elfs | Things I Saw Today...

Iowa city has stopped an old-fashioned book burning, pointing out that there's a burn-ban going on within the city and that it's illegal to transport materials across city lines specifically to burn them-- air quality controls are in force.

A city fire inspector suggested shredding the offending CD's, videos, books, and clothing, but the Reverend Scott Breedlove said "that didn't seem biblical."

Yeah.

Laurie Anderson just gets cooler. While writing wildly eclectic and satisfying performance poetry with music and weird special effects-- not to mention a decent rock album now and then and providing vocals for Jean Michel Jarre's latest laser lightshow-- she now officially becomes NASA's Artist in Residence Rockin'!

Saw this on Fleshbot this morning: Asia Carerra, the one-time porn starlet (who's still pretty hot, and doing no-sex cameos in high-end porn movies now and then) has built her own casemod. How's that for a geeky thing to admire?

Okay, I don't know how this works either. Here's the perfect t-shirt fold, in two moves. Origami for homemakers. Weird.

Interesting. Did you know that the Nobel Prize for Economics is not really a Nobel Prize? I didn't either. The official name is "The Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel", and the Bank of Sweden sponsors the award, paying the Nobel Foundation to administer it and choose a recipient. The Bank issues the award during the whole annual Nobel hullabaloo, thus blurring the distinction between "real Nobel prizes" and "prizes in memory of Alfred Nobel." The whole thing seems to have been a gambit-- and a successful one so far-- at ranking economics more like a "real science" in people's minds.