Hills MD Prescription diet dry food is contaminated with melamine. This is starting to get a bit close to home.
March 2007 Archives
Firefox
…is crashing on me roughly every other day. Is this consistent with others’ experience, or am I just a bad Mozilla owner? (I don’t think I’m trying to do anything especially crash-inducing)
England expects… you to do what your captors tell you to
Sir Alan West, First Sea Lord (these titles — truly mirth-making) in 2004 when Iran detained eight servicemen, comments on the current situation: What training would the personnel have been given to help them in the event of capture? These particular people would not be trained in counter-interrogation techniques because they are not expected tocontinue reading
I survived Vegas
Went to Vegas with my family and Randy for my mom’s 60th. They liked Cirque du Soleil and the short flight to the Grand Canyon was actually fun.
Ads, they understand. Bike racks, not so much.
The “street furniture” proposals are on display. One of the Spacing folks helpfully broke the PDFs into images for easier viewing. (He’s not making the images CC licensed, though [oddly] so no direct links.) All the bike racks suck. They’re either flimsy-looking, impossible to lock to safely (locking both frame and at least one wheel,continue reading
Spacing.ca intersection
Today’s has me totally stumped. It’s a signalled intersection on a fairly wide street, with some sort of dead end or curve the better part of a mile away.
England expects; or, I cannot answer that question, sir.
I’m trying to get inside Leading Seaman Turney’s head. (Sordid details here.) “Obviously we trespassed into their waters,” British sailor Faye Turney said on the video broadcast by Al-Alam, an Arabic-language, Iranian state-run television station that is carried across the Middle East. “They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people. They explainedcontinue reading
Research dollars at work
Toppling televisions are a hazard for tots: Halifax researchers March 28, 2007 – 14:12 Call me Milton, but does public money really need to be spent to figure this one out?
Arrrrr
I’m not sure I believe a word of this, but it’s a great story. Toronto Star, February 27, 1911.
Mild weirdness
Does anyone know what the source of the first comment on the Via Oliveto thread is?