[links] Link salad hump day edition
Wake up, smell the music with Japan perfume download — Smell-O-Vision finally comes to life, in Japan, home of all that is too weird to be cool and too cool to be weird. Best line: "NTT Communications also plans to conduct trials of another service that would allow mobile phone users to send files with scent attachments."
Earth's Crust Shows Long-Term Wiggle Room — New thinking about continental plates.
A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity — The creative disease. Fascinating stuff about cognitive psychology, creativity and selective dementia. (Thanks to GS.)
1692 in America — A year of history in a year of blogging. Deeply cool. This is going on my daily blogroll.
Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars — Luxury condos for fish. Interesting story about re-use. (Thanks to my dad.)
CFI Issues Critique of Civics Textbook — This is pretty interesting. I especially like: "the alleged influence of the religious concept of “original sin” on the structure of the Constitution." Christianists seem to want to distory the reality of our entire society to fit their worldview. Except when they need antibiotics or a decently educated doctor, of course. (Thanks to
4/9/08
Time in saddle: 17 minutes
Last night's weigh-out: n/a
This morning's weigh-in: 275.0
Currently reading: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon [ Powell's | Amazon ]
