September 2009
28 posts
“When you die, will you be pleased with yourself for writing such nonsense?...”
– Best comment ever, from the author of this article about Gawker on a conservative Christian hatemongering blog
(via matthew)
WatchWe used to do this in high school. Except we were white kids that, couldn’t keep a beat or a rap, and the only time we’d rhyme, it was in Rubaiyat.
(see what I just did there? whatageek)
Just so I can get it out of my head before the...
List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
I’m not one for lists, but this one is pretty interesting. For example:
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889 – 1944), the inventor of leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons, contracted a severe case of polio, possibly in part due to an immune system weakened by his exposure to lead and other chemicals in the course of his chemistry career. This illness might well have killed him were it not for...
