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• news

  Hot sauce as pain killer

  10.30.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Salon, just for my dad: Doctors Test Hot Sauce for Pain Relief (thanks B):

  Scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery.
  Doctors are dripping the chemical that gives chili peppers their fire directly into open wounds during knee replacement and a few other highly painful [...]

• personal

  Happy birthday niko!

  10.17.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yesterday was Niko’s second birthday! We just had a couple of people over for pizza and cupcakes. Niko had a wonderful time!
  Thanks for the loads of presents! Niko is very blessed.

• news

  More from our series on aliens in america

  10.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The 6th Man on the Moon says - ‘We’ve had visitors’ (from digg).

  For those who might consider his statements farfetched, Mitchell, who has a doctorate in science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted that 30 years ago it was accepted that man was alone in the universe. Few people believe that now, he said.

  Why [...]

• personal

  Things we’ve learned on Ca$h Cab

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Things we’ve learned watching Ca$h Cab:

  your true nature emerges only within the confines of a tv show based in a cab
  the host Ben Bailey is our hero
  people don’t ask for help from friends or strangers on the street as often as they should
  there is an alpha (fe)male in every group
  the alpha (fe)male in a group [...]

• personal

  Rottenneighbor.com

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was a bit disappointed to not see any of our neighbors at rottenneighbor.com.

• politics

  Generation Q

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  From Thomas Friedman at the nyt: Generation Q “may be too quiet, too online, for its own good, and for the country’s own good”: “Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy didn’t change the world by asking people to join their Facebook crusades or to download their platforms.”

• personal

  why vets are the best

  10.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From Meagan (”why vets are the best”): Deadly Contact: how humans and animals exchange disease.

• politics

  Insect robot spies

  10.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the washington post: Insect robot spies seen at antiwar rallies (from digg).

• business

  eharmony turning away customers?

  10.09.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  We learned tonight that eharmony.com has been known to “reject” customers: “We don’t know why eHarmony has rejected over a million people looking for love”. Apparently this is part of a $10m advertising campaign by chemistry.com. But why? Dating sites are not in the business of turning down paying customers.
  And while I missed the whole [...]

• personal

  Gossip girl picked up

  10.09.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Our favorite new show Gossip Girl was picked up for a full season. Yay!
  xoxo

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