Child-Safety Experts Call For Restrictions On Childhood Imagination

Child-Safety Experts Call For Restrictions On Childhood Imagination

WASHINGTON, DC—"By constantly reminding kids that they're human children with no magical skills, you ensure that they will live a prolonged life," child-safety expert Kenneth McMillan said.

WASHINGTON, DC—The Department of Health and Human Services issued a series of guidelines Monday designed to help parents curtail their children's boundless
imaginations, which child-safety advocates say have the potential to rival motor
vehicle accidents and congenital diseases as a leading cause of disability and
death among youths ages 3 to 14.
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"Remember, if you see a single sparkle of excitement in their eyes, you haven't done enough."

What Windows Vista is Really Like

She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night. She seems to know this, and smiles at me again, but apparently she's serious about making breakfast. She turns and strides confidently from the room. As she does, I see for the first time the large Microsoft logo splayed across her back. My stomach lurches as I suddenly remember everything.

Windows Vista. I bought a new computer yesterday... and it came with Windows Vista.

http://chalain.livejournal.com/43015.html

*Almost* makes me want to take the Vista plunge

Picking A Masterlock No.3

Masterlock No. 3's are everywhere, but they're not very secure. This is one of the first locks I learned to open.

How A Turbine Is Raised

Pretty neat time-lapse video of a turbine being assembled on-site. Isn't it amazing how humans can build things many times their size?

Happy Valentines Day

Forget the red roses, gimme one of these:



Oops, so much for conservation.

Out With The College Stuff

With the college application process pretty much winded down, I thought it was about time I went through my college mail (and clean my room in the process). It turned out to be quite an undertaking, because of the sheer volume of a year's worth of college mailbox spamming. But the reason it took three hours was because I had to sort through the mail, decide which letters to keep, and "gut" the envelopes to recycle the paper. Hey, every bit of green helps!

"Gutting" an envelope involves ripping out those pesky plastic windows that allow the address to peek through, throwing out the plastic (heck, recycle those if you want to, but I don't think the mixture of plastic film, glue, and residual paper is good for the recycling centers) and recycling paper part of the envelope. You can also reuse the letters inside the envelopes as scrap paper (a stack seen on the bottom of the picture).

In the end, the stack of college mail made a pile about 2 feet high and warranted its own recycling box. Now, some acceptance letters would be nice...