- Download YouTube videos to your PC (in case you’re afraid a particular video going to get a takedown notice).
- God’s Holiester-than-Thou Congresscritters. At least they seem to think so. Wow, Colorado is “blessed” with two in the Top Ten!
- RIP Wally Schirra — the only man to fly in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft.
- Holy moley! A 1-foot wide chicken-eating spider! Yikes!
- Birth of a Parrot. One of those “So Homely It’s Cute” sort of critters.
- A kitchen of the future (1999), as of 1967. I just wanna know what’s in that flower she keeps sniffing …
- The origin of Hitler’s moustache.
- The Eight Deadly Sins of E-Mail. Yeah … but you know most of us have done most of ‘em at one time or another …
- Why do multiple choice tests suck? Because there are usually multiple answers. And, of course, in a standardized test setting, you can’t argue, seek clarification, or even get feedback as to what the desired result was.
- Spouses really do tend to die soon after one another.
WIST
- Madison, James -- Letter, Philadelphia (9 Jun 1782) 4-Jul-09
- Rogers, Fred -- AP Interview 4-Jul-09
- ~Other -- Constitution of the United States, preamble (17 Sep 1787) 4-Jul-09
- Hazlitt, William -- “The Times Newspaper” Political Essays (1819) 4-Jul-09
- Stevenson, Adlai Ewing -- Speech, American Legion convention, New York City (27 Aug 1952) 4-Jul-09
Doing Write
- ?Conspiracy Theory? 2-Jun-09
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The applesauce question made me chuckle, because the correct answer depends on whether you consider applesauce to be a liquid or a solid. If the question involved an unambiguous subject, there’d be no problem.
Yeah — but ambiguity is just what does in so many m/c questions.