Tips and tricks for those moments when your body is bugging you. Sinus Congestion? – Relieve sinus pressure by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. You may look like Felix Unger, but the motion loosens congestion by making the vomer bone rock back and forth. This bone runs from the nasal passages to the mouth. After about 20 seconds, you’ll feel your sinuses start to drain. (Here’s another…
Could entropy be the one thing faster than the speed of light? It’s always already happening. Calling all scientists. Please comment on this idle speculation.
Thanks to my boss, who donated a used computer to me for my birthday, I now have a computer that can handle ITunes. Unfortunately, the CD drive on the computer reads but doesn’t write. I guess I could hook up my old computer, wipe most of the drive, and use it as music backup. Or even harness the CD drive to make a couple of music disks. I have an mpg player, but it plays cds. I’ve finally begun looking…
Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Endangers Human Life and Health – Take Action through June 4th Statement from Physicians for Social Responsibility The Department of Energy has proposed a program called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership to resume nuclear waste reprocessing. This program promotes new nuclear power plants with the misleading claim that nuclear waste reprocessing is like “recycling†and will reduce the dangers of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste reprocessing is a dirty, dangerous and expensive process that creates some new (and…
I was rereading a bit about Emerson and self-reliance earlier. It affected me, as it always does. Before I wade into current political statements of opinion on the recent Presidential Directives (I’ve seen blog headlines), I’ve decided to treat it like I would treat any document I wanted to interpret. What follows is my initial set of impressions and thoughts. This will change, it always does. It might be interesting to do part 2 sometime later, when these thoughts bounce…
VirusHead Blog changes and updates: WP-EMail – You can email any post now. There’s a link at the bottom of each post that will open a pop-up window, and there’s a tally on the sidebar of the most emailed posts. At the moment, there is only one. I sent myself the Green Day post to test the system. It’s like butter. Simple Tagging: I decided to go with the Simple Tagging Plugin rather than continue to use Ultimate Tag Warrior…