History has got hip. And genealogy is getting radical. Popular history's poster boy, Tony Robinson, explains why the past means so much to the present. And how a "turnip-loving moron" came to his rescue.

I like the "turnip-loving moron" and his take on history.

~Heathyr

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The history bloke

Archaeologists in Egypt expecting to find a mummy during their excavation of a burial chamber in Luxor have instead discovered a garland of flowers.

New burial chambers found in Valley of the Kings.

~Heathyr

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Ancient garland in Egyptian tomb

The rapture has become somewhat en vogue recently, due in large part to the inept, poorly-written, mind-bogglingly popular Left Behind series of books.

Okay, so it's old but I just found it and about spit my water out laughing unexpectedly on his rapture rant.

~Heathyr

MC Hawking's Crib

Coulter writes in a new book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act “as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them.”
She also wrote, “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

I find that so tacky. In my head, I'm calling her a very bad word, and it ain't the "b" one.

~Heathyr

Coulter lambastes 9/11 widows in book

What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch.

Why do I suddenly feel the urge to go reread my cyberpunk stuff?

~Heathyr

Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World

The book focused on how couples could use the internet to increase communication, to explore fantasies and to improve their offline relationships. The press gleefully whipped up a controversy, accusing Deborah of encouraging people to use the internet to cheat on their spouses

Interesting article. We are too hung up about sex in this country, so it's always nice to see people that are fighting the fight to ensure kids start growing up sex positive, healthy and informed. I'm doing my best with my four kids to do the same. It's a tough fight though, when you have an ultra-religious ex-husband and a school system that doesn't bother to teach sex ed! I asked about the district office about this, but they just let me know they do AIDS education in 5th grade and that's it.

Hmmm. AIDS education without sex ed? The hell? So this summer, we're having a family sex ed course wherein I do my damnedest to ensure my kids are going to be comfortable asking questions, whether to me and my boyfriend, or to their future partners in experimentation, and that they know that some unknown god isn't going to smack them down for, um, smacking themselves down, if you catch my drift ;)

~Heathyr

Wired News: Happy Sex Is Healthy Sex

Because as of June 6, 2006, Satan is officially lame, ruined by advertising. Behold, I give you six reasons why:

Ah overcommercialization, how do we loathe thee? Let me count the ways.

An easy read and moderately amusing. I'm undercaffeinated, so easy, moderately amusing reads are about at my level this lovely morning.

~Heathyr

As of 6/6/06, Satan loses his indie cred

Timothy Leary passed away 10 years ago today. I was with him the evening before he died and I still remember his humor even in his final hour.

It would have been interesting to have known the man, that is for sure.

~Heathyr

Joi Ito's Web: 10 years since Timothy Leary's death

Willy Wonka could have powered his Great Glass Elevator on hydrogen produced from his chocolate factory.
Microbiologist Lynne Mackaskie and her colleagues at the University of Birmingham in the UK have powered a fuel cell by feeding sugar-loving bacteria chocolate-factory waste. "We wanted to see if we tipped chocolate into one end, could we get electricity out at the other?" she says

Just one more thing to love chocolate for, right? I knew I should have kept my initial science major instead of my english one. I too could experiment with chocolate for a living!

Seriously though, found this very interesting.

~Heathyr

New Scientist Tech - Technology - Chocolate generates electrical power

It's the final night of Devo's latest reunion tour, and keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh and his bandmates are jumping around the stage in identical yellow radiation suits and crimson flowerpot headgear. One of the weirdest groups to rise from the ashes of punk rock, Devo racked up one major hit - the MTV smash "Whip It" - in 1980 and has performed sporadically in the 15 years since its last proper album. But to the audience at the LA-area Canyon Club, the band is as relevant as ever. "How many of you believe devolution is real?" bellows singer Gerald Casale as the quintet prepares to launch into another song. "It's certainly more believable than intelligent design!"

Whip it good, baby, whip it good.

~Heathyr

Wired 14.05: Devo Is Dead. Long Live Devo.