August 2011 Archives
Oklahoma State Election Board on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
A great deal of useful info from earlier elections was lost in a revamp of the Oklahoma State Election Board website. This link takes you to all available versions of the old site, going back to its launch in 1996.
Aborted Baby Cells Used as Research Base for Flavoring (List of Products Included) : Moral Outcry
According to Children of God for Life, a cell line derived from kidney cells from an aborted baby (HEK 293) is being used by a company called Senomyx in the development and testing of flavor enhancers. The company's website includes information about its collaborations with PepsiCo and Cadbury Adams USA LLC, A unit of Kraft Foods Inc., and Nestlé.
High fliers: 5 great paper airplane designs | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games
The Record Holder, the Sabretooth, the Cobra, the Arrow, and the Spirit, with YouTube demonstrations of how to make each one.
Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good for You! by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Preferably from grass-fed animals, according to this cardiac surgeon. Interesting to see how the boom in carbohydrate intake correlates with the prevalence of obesity. (Via @DrEades on Twitter)
Cranmer: Nadine Dorries is a victim of Lib-Lab sexism
There's a bill in the British Parliament that would require independent counselling prior to abortion. "At the moment, abortion providers like BPAS and Marie Stopes offer counselling to women, but they are paid only when the termination is carried out." Nadine Dorries MP, a sponsor of the bill, says, "Abortion has become a factory-efficient process that denies women the right to independent, professional counselling. Many women who are given the opportunity to talk through their situation in a calm environment cease to panic and begin to consider other options. It is every woman's right to be given the choice of access to professional help at the time of a crisis pregnancy."
What's your worst Forever Alone moment? I'll start... : AskReddit
What becomes of the broken-hearted? asked Jimmy Ruffin. They post their saddest stories of Forever-Aloneness on the internet. (Via the AoSHQ overnight thread.) I have a few Forever Alone stories. How about you?
Midnight Blue Says: Joey Vento, Successful Businessman and Conservative Activist Dies
The founder and owner of Geno's Steaks, an iconic cheesesteak stand on Passyunk Ave. in Philadelphia, famed for his "This is America: When Ordering, Please Speak English" sign. Tania Gail has video relating to Vento's trial by the Philadelphia Commission for Human Relations and a speech Vento gave at a Tea Party rally
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39872
"'Tourism' - a word first appearing in print in 1822 - quickly turned professional, attested by the rapid spread during the 19th century of Hotel Bristol as a generic name for overnight accommodation for the weary tourist [1]. Tourism also produced a new type of cartography - the tourist map. These were explicitly designed to be alluring, to include and reflect the leisurely enjoyment of travel.
"This map is a late example of an early type of tourist map, the so-called Rheinpanorama. It depicts, in overlapping sections, and embellished with postcard-like images of riverside attractions, the most popular stretch of what came to be known as the Romantic Rhine, from Bonn to Mainz."
Pioneer Woman: This is what homeschooling looks like.
"But as my preschooler draws various dinosaurs from his favorite board book, correcting my pronunciations of words a boy his age should not know how to say and my now 2nd-grader hands me last year's history book, apparently finished during her late night bedtime reading sessions just for fun, I'm realizing that school has already started.
"In fact, it probably never really ended last May."
Slate's Procrastinate Better blog
If you're going to blow off real work, may as well do it in a creative fashion. Slate's bloggers suggest learning farming tips from The Archers on BBC Radio 4, watching tacky Lifetime movies on Hulu, and listening to Dylan Thomas read W. H. Auden.
