Lip Balm Anonymous: Recovery: http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/recovery.html now there is help….

Soup: I make a mean soup. Last night I made myself a vegetable chowder. Reheated, this is the best soup in the history of the world. And I’m eating that vegetable chowder now with homemade bread, too. And all is well with the world.

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / The Llama Song: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php llama tenderloin tastes good.

TalkLeft: Third Circuit: Shaving Your Head is Not a Search: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/008669.html ——- so the basic idea is if they can see it, they can test it, if it non-invasive. that seems awful close to, if we see it, we own it’…. so our public presentation is searchable in its entirety?

Living Free and Easy: Kiss those utility bills goodbye. Well, maybe. If you live in a sunny — but not humid — area, you may be able to live in a zero-energy home. By John Gartner. —— this should make the bushies and the oil barons very nervous, expect regulations.

Genius for hire: So you’ve been looking and looking for a job and not getting hired. You’ve started to wonder if it’s the way you look or–horrors!–smell. Take heart. Clearly the problem is that you are just too darned intelligent for your own good. World’s cleverest woman can’t find a job ….Bulgarian Daniela Simidchieva, a […]

More Reasons to Shop With Cash: Shopping with credit cards is more likely to land you in a database. Sounds to us like it’s time to revert to cash. [link via Kevin Drum}… —– more and more, i’m thinking this is my direction, cash and carry.

Italian university rectors sign Berlin Declaration: The rectors of 32 Italian universities signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge on Friday. (The signatures will soon appear on the Berlin signature page but are not up yet.) The rectors had gathered for the conference, Gli atenei italiani per l’Open Access: verso l’accesso aperto alla […]

VDARE.com: 11/05/04 – An Election That Will Live In Infamy: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/041105_infamy.htm sure they are conservative…. but at least they know right from wrong…..

Academia resources: Paul W. Schleck has collected a fine list of resources about academia generally and grad school in particular, including quite a few things I hadn’t seen before. Worth checking out. —— dorothea points to some interesting notes on academia… i like the argument on how and why universities and others create the idea […]