Miscellaneous

Anyone know anything about smoke alarms? The geniuses behind the model building code require smoke alarms to be "hard wired," meaning that they're tied into your electric circuitry. I think it also means that they're linked: if one goes off, they all go off.

What better way to perk up on Monday morning than to read this: testosterone levels are falling across the United State [http://health.yahoo.com/news/168226] . Researchers don't know why. I'll hazard a guess: Men are so over-sexed, they get tired of it and don&

This is pretty neat [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-27T190314Z_01_L27148787_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-ICELAND-LIGHTS.XML&archived=False] : > Authorities in the capital Reykjavik will turn off street lights on Thursday evening and people are also being encouraged to sit in their

. . . they might mutate [http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19264909-5001022,00.html]: > The team comprising a geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer says the egg came first. > The first chicken developed differently to its avian predecessors. > Such mutations could only have occurred at

Drudge lists the Top 20 newspapers by paid weekday circulation [http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm]. The report covers the last six months. I was curious to see that five of the papers increased their circulation. I thought newspapers were in a free-fall? I realize 15 of the newspapers dropped

Hilaire Belloc made the headline of a NYT opinion piece this morning. That's noteworthy in itself. Bonus: The piece is worth reading. The Future of Journalism as Told by Hilaire Belloc in 1918 [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/opinion/18tue4.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]

An entertaining, if kinda sad and questionable, blurb in The Atlantic Monthly: > Dick Tracy had it right, a new study suggests: there really is a correlation between ugliness and crime. A pair of economists examined looks and lawbreaking among adults aged eighteen to twenty-six, using a longitudinal study involving

Malcolm Muggeridge explains the knighting of Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Tom Jones: > In England everything is forgiven to those who live a long time; with longevity even Queen Victoria became popular, and I feel quite sure that if Oscar Wilde had managed to live on into

Plenty of people are beginning to realize that us earthlings are probably alone. Though 34% still believe in UFOs [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3962/], many people are beginning to realize that the possibiliy of extra-terrestial life and the existence of UFOs [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3071/] is about as likely as the