the Unexpressed Advantage

I've learned a few things since moving here. One. Apparently starting your car and letting it run for 10 minutes before you drive anywhere is not the "most efficient" method for removing ice from your windshield. Apparently people use something called an "ice scraper". I don't have one of those, so I started using my trusty snowboard wax scraper, which seems to be working well and is completely available as I don't have a snowboard nor have I used one for several years. Two. "Freezing" is a really accurate, effective word. During the winter months (august-june) it's usually around 0 degrees celcius (freezing) at some point during each day. When you're outside and the temperature is freezing, you can really see how the word manages to capture the environment. You immediately are prompted to think, and or say, "it's freezing out here." Then you quickly apply that condition to yourself, "I'm freezing".

Video: Leopard Print Tasers

I think it stands to reason that the only person dumb enough to buy a "fashionable taser with leopard print" would be the one most likely to use it without provocation. Frat boys, line up.

Online Screen Cleaner

http://www.linein.org/media/screenclean

This handy little app will find the dirty parts of your computer monitor and clean it from the inside out. Uses "new" and "2.0" technology. Very handy. I've been using it for about 10 minutes and my monitor is almost clean. Works best in full screen (obviously).

DK

Heath Ledger found dead in New York | Reuters

I have to admit that I'm as shocked as the next person at the untimely passing of Heath Ledger at age 28. He stood out as one of the better actors in a film industry plagued by mediocricy and corrupted by the bottom line; I think a lot of movie fans expected great things from him, but it's fair to say that he accomplished a lot already at age 28. Sad to see him go, and I suspect that once the cause of his death is revealed, it will raise more questions about living and living in despair in our culture.

Some of the people who live in my college grew a tree from paper cup seeds that you can get at Starbucks® and other prominent coffee bean locales. It's quite pretty, but they're also trying to make a statement. The statement is that when you purchase coffee in these paper cups, instead of throwing the paper cups away, you can use them to make a pretty tree.