Note: I may soon be getting rid of the Asides/Notes From All Over feature in the side panel and replacing it with some kind of weekly “links of interest” post. Just something I’m thinking about …
- A robotic exoskeleton (made by Sarcos, a Utah company) gives human beings much greater strength and endurance - according to the video, enough strength for an individual to load a missile onto an airplane (interesting example choice)
- GDrive - a Google online data storage service, may be on its way
- Scientists create a cancer-resistant mouse that can pass the same cancer-resistant characteristic along to its offspring
- There are indications of change … does it mean spammers are giving up?
- Young chimps test better than adult humans in a memory test.
Politics / World News
- Five Reasons to Be Grateful This Holiday Season [hat tip to Amira at Golden Road to Samarqand]
- In some parts of the Middle East, you can get jail time (and/or lashes with a whip) for being raped or for allowing school children to name a teddy bear Muhammad
LDS/Mormon
- Temple plan announced for El Salvador
- The Wonder of A New Religious Art Tradition by Richard Oman at Times and Seasons
- Mormon Soprano - a blog about what it’s like to sing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- The Dooce challenges BYU servers on a page of posters designed to promote modesty
Scripture Study
- Bible Maps - [thanks to Ben Spackman for bringing this to my attention]
- Judas Iscariot is bad again - [hat tip to Times and Seasons Notes From All Over]
Art
- Drawn! blogs about the Wacom Cintiq 12WX LCD Sketchbook
Strange and/or Humorous
- The artistic and melancholy demise of three chocolate bunnies, with appropriate musical accompaniment (a YouTube video)
- Pencil Bench
- Uranium ore for sale at Amazon - the comments/reviews are a fun read (hat tip to Tingilinde)
Most Tantalizing Cinema Rumor of All Time
Some site is saying it has information that Peter Jackson will be shooting two installments of the Hobbit in 3D but another site says they have confirmed the rumor isn’t true
1Zina on Dec 5, 2007 at 3:09 am:
P.S. I just put Dean’s little stop-motion movies on my blog, here
http://myimaginaryblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/oh-yes-were-white-and-nerdy/
and here
http://myimaginaryblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/thanksgiving-pastimes-part-2-lego-stop-motion/
2Zina on Dec 5, 2007 at 6:32 pm:
This is my 2nd try at this comment –
I think the modesty poster (over whose discussion at dooce BYU’s servers got fried) is pretty silly –
I think when you add opaque leggings to a short-skirted outfit, the leggings do modestly cover the wearer’s legs, effectively “making the skirt modest.” To me it seems absurd to say otherwise.
On the other hand, adding leggings to a short skirt *doesn’t* make the skirt long enough to be approvable within the parameters of the honor code the student signed, so that’s what the poster should say — that whether worn with or without leggings, the skirt is too short. It’s not really about modesty, it’s about keeping to the standards the university has decided on for polite, acceptable public appearance on campus.
3danithew on Dec 5, 2007 at 6:48 pm:
Zina, your comment simply went into moderation. Once I realized it was there I approved it. Hopefully you won’t have additional problems posting comments at this blog.
BTW, I really like what you’re doing at your imaginary blog … one thing I’d do if I were you … go into widgets and put “most recent comments” into the sidebar. Then you and your readers will be able to see where (on what posts) comments are being made.