The art of keeping up with yesterday's blogging
What Famous Leader Are You? Via Foreign Dispatches.
A final design has been chosen for the World Trade Center memorial. In the end, the jury seemed to see the same thing so many people have seen at the World Trade Center site since Sept. 11, 2001: what is not there. Faced with many possible additions to the site, jurors in the memorial competition… Continue reading WTC Memorial
Happy new year, readers. May 2004 be better than 2003 in every way. I haven’t been blogging lately. I have been sick, busy and lazy. Also, I am not exactly in a blogging mood. Expect me back when I return to Atlanta on sunday.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Enjoy the holidays.
California is where you should live. Unless of course you lied on the quiz which would be stupid. It’s crowded as balls there but the weather is perfect, except for the occasional earthquake. What State Is Perfect For You? brought to you by Quizilla Via Virginia Postrel.
What Is Your Animal Personality? brought to you by Quizilla Via Ejaz Asi.
Apparently, all these years of grad school have gone to waste. Despite being out of undergrad for a decade, I am still one at heart. You are an undergraduate! Your mind has not yet warped into the utter oddness of contemporary theory. If you put down the beer bong, and start reading dreafully weird theory,… Continue reading What 20th Century Theorist Are You?
Found while net surfing: HijabMan Blog: A very interesting weblog of a progressive Muslim in Canada. Here is his post about the issue of women and mosques. Via Half Past Nomad, I found Plug-n-Pray. They have kits for Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and Hinduist conversion. Here’s what they say. For all eventualities — Plug’n’Pray kits… Continue reading Miscellaneous
Eric Muller has some interesting thoughts on giving speeding tickets on toll highways. It arises for me specifically in the context of the NJ Turnpike, but it pertains to any highway that gives you a toll coupon when you enter the highway and then collects it from you (with a payment) when you leave the… Continue reading Toll and Speeding
According to this article, taller people earn more money than short ones. Apparently, size does matter. According to a recent report by the University of Florida, tall people earn considerably more money than their shorter counterparts throughout life. They earn approximately $789 more per inch, per year, according to the experts. Timothy Judge and Daniel… Continue reading Taller = Richer?