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This could have been added to the 1000 monkeys thread, but I thought an old friend deserves her own post. While flipping channels, I ran into Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, who I remember from junior high school. She's now one of the top researchers in parapsychology, which she was defending on Closer to Truth. This shows up on channel 25, which has the PBS stuff that channel 13 turns its nose up at. The show was quite balanced and reasonable, which I suppose translates as too boring for the masses. Then again, rational parapsychology, which mostly rests on tiny statistical deviations, may be a tough sell. Marilyn's best finding to date involved doing double blind experiments alongside a skeptical colleague. She got her usual good results, but he got nothing, proving that the mindset of the scientist (in magic we call that the "operator") affects the result of the experiment. This could cause problems down the road…
- alex 12-30-2002 9:16 pm [link] [add a comment]

Here's a blog from Baghdad. I haven't read too much of it, but it might be interesting. Especially if it can stay on the air.
- jim 12-28-2002 9:31 pm [link] [add a comment]

if 1000 monkeys...
- dave 12-28-2002 4:46 am [link] [3 comments]

If we take Christmas far enough (that is, to Easter), we’ll wind up drinking blood. Like they do in Malawi.
- alex 12-25-2002 8:12 pm [link] [2 comments]

Reversing the previous administration's position, the city now favors turning Chelsea's old High Line elevated railway into a park.
- alex 12-23-2002 5:58 pm [link] [add a comment]

Russ and Daughters gets the Lovevibe
"Asshole Retailer of the Year Award" for 2002!!

- Skinny 12-21-2002 6:27 pm [link] [7 comments]

Mrs. Dweezil Zappa's cam. Click "reload" to see if she's on. No nudity.
- tom moody 12-19-2002 7:43 am [link] [3 refs] [add a comment]

Yesterday I sat around waiting for the phone company to send a repairman, and looks like tomorrow I'll be doing it again. Yesterday they restored the dial tone, but there's still a loud hum on the line. This happens on the average of once every 3 months. The phone poles behind my apt. are old and decrepit and whenever it snows (or the sun shines too hard) my phone goes out. They never really fix the problem. The repairman does some kind of patch and then the phone's OK for a while, then the cycle starts again. I'm supposed to sit and wait from 8 am to 7pm and if they don't show up (which they often don't) I go through the whole thing on another day. According to one of the repairmen, the company had several million marked for infrastructure repair and it all went to CEOs in the last merger. I totally believe it. Anyway, the company's name is VERIZON (stupid name--like a ten year old's idea of clever: "vertical + horizon"? gimme a break) and they SUCK.
- tom moody 12-18-2002 9:35 pm [link] [1 ref] [10 comments]

im working this one (truck driiver) Recomended



- bill 12-15-2002 12:58 am [link] [1 comment]

Trent-chant Commentary

Just when I thought I had this war-blogger thing figured out, 2nd generation neocon John Podhoretz comes along to explain what's really going on in cybersville. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy and, you know, powerful, ha ha ha…

- alex 12-13-2002 11:59 pm [link] [12 comments]

froogle your holiday shopping.
- linda 12-13-2002 6:16 pm [link] [add a comment]

From the (extended) family:
Bird artist Jonathan Alderfer talks about the new edition of the National Geographic Field Guide.

- alex 12-11-2002 9:38 pm [link] [add a comment]

nudie suits



- bill 12-11-2002 2:09 am [link] [8 comments]

for the first time in a long while i didnt have to work on a saturday so i took the time to cook, nap and be a couch potatoe......to get in the spirit of the holidays i watched the following 4 movies in a row 1) No Mans Land (Bosnian War), 2) Pearl Harbor (WW2), 3) Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam War), and 4) ???title?? CNN news team in (Iraq/Kuwait) War.....

- Skinny 12-08-2002 7:48 pm [link] [3 comments]

bird blogger
- dave 12-06-2002 11:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

robert redford's great op-ed on energy independence from monday's LA Times
- big jimmy 12-04-2002 9:42 pm [link] [2 comments]

New (to me) get your war on page.
- jim 12-02-2002 6:09 pm [link] [2 comments]