Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Benefits & Dangers of a Soy-heavy Diet

Given the edamame currently in our freezer I thought you might find this Boing Boing article of interest.

You should probably read the article for details but, long story short: The less processed the soybeans, the better they are for you.

Relationship discussion from the RPG crowd

Looks like someone's followed up a little on the Love Widget theme:

Sex Advice from D&D Players

Warning: Parental advisory should probably be issued for some of the entries.

Via Boing Boing.

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Vamping

Your icy kiss
- via the FMyLife blog.

Shimmering with life
- via the FMyLife blog.

Meetup for Weirdos (But who am I to point fingers?)
- via Boing Boing

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Snarky bookseller converasations

The BookMine website has collected a number of conversations over the years:


(Older gentleman calls)

I see you have a book titled "---" listed on your web site for $200

Ok

I am the author.

Ok

That book originally sold for under $20

Ok

How can you justify that?

Justify what?

Charging so much!

That's what it's worth. Look it up on Bookfinder

You will make more on the book than I did

I guess I should feel bad about that! If it makes you feel better, you could adjust for inflation (30 years)

I just doesn't seem right

It's the free market at work. You shouldn't have written such a good book

I will take that as a compliment

It was

And plenty more similar conversations where that came from.

Via Boing Boing.

Babies - The motion picture



A documentary on, what else, four infants from around the world. Trailer is cute and heartwarming beyond belief!

Via Boing Boing.

Marsh Gods

A fantasy story Adrienne's might enjoy.

Page here.

Direct link to mp3 here.

Failure & Success!

You may be aware of the Fail blog, but what about the one chronicling Success?