As if just being alive on a glorious fall day – a Friday, no less – isn’t reason enough to celebrate, your Most Salubrious source of salubriety gives you 23 more ways to instantly improve your day. There is no charge for this service. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/steps-to-instantly-make-your-day-better
OBAMA TRIES TO SAVE THE A
CAN OBAMA SAVE THE A? He’s trying, but it isn’t going well so far. One thing you can say for Dr. Ricardo Azziz: the man is tenacious. And he’s what is sometimes called a company man. That’s someone whose allegiance to his employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers. Despite poll results (which he requested), he mounted …
More NUMB3RS!
3.2 million of them, to be specific. A guy sticks his face in a copier – and who of us hasn’t done that? – and a couple o’ three million dots later, viola! (or as some prefer, voila!) A work of art emerges courtesy of his son, artist Miguel Endara. View full screen if you like. The Making of “Hero” …
I should be dead.
Yes indeed, I should be dead. This short video explains all the reasons why. Then again, from another perspective, it explains precisely why I’m not.
Another trillion
Related to the earlier post NUMB3RS (below), here’s some additional food for thought about what a trillion – in this case, a trillion dollars – really means. For a little perspective (but not much) on what a stack of $1 bills nearly 79,000 miles high would look like, consider the recent record-setting free fall by Austrian Felix Baumgartner. He jumped …
It’s M.E.vember!
And to celebrate, here’s the first issue of MEvember. It’s new and improved, especially compared to the print version. We admit to a veritable TypoFest in the print edition. We haven’t had this many typos in one issue since that one time when Al-Qaeda captured our entire editorial staff and forced us to make more than a dozen tpyos. (They …
FOR CHARLIE
Why am I being nice to you? You scammed me out of twenty bucks, you little creep. Is that what they teach you in pre-school? Nitro Warriors – A Stop Motion Animated Film from Vanguard Pictures on Vimeo.
NUMB3RS
Hardly a day goes by without hearing big numbers, numbers that despite their familiarity – after all, you can’t go too many days without hearing the worn-out phrase, “…that’s billion with a B…” – are practically abstract concepts. The human mind can only comprehend so much. This week’s Augusta Medical Examiner cover story deals with lots of amazing numbers that …
A Breast Cancer Awareness Gallery
As October leaves us for another year, here is a gallery of breast cancer Public Service Announcements, ads, photographs and informational posters from various places around the world. They are clickable if you wish to enlarge any of them for easier reading. The fight against breast cancer is not an October fight. It’s a never-ending year-round battle – against all …