A tumblog from Steve Ledbetter. He engages in a constant power struggle with his cat, aspires to edit video, and is more caffeinated than most humans.
Oolong has disease-fighting antioxidants, say Chinese researchers. Green may protect your gums, a 2009 Japanese study finds. And black may ward off Parkinson’s disease, notes a 2008 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Christopher Day, t…
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SeoulBrother: Silent Ringtone
You guys read about that conductor who stopped his performance mid-symphony because someone (Patron X) didn’t turn off or silence their cell phone?
We’ve all been interrupted mid-event, mid-meeting or mid-sentence by our own “Eat something” Bell Tower or the “Cancel abortion appointment!!!!”…
Finally: U.S. Post Office To Issue Miles Davis Stamp
milesdavisonline.comIt’s about time. Here is a link and snippet of text below from the news item via TheTelegraph.com. Linn’s Stamp News announced that stamps honoring Davis and French singer Edith Piaf would be issued in 2012 as part of a joint issue with French…
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Joe Paterno, 85, dies in State College
ESPN.com news services, go.comNCAA FB
Joe Paterno has died at the age of 85 after experiencing serious complications from lung-cancer treatment.
The health of Paterno, who had fought the disease for two months, had grown progressively worse after he recently…
Joe is a legend, despite how he handled the situation that cost him his job. A lot of kids became men under Joe’s watch. Life was better for him doing what he did for 40+ years. RIP.
Urban Sledding in Seattle
Man arrested for possessing a buttock of Saddam
Posted By: Laura Weisman ( Email ), sfgate.comA man in England has been arrested for possessing part of a statue of Saddam Hussein — one half of his buttocks, more accurately “a buttock” — which is a violation of the 2003 Iraq Sanctions Order prohibiting the importation of…
Five Medical Innovations of the Civil War
Miss Cellania, neatorama.comLast year marked the 150th anniversary of the first gunshots of the Civil War -and the first gunshot wounds. As it turns out, the bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civ…
Etta James, R.I.P.
Posted by Ben Greenman, newyorker.comThe death of Etta James on Friday, at the age of seventy-three, came as no surprise. She had been suffering from dementia and leukemia for the past two years, had not performed in public for longer, and had, upon the release of “The Dreame…
