brainstorms

Sunday July 02, 2006

quick notes

signed up with checkout.google.com. i am no pal of paypal.

i recently received a short bit of haiku critique, for some haikus [from a beach far far away] i wrote last year. it said: "it doesnt make you feel relaxed and doesnt contain the imagery it should." perhaps the imagery is weak, but the comment about relaxed part seemed strange. my blog title may have [mistakenly] implied a subtext that simply does not exist.

nutautology: jason rasonhouse's essay dealing with the latest embarrassing bit of illiterate nuttiness: is natural selection a tautology?

Stephen Jay Gould once observed that creationists are “singularly devoid of shame” in their willingness to use any argument, no matter how vacuous or frequently refuted, in making their case against evolution. He might have included right-wing demagogues alongside creationists.

[james downard's detailed dissection part 1.]

shick vs gillette: simply no contest. an eight pack of disposable three-blade shick xtreme3 costs half as much as a four-pack gilette mach3 blades, and each gives twice as many one-week-old beard shaves. i always felt gillette blade costs were ridiculous given their mediocre performance on my beard, but now i know this for sure. [gillette fusion? it is a costly joke.]