Did Anita Rowland send you here looking for my post on Country House?
Poverty-pimps get due recognition.
I’m not a bit surprised to see that trouble-maker Leon Louw mentioned at the end of this article.
Scrappleface explains why public schooling is better than homeschooling.
An amusing catalog of literary sins. (Blogged just now by Cory Doctorow.)
An op-ed advocating militia-based defense — from a professor of aesthetics at Harvard. What is the world coming to?
To think that a modern human should be able to do everything that previous generations have been able to do (hunt, speak Latin, do square roots by hand, etc.), and also have any time left over to learn anything new (microbiology, email, calculus), is basically insulting to all those previous generations, since it implies that they under-employed their intelligence.
there’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
Theodore Gray built a wooden Periodic Table table, containing samples of 81 elements (so far). Look around for amusing anecdotes about how the samples were acquired, and what you might do if you have too much sodium to store safely.
Small World dept: he was at my hi-skool, just late enough that we’d never have met.