The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Grapefruit Is a Culprit in More Drug Reactions
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/grapefruit-is-a-culprit-in-more-drug-reactions/
I have never been a huge fan of grapefruit (or drugs, though I tend to pound the ibuprofen when I get a migraine), but I know that lots of people like …
California Sutter’s Mill meteorite entered Earth’s atmosphere at 64,000 mph
http://www.slashgear.com/california-sutters-mill-meteorite-entered-earths-atmosphere-at-64000-mph-21261928/
Note that the explosion was estimated to be about a quarter of size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Tunguska event, for comparison, was estimated to …
Will your next burger be ground-up mealworms?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/20/will-your-next-burger-be-ground-up-mealworms/
Having watched Survivorman a lot (I have been interested in survival since a kid, though seldom put any of my knowledge to test/use) I believe that the right bugs might actually be …
Well, I hope it won’t be a vanity patent, of course, but unless this is finally my winning lotto ticket that is what it will turn into.
As some of my reader(s) may know, I have been working on an …
Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency
Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgment?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/bernstein-murdoch-ailes-petreaus-presidency
Yawn! Another billionaire tried to buy the …
I happened across this and thought my reader(s) might find it amusing…
http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2006/06/marketing_101.html…
Newtown kids v. Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions?
Numerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens’ deaths are perceived. What explains it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/19/newtown-drones-children-deaths
I commented earlier a bit on the Newtown tragedy where I …
Dumb and dummies: Italian trio held over shop break-in
Rome police hold veteran thieves who pretended to be mannequins during alleged theft of designer clothes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/17/shop-dummy-italian-thieves-arrested
Not so amusing to the thieves, I am sure, but quite amusing to me! …
I am not a gun nut. Said the gun nut as he brought out his arsenal. No, really, I am not a gun nut. I have a couple of rifles and at some point intend on buying a couple of …
New York’s top court highlights the meaninglessness and menace of the term ‘terrorism’
A fascinating new ruling unwittingly illustrates the separate system of ‘justice’ invented for Muslims in the US after 9/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/16/court-terrorism-morales-gangs-meaningless
I talked about the meaninglessness of the …