Mac of the day: the rumored G5 PowerBook (via Slashdot)
Here’s a post about outsourcing math teachers from GNXP for Jerie. The comments go into more detail about the disincentives that keep otherwise qualified people like yours truly from becoming teachers.
Birthday of the day: Happy Birthday, Seema! A LiveJournal outage isn’t much of a present, though. Next time ask for fic.
I got a baby crockpot (1.5 quarts) on sale at CVS. I searched the net for teeny-weeny crockpot recipes, and all I found was this Stepford Wife porridge recipe. But somewhere I did find the good advice to take a Big Crockpot recipe and cut it down for a Small Crockpot. Duh! That works pretty well.
There’s nothing like coming home to find that the little electronic wife has made you dinner!
Via Geek Press: Will Life Be Worth Living in 2000 AD?, an optimistic 1961 view of the future. About all we have off the list is the computers and TVs.
Several of these cool links are from GeekPress.
I have sci-fi reviews to blog, but somehow it gets to be a quarter to midnight and I haven’t blogged them another day. Instead you’re getting a link-dump of monumental randomness.
I think most of these came from Jeffrey Zeldman or Todd Dominey, but I’ve lost track of the details.
From SpaceWeather: the Christmas Moon will be the smallest full moon of the year.
It’s a shame it’s so hard to find Firefox extensions, even when you know they exist. ColorZilla is very cool, but it took me forever to hunt it down at home after installing it at work.
You probably need to be a philosophy geek to fully appreciate this one, but renowned British philosopher Anthony Flew has gone from atheist to Deist in the space of a year. His theism will be immortalized in a new edition of God and Philosophy.
The journal Philosophia Christi has an interview with Flew available on-line and also as a PDF. Flew’s reason for his change of heart is science’s alleged difficulty in explaining “the origin of life and the complexity of nature.”
Once again, I’ve posted an extended dance version of this entry to GNXP.
In the false but pervasive spirit of holiday affirmative action, I bring you:
But we all know that this is actually the Christmas season, no matter how many minor holidays we try to include from religions that really would rather not be a party to the national shopping spree. You can keep your Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays. If you don’t want to specify the holiday, then how about saying something meaningful like Peace on Earth? Nobody objects to that one.