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I’m a leftie. All my life, my handwriting has sucked. I’m probably too old to fix it, but I’d like to start working on fixing my penmanship. Can anyone recommend a good way to learn how to improve the mechanics of 30 years of incorrect hand positioning in writing? What can I do to improve the quality of my lettering?
[tags]How do I improve my penmanship?[/tags]
A freeware crossword puzzle maker for you (via Freeware Wiki)
Just one of the few good photos I took back in the summer when I traveled to Ireland. This is a view of an old tombstone at the Rock of Cashel seen while looking out at the nearby Abbey ruins. I love these crosses. I made a walk down to the ruins there, but they weren’t nearly as interesting as the castle itself.
If I ever win the lottery, I’m going back to Ireland. Maybe I’ll stay, even. It’s a beautiful country.
[tags]Ireland, Rock of Cashel[/tags]
What else can you say, when you find out Eva Longoria says something like this?
Eva Longoria has lesbian crushes on Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson and Eva Mendes.
The ‘Desperate Wives’ star says the stunning threesome, who are all neighbours, have a very “special” relationship.
That’s a party I want to go to.
[tags]Eva Longoria 4-way lesbian fling[/tags]
Thanks for boingboing for the apt name for the war. Here’s the latest update from the BBC and the AP on the terrorists believed to be planning the liquid explosives attack this past summer.
Check out the 2nd Bioshock trailer over at Kotaku.
Closer, closer, comes the robot uprising. I’m preparing every day. Are you? The latest news that indicates the robots are working to bring down all humanity is this tasty brief on Robomoji (the robotic bartender). That’s right – the robots will get us drunk first, which should make the human-takedown ploy easier to pull off. In an attempt to protect all humanity, I will abstain from drinking any non-human poured liquor. (via TechEBlog)
Robots have way too many roles these days, ranging from security sentries to cellphone salesbots. Too mundane, you say? What about something that will surely please everyone at your party: a bot that can play bartender?
[tags]Robotic bartender, The nearing robot uprising[/tags]
It’s old news, but I wanted to point out National Geographic’s report on caffeine addiction
Today being the 103rd anniversary of the Wright Brother’s first flight, I thought it might be nice to quickly cover some other first flights that preceeded the Wrights’ flight. Most of the following information is ripped and modified from the excellent gathering of information hosted at the Dalle Molle Institure for Artificial Intelligence.
Mistakes happen. All the time. It’s no big deal. But put together a web site that tracks mistakes in print, and hilarity ensues. I’ve just started reading the site, but some of the media corrections and retractions are side-splitting funny (to my easily amused lazy rear). Go to Regret the error to find such corrections as:
Sometimes, you just want to know about all things Disney, in which case, you check The Disney Blog
One of my recent reading kicks has been the various books by the primary creators of the FBI’s behavioral sciences unit (BSU). This is the group you watch working every week if you watch Criminal Minds. One of the things that is covered in every one of these books is some of the background on how criminal profiling is done, and how that work was built up. Psychpathic behavior plays in to some of the work these folks do. And since I’ve been reading so much about that, I figured when I saw this Science News article on the nature and roots of psychopathy. After with a brief section on Derry Mainwaring-Knight, the article has:
Mainwaring-Knight wasn’t just a con man. By all accounts, he had a psychopathic personality. Psychopaths lack a conscience and are incapable of experiencing empathy, guilt, or loyalty. Descriptions of psychopatchs callously manipulating, intimidating, or harming others go back hundreds of years.
I would like to use this article to point out that Martin Blank isn’t quite correct when he says “No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It’s a *job*. That didn’t come out right.” In fact, psychopaths do kill for a reason. It’s just that reason is completely their own.
[tags]The psychology of psychopathy, Pychopaths kill for no reason – I kill for money[/tags]