Month: August 2005

I heard this great K-Love spot while driving around on Sunday where this husband and wife are talking and he pronounces salmon like “sall-mon” and […]

More things that annoy me. I think I’ve mentioned this before. But it drives me crazy when people (primarily in Christian music, even more so […]

Fareed Zakaria says something interesting in The Future Of Freedom, talking about how democracy as a thought system has essentially won throughout the world. Even […]

Today’s random fact (via the Sports Guy) is in honor of the Chois, to bring together two of their passions: The numbers in Lost (4, […]

In honor of my miscellany loving audience (whoever they are), I’ll be posting random facts from time to time, a la the mini Harper’s Index […]

I don’t know why I find this clip so funny, but I do.

The other thing I did while in the ER until 2:30 AM was read Hornby’s latest, A Long Way Down. As with most of the […]

I’m so gratified that Minho read the banana article. It really is interesting, and I’m glad someone appreciated it. Joe sent me another article on […]

The Merc had this editorial the other day criticizing Intelligent Design, saying, without a hint of irony, that it can’t be treated as serious science […]

Unlike Henry, I actually loved Freakonomics. Highly recommended. For the benefit of my reading audience, I’ll just highlight some interesting statistics from the book, sans […]