Well, why not?
Join Amber’s Crusade to celebrate along with the Brits on July 6.
I’ve already lined up my kissing partner? Have you?
And if you are so inclined don’t feel as if you must restrict yourself to one.
Via Will Baude.
Update (July 6, 2005): Amber has updated International Kissing Day information.
It’s the weekend, the sky is blue and a light wind is blowing. What better time to kick back and buff up your basic science skills. Check out these Ballads from the Age of Science.
Via Medpundit.
Tegan is a charter member of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame which is opening this week. She attended the “Gala premier opening” and has written a preview for us. A couple of snippets:
Ok, overall first impressions: Crowded, but not too crowded. Literally every time you turned around, there was something new to look at. I was suffering from “oooooh! Shiny thing!” syndrome, big-time.
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Disappointments. Not many… There was as strong a focus on books and magazines as on TV and movies, but comic books were underrepresented.
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And the Experience Music Project building is still the ugliest building in Seattle, even if what’s inside it is pretty cool.
A lot of folks consider this building ugly and it certainly does wrench at one’s sense of what is right when you look at it. As time goes by, though, I’ve found it to be much more interesting then just another box and I suspect that much of the inside ambience is due to the external shell creating internal spaces with interesting curved shapes.
Hey, sorry to digress. Go read the rest of Tegan’s review.
Check out a day in the life of the folks who work at the Oxford English Dictionary. For example David Martin, Senior Assistant Editor:
Spent all day editing the entry for the word phoenix, which poses an interesting etymological question about a possible connection with Phoenician. During my trawl for new quotations I was perhaps lucky to add only one quotation about Harry Potter: his �phoenix-feathered wand�.
The OED word of the day is always interesting.
Via Languagehat.
Walter writes:
I�ll end with a comment on a statement from the BC column that struck me. BC claims �Dr. King and Malcolm X and Fred Hampton died in a social struggle to empower Black people. Cosby demonizes these same people, employing the enemy�s language, like some vengeful, spurned benefactor.� No sir, Dr. King, Malcolm, and Fred lived to empower black people. They died because some triflin� fool killed them. And all too many triflin� fools are throwing the legacy of those great men, and great women like Barbara Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer, away for a dollar and a lousy pair of over priced sneakers made in China. Mr. Cosby is attempting to remind us of that.
Just go read the rest.
Via Terry Pindar.