for google’s benefit: Egan’s Irish Pub in Fort St. John BC. 9404 Alaska Road Fort St. John, BC V1J 6L5 780-263-9992
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the dangers of gerin oil
It is a highly addictive drug, but governments everywhere encourage its use: Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug which acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of characteristic symptoms, often of an antisocial or self- damaging nature. If administered chronically in childhood, Gerin …
religion makes you worse off
Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’: “In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.
if your mother says she loves you
“If your mother says she loves you, get a second source.” “If your mother says she loves you, get a second opinion.” One place attributes the latter to Dan Rather; another to the movie Primal Fear. Clearly the saying predates both of them. Other variants: “If your Mother says she loves you, get two independent …
us national debt
United States National Debt and the presidents responsible for it.
In Search of the Valley
The Movie: In Search of the Valley: In Search of the Valley is the story of three friend’s personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley, in which they swapped London for California for one month last September. During the trip they clocked up over 3,000 miles visiting and talking to many of Silicon Valley’s …
reason #37 to like google
An ideas mailing list is open to anyone at Google who wants to post a proposal.
fun at camp
“I’ve just returned from entertaining the folks at a family weekend at a gay Jewish camp. It was mostly lesbians. “Imagine having 2 Jewish mothers.” —Heather Gold
UKers get hawt broadband
£24/month, 24 Mb down, 1.3 Mb up. Sweet!
guerilla usability: ice oasis hockey
For the past two years, I’ve been playing hockey at Ice Oasis. It’s a nice enough rink, but their web site is terrible. While they’ve since ditched the neon colours, the schedule page is pretty awful: you have to see all of the teams at once white text on a red background is hard to …