Random Linkage 2008-Oct-06 PM
Monday, October 6th, 2008- Brewing beer with 45 million year old yeast
Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast has lain dormant for up to 45 million years.
- From successful Wall Street trader to monk (via Neatorama)
- Headline: MISSING: One condom-mobile (via boingboing)
The truck should be easy to spot. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: “I protect myself. Do you?”
- Please, please, please don’t dress like this at the beach
- New York Times opinion piece finds unsurprising lack of enthusiasm for Gov. Palin from that news source
Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.