Workout Mix

I just made it though “week 2″ of the Couch to 5k program.  I stalled a bit last week while in Florida, only getting one week in since we were pretty much on the go until 9pm each day, and the muggy conditions made outside activity rather unpleasant for much of the day. I did [...]

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People Doing Great Things

I found this story on CNN this morning.  A group of scientists has used what they call “precision breeding” to create rice that is more resistent to the kind of flooding that happens in places like Bangladesh, where a failed rice crop is a matter of life and death.  Most forms of rice can only [...]

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Dear Prudence: Inauguration Edition

I enjoy Slate’s weekly column “Dear Prudence” where writer Emily Yoffee dispenses advices to readers’ quandaries.  Slate also started a weekly video version of the column as well.  I’m not a fan of the animations they use, but this week’s video is Obama/inauguration themed and features advice for both the overly hopeful afraid of a [...]

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Legoland Inauguration

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Pajamas!

I have no idea what the context for this is, but saw it over at Shakesville. How cute

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Scribe Fire

I came across Scribe Fire earlier today when I was looking at add-ons and extensions for Mozilla Firefox.  It made it so that I can log into my blog and create posts right in my Firefox browser instead of having to go to WordPress.  I’m just trying this out right now to see how it [...]

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Slate – Encyclopedia Baracktannica

OK, I lied, I have to post about this before I can go be productive. Slate has a cute new feature where they post the many ways that readers have used Barack Obama’s name to create words. Some of my favorites are: Obambadier (“a campaign staffer in charge of direct mailings”) and Baracturnal [...]

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