised by Book of Joe.
A Mom’s Day in a Song
Lyrics are here. It is by Anita Renfroe who is according to Wikipedia, an American Christian comedian from Atlanta, Georgia, the wife of a Baptist pastor and the mother of three children.
Skinny wasp like insect and flower
Skinny wasp like insect and flower, originally uploaded by Mister Ian. I had the macro lens on and was poking around the flowers in front. This wasp like insect came and went fast so I wasn’t able to get it. Plus shooting in ambient shade didn’t give the shutter speed to depth of field to [...]
Schism
Al Saeed, a Saudi blogger made a short video called schism featuring alleged Christian extremists preaching violence and a Bible passage calling for war in response to the Dutch anti-Quran film by Geert Wilders. At the end of the video he says, “It is easy to take parts of any holy book that are out [...]
In flight medical emergencies
I’ve see one once when a lady collapse on the other side of the plane. With an aging population, and large planes no doubt it will be more common. bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: Anesthesiologists on a Plane
Saudi Stepford Wife Blog
Saudi gender roles and everyday life are being redefined as you read this. I feel like talking about it, in English, so it can be read in the furthest reaches of the planet.There is more to me than what exists within the domestic sphere and that’s what I’m trying to maintain through this dialogue with [...]
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