Archive for the 'As Found Elsewhere' Category

MIT and Honorary Degrees

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Frank Field raised an interesting piece of MIT trivia today that i was not aware of — MIT does not confer honorary degrees. An interesting quotation from the MIT News Office: When Charles M. Vest, then provost of the University of Michigan, was offered the job of president of MIT in 1990, he met with [...]

And you thought Tickle-me Elmo was creepy…

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Just wait until you see inside. Link via hackaday.com.

The Taxonomy of Milk Products

Friday, 28 March 2008

I stumbled across this on Wikipedia today and had to blog about it (my inner geek loves it):

~41% voter turnout in Alberta

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

CBC reports that only ~41% of Albertans voted in their provincial election yesterday. While Manitoba’s arguably not any better at 56.75% in our last election, it’s a little sad that such a low turnout gives a mandate to those who govern the economically-powerful, environmentally-careless, and growing-too-quickly Alberta. Perhaps the problem is the Elections Alberta slogan: [...]