The WorldWideWeb brings us lots of good and interesting resources. I don't know if this one of them:
At 8:30PM tonight local time, a lot of folks are turning off their lights in support of Earth Hour 2009.Be sure to switch on every light in your home between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. tonight as a way to protest this madness.We report. You decide who's the wingnut.
| 10 Jobs You Didn’t Hear About On Career Day | Gong Farmer cleans toilets and gets to keep the spare change that he finds. After five years, they give me a brush." on  |
| Webmaster for world peace | Best job title ever. |
| The 10 Best Jobs in America Today | #7 is historian. A search for historian jobs on their web site, however, has 18 leads, not a lot. |
| The 10 Worst Jobs in America Today | Hint: cue Monty Python Lumberjack Song on |
| Unskilled and Unaware of It | There's a lot of research coming out that describes how we, consistently and confidently, overestimate our abilities. Most people describe themselves as above average in abilities. The people who are most accurate in predicting their abilities are the ones who believe that they're not good at something. |
| Your Job When You Grow Up | From Scott Adams's blog: I was thinking of this recently while working with a Dilbert licensee. They make fluorescent light diffusers for your office ceiling, with images such as the sky with clouds, or Dilbert characters looking down at your cube. Very cool: www.skyscapes.biz So I imagine 5-year old Timmy, when asked what he wants to do for a career, answering “When I grow up, I want to make fluorescent light diffusers with Dilbert characters. They are the perfect item for adding some visual relief to drab cubicle farms.” Timmy would die a virgin. |
| Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy | Increasingly, web sites are relying on unpaid staff because writers are
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"Don't for one second doubt that delegates to a Con Con wouldn't revise the First Amendment into a government-controlled privilege, replace the 2nd Amendment with a 'collective' right to self-defense, and abolish the 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments, and the rest of the Bill of Rights," said the warning from the American Policy Center.
"Additions could include the non-existent separation of church and state, the 'right' to abortion and euthanasia, and much, much more," the group said.
The Charlottetown "Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew" Guardian reports that the East Coast seal hunt opens in southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
And, in the odd chance that you wanted to see more, there's more.
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 | Only at Walgreens can you celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior with a 4 ft. Lighted Airblown Inflatable Bunny. |
 | At Rite-Aid, with Altered State nitric oxide supplement, perhaps you can build the muscle that would let you roll away the stone, but the product info doesn't say that it works when you're dead. |
 | Meanwhile, at CVS, you can get an Animated Easter Friend. They're not even calling it a bunny.But, it's animated, so it's got life and life is what Easter's all about, isn't it? |
We'd be delighted if we destabilize the human-mosquito balance of power," says Jordin Kare, an astrophysicist who once worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.I think that you'd have to be a pretty good shot, but Monty Python has already shown us how it could be done.
The current breathless brouhaha regarding bloggers, the future of newspapers and the news industry, the World Wide Web, and the Twittersphere is just one more round in a centuries-old struggle to define what it means to think and act on those thoughts in society.Worcestershire Journal - News, not news, rinse, repeat - Part 2 : Real Worcester - Worcester News and Blogs
We learn that AIG will pay $450 Million in bonuses to the gys in the Financial Services business (WSJ, subscription) to the guys who ran the credit default swaps and other hustles that we've had to pay $173.3 billion in aid to keep the parent company from imploding. CEO Edward Liddy said that the compay is contractually obligated to pay these bonuses. "Honoring contractual commitments is at the heart of what we do in the insurance business."
(PETA) President Ingrid Newkirk has come up with this: George Clooney-flavored tofu.In a letter sent to the actor, Newkirk said that PETA has been offered his gym towel (obtained right here in D.C.!) and wants to use his sweat to create Clooney tofu that will "spare animals from being killed for the table." She went on to explain that the science is pretty simple, like "making artificial chicken flavor for instant gravy."
According to a Reuters report, the Vatican observed International Women's Day by opining that the washing machine liberated 20th century women most. Gee, I might have picked the 19th amendment, at least in the U.S., or any number of firsts for women in politics, science, or literature.
But, nah, it's this guy:
The forecasters are calling for a shimmering glop of rain, sleet, and snow. It's another of those elevation-dependent storms, so a couple hundred feet can make the difference between wet and white.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.The treaty was approved unanimously by the Senate and signed by John Adams.
The New York Times is reporting that free throw statistics in professional and college basketball haven't changed (for better or worse) in 50 years. With all else that's improved in the sport over the years, you'd think that the easiest shot would have gotten easier. Wilt Chamberlain, by the way, a guy who could score a 100 points in a game was so bad at free throws that he resorted to a two-handed underhand shot that improved his scores only slightly.
"Right now we believe that we are in a very comfortable spot in terms of our capital." (July 17, 2008 -- Thain on a conference call after posting Merrill's second-quarter results)
