This poor kid’s mother made him wear a Macy’s shopping bag as a rain jacket. That’s just plain wrong!
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Macy’s Rain Gear
Posted by Jason
on June 30, 2007
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Pretty & Smart
Posted by Jason
on June 28, 2007
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One of my favorite Mac productivity applications is Quicksilver. It’s awesome. This afternoon I was changing some settings when I clicked on the “About Quicksilver” menu item and this gorgeous screen popped up. It’s the most elegant “about” screens I’ve ever seen. The Lao-Tze quote is pretty deep, too. =)
106,456,367,669
Posted by Jason
on June 28, 2007
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According to a rough scientific study, the total number of people to have inhabited Earth between 8,000 B.C. and the year 2002 is somewhere near 106,456,367,669. If you count the extra 702.8 million people born since 2002, the total becomes roughly 107,159,216,169. That’s 107.1 billion people!
Also interesting is the average number of births per 1,000 people. In 1 A.D. there were 80 births per 1,000 people. By the year 1650, this dropped to 60 per 1,000. In 1900, it dropped again to only 40 per 1,000. In 2002, it was almost cut in half again to only 23 births per 1,000 people. Even though the world population is at its highest ever (6.5 billion), the base growth rate has been dropping dramatically. Hmmm…
Good Quotes
Posted by Jason
on June 22, 2007
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. – Sun Tzu
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – George Washington
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. – King Edward VIII
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein
And of course…
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy