Media Time Machine

Like all my good ideas, I'm sure this one has already been done. Does anyone know if there is a way I can enter any date, say 10/17/2007, and go back in time to that date? I would only see news and information from that date, nothing after.

For example, if I wanted to get a feel for the mood on 10/17/2007, I could see the New York Times home page exactly as it would appear on that day, or even at a specific hour or minute. I could go to CNN and watch the breaking news as if it were really 9:30 am on that day. If I Googled some recent phenomenon, it would return no results. Is there a way to freeze the Internet in time like that?

If so, does any one else think it would be interesting to time travel online? I would love to see what proclamations people were making this time last year about Hillary, the economy, and such.

Sign of the Times

I was counting up all of my change to take down to the change counter machine at the grocery store. I thought the image of coins lined up on the floor was poignant, so I took a photo. Here is $ 6.95.

Some people are like bits of driftwood floating along on the waves. I want to be the one making the waves.

Impoverished Free Time

Does any one else ever have a perfectly good chunk of free time which, for lack of money, you spend doing nothing but sitting at home watching TV?

Encyclopedia of Irrational Beliefs and Practices #1

Chinese people have a saying "eat something, nourish something." It means that if you want to nourish your dry skin, you eat dog skin. If you want to nourish your weak eyes, you eat fish eyes. If you want to improve your mental agility, you eat monkey brains.

The Encyclopedia of Irrational Beliefs and Practices is a collection across all cultures and religions of the nonsense that people actually believe in today. The purpose is to shine a light on the prevelance of mystic and superstitious thinking in humanity, and to promote critical scientific thinking. Please feel free to contribute your own entries below.

Like I Always Say...

If it's a good point it bears repeating.




If it's a good point it bears repeating.

Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests

Funny, holding the Olympics in Beijing was supposed to improve China's human rights record. It seems, rather, to have given China the opportunity to infringe on even more people's rights. What's more, for the first time, China's brand of authoritarianism is encroaching onto foreign citizen's rights.