My weblog turns seven years old this year, and it all started with a scam email I received back in December 2000. More on that below, but first this: A 107 year-old woman in Australia now has a blog. She has someone type it for her, but it is amazing nonetheless. Despite being 107, she…
Category: Random
Do Not Exceed 48 Tablets in 24 Hours
This is off a label of Bayer Low Dose “Baby” Aspirin. There’s nothing wrong with this label, as each tablet only has 81mg of aspirin, perfect for people who just want to take an aspirin daily to prevent artery clogging or whatever other positive effects aspirin has. The funny part is that you can safely…
YouTube Beats Out Vaccine for Cancer-Causing STD
“YouTube, the video-sharing Web site recently acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease and a shirt that simulates a hug to grab top honors as Time magazine’s Invention of the Year for 2006.” That’s what I got to read in my local newspaper yesterday…
“Houston, We Have a Light Rail Problem”
In the 1960s Houston, like many U.S. cities, decided to abandon its streetcar network. Thirty years later it decided it wanted it back, in its modern form, light rail. On January 1, 2004, its new METRORail system began operation… And then everybody crashed into it. Houston’s light rail crash rate was 25 times the national…
Redheads Feel Less Pain
Here’s something random: Apparently redheads feel less pain. Well, for now it at least seems that “redheaded mice” feel less pain. This was the result of a study at the Medical Research Council in London. The mice weren’t redheaded of course, but they were injected with a morphine-like substance that apparently redheads produce. So apparently…