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Owl Pellets for February 19th through March 8th

Monday, March 8th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for February 19th through March 8th:

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Owl Pellets for February 17th through February 19th

Friday, February 19th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for February 17th through February 19th:

  • Left Behind – The sad truth is everything we are seeing we have already seen. Despite presidents who come and go, permanent war is a hallowed American institution. Start if you will with the War of 1812, the invasion of Mexico, and the carnage of a Civil War. Move to the mass murder of Native Americans and theft of their property, the killing, torture, and prison camps in the Philippines, then the blood-drenched 20th century. The 21st likewise dawns red. It never changes. Doves protest, hawks rule, ordinary people pay the penalty. All wars are “just.”
  • Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author (by Lauren Leto) – I like stereotypes and I like authors so . . .
  • Print Roger Ebert: The Essential Man – It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
  • Dirk Hayhurst Article About His Shoulder Injury -
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Owl Pellets for February 17th from 12:30 to 18:45

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

These are my undigested internets for February 17th from 12:30 to 18:45:

  • Brainwashed by a parasite « Neurophilosophy – The spores of the fungus attach themselves to the external surface of the ant, where they germinate. They then enter the ant’s body through the tracheae (the tubes through which insects breathe), via holes in the exoskeleton called spiracles. Fine fungal filaments called mycelia then start to grow inside the ant’s body cavity, absorbing the host’s soft tissues but avoiding its vital organs.
  • Parasite Makes Ants Resemble Berries – Fruit pickers beware. That red berry might actually be an infested ant’s rear end.
  • Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War | Technoccult – “Undoubtedly, one of the prime reasons why Dick attracted attention from the FBI was a series of bizarre letters he penned to the Bureau in the early 1970s, in which he described his personal knowledge of an alleged underground Nazi cabal that was attempting to covertly manipulate science fiction writers to further advance its hidden cause.”
  • Evo Morales launches ‘Coca Colla’ – Telegraph – Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president and known for chewing coca leaves at UN meetings, has launched a drink featuring the leaf called “Coca Colla”.
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Owl Pellets for February 9th through February 17th

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

These are my undigested internets for February 9th through February 17th:

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Owl Pellets for February 4th through February 8th

Monday, February 8th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for February 4th through February 8th:

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Owl Pellets for February 1st through February 3rd

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

These are my undigested internests for February 1st through February 3rd:

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Owl Pellets for January 28th through February 1st

Monday, February 1st, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 28th through February 1st:

  • The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right | Popular Science – “Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in with Macintosh? My, how times have changed. Here we are more than 25 years later and the despotic, all-knowing face up there on that giant screen now belongs to Steve Jobs—and Big Brother Steve is holding an iPad.”
  • Study finds reduced brain gray matter concentration in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea – A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found gray matter concentration deficits in multiple brain areas of people with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The study suggests that the memory impairment, cardiovascular disturbances, executive dysfunctions, and dysregulation of autonomic and respiratory control frequently observed in OSA patients may be related to morphological changes in brain structure.
  • Slashdot Hardware Story | Evolving Robots Learn To Prey On Each Other – “Dario Floreano and Laurent Keller report in PLoS ONE how their robots were able to rapidly evolve complex behaviors such as collision-free movement, homing, predator versus prey strategies, cooperation, and even altruism. A hundred generations of selection controlled by a simple neural network were sufficient to allow robots to evolve these behaviors. Their robots initially exhibited completely uncoordinated behavior, but as they evolved, the robots were able to orientate, escape predators, and even cooperate. The authors point out that this confirms a proposal by Alan Turing who suggested in the 1950s that building machines capable of adaptation and learning would be too difficult for a human designer and could instead be done using an evolutionary process. The robots aren’t yet ready to compete in Robot Wars, but they’re still pretty impressive.”
  • Homeopathy: Overdosing on nothing – opinion – 29 January 2010 – New Scientist – AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic “overdose”. Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.
  • BUNNY ROGER | ENGLISH STYLE ICON YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF « The Selvedge Yard – He invented the tight-cut Capri trousers while on holiday on the island in 1949, and by the 1950s he was sponsoring a neo-Edwardian silhouette – four-button jackets with generous shoulders and mean waists, lapelled waistcoats, high-cut trousers – for plain, checked and striped suits. Accessories, whether a high-crowned bowler or ruby cuff-links, were indispensable.
  • Web-Surfing Chimp Target of Porno Spam | GlossyNews.com – “I have to check Charlie’s laptop several times a day to make sure he isn’t exposed to any media, especially explicit photos, that would confuse him and compromise the progress he is making,” said Lively. “Already we are seeing him using new, inappropriate signs, like balling up his hands into fists, holding them at his sides, and thrusting his pelvis in a ‘to and fro’ in a highly suggestive manner.”
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Owl Pellets for January 24th through January 28th

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 24th through January 28th:

  • Haiti quake raises fears of child-eating spirits - – PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – “The earthquake that shattered Haiti has unleashed fears that child-eating spirits, mythological figures entrenched in Haitian culture, are prowling homeless camps in search of young prey.” You know, I think Madonna might be one of these loups-garous.
  • 30 Awesome Orange Websites For Your Inspiration | Web Design Tutorials and Inspiration | Learn Photoshop Online | Creative Inspiration | Web Resources – I was kinda worried about the amount of orange on this site. Liked how it looked but wasn’t sure how hard it is on the eyes. But I only had one complaint –from a friend who is always complaining anyway and that’s not an invitation for you to start-. Looking at these other orange sites, I find I don’t mind the colour at all..
  • Ubuntu to use Yahoo as default search engine – TechSpot News – This is probably interesting to about 10 people but I’m one of them. Big announcement on the day of the iPad Launch.
  • Blue Jays GM Confirms There Never Really Was A ‘Roy Halladay’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – TORONTO—Responding to criticism that the team should have done more to deal star pitcher Roy Halladay by the trade deadline, Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi revealed at a press conference Monday that there was no such person as the alleged six-time All-Star.
  • Carlton Fisk blasts Mark McGwire – chicagotribune.com – “But when you have some of these obscene numbers being put up by people who shouldn’t even be there. … I mean, you know what’s going on. … The people it should have been most obvious to are the people who covered it up by not addressing it . . . You don’t blame people for not ratting them out; you blame the people who abused the pharmaceutical world. It’s not like you are taking a couple of aspirin and you don’t know what’s going on. (Non-prescription steroid use has been) a federal offense for a long time, regardless of whether baseball was recognizing it and putting rules into place. The people who did it … they were breaking the law to start with. It doesn’t have to be a baseball law. They knew what they were doing and the reason they were doing it. Now they are sorry because they are getting called out.” What else is new, Carlton?
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Owl Pellets for January 23rd through January 24th

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 23rd through January 24th:

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Owl Pellets for January 21st through January 23rd

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 21st through January 23rd:

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Owl Pellets for January 4th through January 18th

Monday, January 18th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 4th through January 18th:

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Owl Pellets for January 3rd through January 4th

Monday, January 4th, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 3rd through January 4th:

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Owl Pellets for January 2nd through January 3rd

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

These are my undigested internests for January 2nd through January 3rd:

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Owl Pellets for December 4th through December 12th

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

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Owl Pellets for November 27th through November 29th

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

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