Go Metric

i heard on NPR that we are the only big country to not officially adopt metric. our non-standard friends are liberia and burma (or myanmar). needless to say we just aren't standard with the rest of the world. i didn't catch the whole npr story as i was listening while trying to write my synthetic scheme for tomorrow's work in lab. but basically i think the idea was we need to catch up with the rest of the world or it will leave us behind even if we are big. the rest of the world is still bigger. so anyways here's a link with some interesting information on how other countries made the switch to metric.

I Kept Looking for the Mistake

i get e-mail from spectrum magazine and i read the blurb for a story and i read it like three time because i couldn't believe it. here's the blurb followed by a link to the spectrum blog post.

Adventist Political Hopeful Speaks to Neo-Nazi Group

Tony Zirkle, a South Bend, Indiana, lawyer and Republican primary candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, District 2. On Sunday, he spoke to a Chicago group celebrating the birthday of Hitler. Recently, Zirkle, an Andrews University Theological Seminary student, raised the idea of segregating races in separate states. In 2006, he received 30 percent of the GOP primary vote in Indiana's 2nd District.

What's that book that he recommends in the video?

here's a link to the blog with video

If I had a million dollars.....

i would buy a multifunction solid ink xerox 8560 MFP/D