Incessant Expressions

Hopefully this one will get published on time and I don’t have any of those real life delays like…relaxation or something silly like that. Here’s the Ocho!

CNN to air 3 part series on religious extremism
I know, I know, it’s CNN and it’s probably 95% utter garbage but it’s still worth a watch. Thanks [...]

The new Tangled Bank blog carnival is up at Balancing Life. I have so much reading to do this weekend :(. Maybe Shisha or Funky Buddha have free wifi I can use while imbibing sweet coffees and aromatic shisha?

The new Four Stone Hearth is up at Hominin Dental Anthropology. Oh, this is going to make a sweet read at work tomorrow.

I just read the following article about reporting spammers to their web hosts in order to deter their activities and how it’s more effective than anything else (via TechDirt). Since this is something I do every day, I have to strongly disagree with these people. Reporting spamvertising does stop it from occurring…from that [...]

Now that I work at home, I’m beginning to remember why I dislike office desks so much and why good ones are so expensive — along with decent office chairs. My desk, for lack of a better word, sucks and my nice Ayreon knock-off chair is equally sucky. I can’t seem to get [...]

I’ve heard of kids — and adults as well — doing some pretty dumb things in an effort to cool down hot electronics but this takes the cake: Teen immerses powered on Xbox in bowl of water. The poor kid is going to be ridiculed for at least a month about this and rightfully [...]

While I didn’t find a lot of interesting news this week however, I did find tidbits that made me say “Finally!”
4 area schools to start classes later
I know this is making kids happier, especially our neighbor. I don’t know why school districts are so hell bent on getting kids out of bed and to [...]

Layeredtech, where my box is hosted, had some serious backbone issues last night so my site was practically unavailable for hours. Yay
*orders from caro*

This was supposed to have been published yesterday but I spent the whole day unplugged and at a local hookah bar.
Angkor Wat is at least 3 times larger than archaeologists previously suspected
Using advanced radar imagery, archaeologists are discovering more of this sprawling, ancient city.

Ancient Hungarian forest holds clues to ancient climate
A recently unearthed ancient forest [...]

BR561 as a new project and it definitely has interesting social bedfellows already.