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POPSZodiac linked to driving ability -- Toronto study This Aquarian has a near-perfect record over 34 years of legal driving (and a couple more years before those ones). Maybe it has to do with not relaxing my safety standards over the years, or good initial instruction. Interesting correlation, in any case!
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POPSWikipedia, on Martin Luther King Day My teenage son has been living with his mother in a province far from mine for a few years, and it's only recently that we've been able to keep in touch almost daily by Instant Messenger, e-mail, and other wonders of the 21st Century. I was proud and surprised, when I upgraded to the latest Microsoft Messenger to match what he had, that he was using an image of Dr. King as the iconic "avatar" representing him while on-line. MLK is among the top five people I admire most. I don't remember consciously imparting this to young Mookie, so his choice was a pleasant surprise. : { ) I hope the employers of many of you folks down there in Vespuccia give you the day off for observance of an important man who charted a non-violent and exemplary course toward long-overdue and neglected social reform. : { ) (Alas, here in Canuckia we observe the day from our desks, workshops, stores, and other places of employment. But we're working on it.)
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POPSPortmanteau Language -- Speech Idiosyncracies Entertaining article about speech foibles. I recall my own wife's talent for coming up with appropriate but made-up words, on the spot. As a graphic artist, I remember her remarking at work that a graphic clip needed to be "smallerized". When we were assembling furniture from an Ikea-like store, she wondered why the "stickoutums" at the corners weren't covered to prevent bumping injuries. --- Entertaining site, relating to word creation, from a recent Clipmark (sorry, don't have the Clipper's name at hand): Verbotomy .
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POPSA Day In The Life: The Space Station, 7 Feb 2006 This is an interesting look into the daily business of the Space Station. While setting up a satellite tracking application recently, I was struck by the casual reference to "satellites and spacecraft". Satellites I'm accustomed to. Non-fictional "spacecraft" I'm still getting used to.
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POPSOne of Google's finest thematic logos I don't see the logo in the Clip Preview as I make this entry. If it's not there, simply go to google.ca or google.com, home page. But be quick. It'll be gone Tuesday. ; { ]
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POPSAre you info literate? If we call it "reticulatory adeptness" can we make it a fourth 'R'? Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Reticulation.
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POPS"Evolution is dead!!!" read the link to this article. The exclamation marks convinced me it was true
"Wow!" I said, out-loud, reading the second of the excerpted reviews in this clip. It sure felt like a cheer for my team. But... As always, I see glimmers of sense on both sides of this issue, despite my tendency to "pick a team". And as always, it astounds me that people continue to "pick teams", and choose one or another extreme (as if that's required of effective, assertive logic), and only then examine things, selectively, to support their foredrawn conclusions. Way to be wrong. (Smug's fun, but lonely.) About "Intellligent Design": I find it difficult to believe that undirected coincidence can result in a complexly organized system such as that of a living organism, with its built-in capacity to withstand (some) unforeseen changes in conditions (much as a well-crafted computer program anticipates the end-user's experience, providing alternatives, error traps, and advisories). But to say that that complexity is therefore proof of any particular alternative, namely
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