"Why else do coffins have padding? Of course, to be fair, there are also potential gains from involvement in cryonics which are also independent of whether the technique works or not. Chiefest of these is that cryonics provides a certain amount of comfort for the non-believer. Some of the sting of death can be removed if there remains a chance, however small, that death is not permanent. Of course, the cynic will comment that freezing a corpse is much like putting leftover food in the refrigerator because one cannot immediately tolerate the waste implied in throwing it away. Even if the food is never re-warmed, it is easier to discard if done in two separate steps. So it is, perhaps, with a dead loved-one. Yet comfort is comfort."
"Did some kids just come into your police precinct, flipping out about monsters and you didn't believe them? Your spouse is getting a folded flag, yo."
It's quite the list... Here's a few you might hate. Be sure to go add your own!
Surfin Bird....Trashmen
He Hit me and it Felt like a Kiss....Crystals
Laurie...Dickie Lee
Hooray for Hazel....Bobby Roe
Yummy Yummy Yummy....1919 Fruit Gum Co.
Unicorn Song...Irish Rovers
I've Never Been to Me...Charlene
Seasons in the Sun...Terry Jacks
Ringo...Lorne Green
Gallant Men....Senator Everett Dirkson
My BC and Ripe Magazine are running a contest themed around "what BC looks like". Selected photos will be published in Ripe Magazine's Summer 2006 issue. The deadline for entries is April 15, 2006.
"Scan the headlines of 2005 and one question seems inevitable: Will we recall this as the year when journalism in print began to die?" The answer: Nope.
Marketing GENIUSES! They let the hacker community figure out how to do this themselves, reap all the buzz of that discovery, then release a piece of software they've already developed that does exactly the same thing. Presto, they just got a free zillion dollars in publicity.
1300 posts in two years, that's nothing to sneeze at. Oh, and ditto for Simon Tanglao. You're both two years old now. Here's to another two, and two more, and two more, and...
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)