Monthly Archives: December 2006

The body electric

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Kirsten

I expected something different from Candace Pert’s latest book, Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d. For starters, the title’s a bit of a bait to the text’s switch. You aren’t going to find that promised Everything here. In … Continue reading →

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Mainstream medicine . . . catching up

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Kirsten

I hate to be the one who says “I told you so” but when the pointed commentary fits ;-) The news wires are carrying, today, this story about research showing a correlation between obesity and gut flora. They aren’t sure … Continue reading →

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One blog at a time :-)

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Kirsten

When I was a kid, one of my favorite things was when the Mortensen side of the family got together. My dad’s parents lived right next door, so several times a year my uncle and aunt would turn up with … Continue reading →

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Wired’s take on YouTube

Posted on December 17, 2006 by Kirsten

Article is by Bob Garfield. This gets one piece of it: It’s said that if you put a million monkeys at a million typewriters, eventually you will get the works of William Shakespeare. When you put together a million humans, … Continue reading →

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Judith Regan fired

Posted on December 17, 2006 by Kirsten

“HarperCollins announced the firing, ‘effective immediately,’ in a two-sentence news release that was issued about 7 p.m. Eastern time.” Technorati Tags: O.J. Simpson

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Infrastructure! Yeah, baby!

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Kirsten

I started Christmas shopping last week. Within a day the UPS truck was finding my door. Then, this afternoon the floodgates opened: a pile of boxes on my doorstep. What could be more fun? I also noticed that instead of … Continue reading →

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It really IS her dog!

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Kirsten

When someone wrote an Amazon review that she’d bought Outwitting Dogs because her dog was on the cover, I assumed she meant she owned a Jack Russell terrier and bought the book because there’s a Jack Russell on the front. … Continue reading →

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On the first day of Christmas . . .

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Kirsten

An office discount supplier sent to me . . . Twelve pencil sharpeners sharpening???? I ordered one. Paid for one. Some warehouse picker sent a case instead. So now I have these eleven extra electric pencil sharpeners. I emailed the … Continue reading →

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Historical novels and the conception of self

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Kirsten

Catching up on some things, here: I finished The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant several weeks ago and before I mess with the code to remove its image from my sidebar I may as well blog about it, eh? … Continue reading →

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The way out is up

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Kirsten

Can’t solve a problem on the level at which it were wrought. So. Anyway. This is kind of cool: If human speech is recorded and played backwards, mixed amongst the gibberish at regular intervals can be heard very clear statements. … Continue reading →

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