- Download YouTube videos to your PC [1] (in case you’re afraid a particular video going to get a takedown notice).
- God’s Holiester-than-Thou Congresscritters [2]. At least they seem to think so. Wow, Colorado is “blessed” with two in the Top Ten!
- RIP Wally Schirra [3] — the only man to fly in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft.
- Holy moley! A 1-foot wide chicken-eating spider [4]! Yikes!
- Birth of a Parrot [5]. One of those “So Homely It’s Cute” sort of critters.
- A kitchen of the future (1999) [6], as of 1967. I just wanna know what’s in that flower she keeps sniffing …
- The origin of Hitler’s moustache [7].
- The Eight Deadly Sins of E-Mail [8]. 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 [9]. 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 [10].
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2 Comments To "Potpourri, Monday Edition"
#1 Comment By steve On Mon 7-May-07 5:06pm @ 5:06pm
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.
#2 Comment By *** Dave On Mon 7-May-07 7:05pm @ 7:05pm
Yeah — but ambiguity is just what does in so many m/c questions.