August 2007

Thanks, Bush…  In an attempt to raise the nation’s historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers topped with rubber nipples. …

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The new ReveNews site is slowly resolving across the interwebs. You can even email me at my new (mostly) default email addy: sam@revenews.com Official re-launch of ReveNews on Monday.  ReveNews

Wow… great news:  “A new online translator that can translate Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian and Egyptian hieroglyphics (1 of the 3 types anyway) has been developed. This is the first time I ever saw a translator for cuneiform. Something like this would be great for translating interesting historical records like the Amarna Letters.” Slashdot | Assyrian, Babylonian, …

Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created Read More »

If you like good music, watch this.  StumbleVideo – Feist