Coyote in Central Park. http://ping.fm/6SUh3

New French Anti-Soking Campaign Equates Smoking with Sucking off Creepy Old Men http://ping.fm/MhDwe

Doctor's conclusion: a really icky strain of viral conjunctivitis. He prescribed two kinds of drops and a follow-up in a week.

Dear Netflix: Planned outage at 8:30 pm on a Friday? Rly? What were you THINKING?

No More Taking Sides, An Israeli-Palestinian Story [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media] http://ping.fm/Pa29Y

The Navy's Fleet of Uber Classified Super Ultra High Tech Ship Cleaning Robots - Roomba - Gizmodo http://ping.fm/ooWql

Live Checking Credit Card Shows the Bad News in Real Time - Live checking credit card - Gizmodo http://ping.fm/cu1td

Our robot friends are everywhere! Smartypants doctors are giving a lecture about them at BWH. http://ping.fm/UQDLu

Every time I read about a project like this, I think of four old ladies with pickaxes and compost in The Fifth Sacred Thing. http://ping.fm/KBr1p

Google Sorry About Buzz Privacy -- InformationWeek http://ping.fm/2Yjiu

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

- Did you go to [your 10-year class reunion]?
- Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled.
- Grosse Pointe Blank

Credit Card Help: What the new credit card law means for you http://ping.fm/qp2q6

"A carefree (practice) ... means considering anything that happens as natural... There is nothing in your mind that you cannot put down."

Why did it take me so long to find about this? http://ping.fm/oppoZ

Just got an email about a Hitachi on sale... from MicroCenter.

Alewife station, eating popcorn/respite in transit / night sky, car river / and there in a forgotten corner / giant lego, abandoned.

You know she's a good instructor when at the end of the day I'm actually half-sold on ways ways SharePoint can make my life easier.

If we keep our own light selfishly hidden, it will only provide a limited amount of illumination. --Daily Dharma (http://ping.fm/9jRwy)

Set out to henna my hair, but ended up cleaning the bathroom closet in search of the hair-parting brush. Win!

Just had the nicest conversation with a hostess at the Porter Sq Unos. Amazing what happens when you pay attention to people.

Need constricts the heart, but it often serves as a help / and salvation to the sons of man / if they attend it in time. --Anglo Saxon Runes

"I'm not suicidal, I just can't get out of bed" (It's not a depressing song, though). http://ping.fm/ujeKu

Subversive historical fact of the day: "man," as in the Futhark rune "mannuz," originally referred to all humanity, not just males.

Hey, plus size catalogs: how about using models with the bodies you're trying to sell to? (File under fatgirlkvetch)

Can we let go of our need to try to control other people's lives, even in the name of lovingkindness? (see Salzberg, Winter 2009, http://ping.fm/8SGkq)