Category: Miscellaneous

From a Slate article, I learn that tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to… Continue reading I Have A Dream

I guess I should start exercising regularly. 🙂 A new study offers an additional reason for men to exercise: It could add years to their sex lives. Researchers hope men will learn from this, and exercise to protect their potency even if they haven’t exercised to protect their hearts. Men over 50 who kept physically… Continue reading A Good Reason to Exercise

Well, it seems men will be extinct soon. MEN are doomed to extinction, victims of the decaying human Y-chromosome, the only piece of DNA men possess and women do not. So says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, in a book that envisages the “Sapphic reproduction” of women by genetic manipulation. A… Continue reading Extinction of Men

Lord of the Rings! What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!) brought to you by Quizilla Via choco-bean.

You have probably heard of the power outage that hit us an hour ago. Power was gone in our apartment for 10-15 minutes. Being from Pakistan, a power outage like this can simply be ignored. Even though the places I have lived in Pakistan got very few outages and blackouts (loadshedding as they called it… Continue reading Power Outage

Via PhotoDude, I find out that today is left handers day. We are more artistic and more talented than our right-handed colleagues…Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. We’re not bad at sport too…Maria Navratilova, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors are only three of the many top tennis stars who were lefties. The world’s… Continue reading Left Handers Day

Via Brian Ulrich, I took a personality test which gives the explanation for my results here and here. Here are the results: Your Type is ISTJ Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging Strength of the preferences % 89 1 89 11 You are: very expressed introvert slightly expressed sensing personality very expressed thinking personality slightly expressed judging… Continue reading Personality Test

The Head Heeb (who I had nice dinner and great conversation with yesterday; thanks, Jonathan) plans to celebrate 349th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in America this September 7 with a blogburst and an offline celebration. Arrival Day commemorates the landing of the first Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam on September 7, 1654. This… Continue reading Arrival Day

I can understand the woman’s reaction, but what kind of porn puts a man to sleep?

I’ll probably not be able to blog tomorrow, it being a 6 hour flight and all. So happy fourth of July to everyone. Go read Justice Robert Jackson’s July 4, 1941 address at Eric Muller’s blog.