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According to an outtake from some gross facts book, the typical person produces enough saliva over the course of their life to fill a swimming pool. Oh, and girls fart 3 times more often then guys.

Is another folk singer, like I need …

No, what the world really needs is a WTF Ligature.

Be warned, when I viewed the page an off-site graphic link had been replaced with an image of Tub Girl *shudder*

25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself is a PDF manifesto. I almost didn’t download it because what’s the point of PDF when it could just as easily be a web page.

It’s pretty (though I don’t think it needs to be a PDF to be pretty), but more importantly, the content is pretty good. It is worth downloading and launching an alternate application to read it (even if I don’t think you should have to).

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

Richard Koch thinks we should apply the 80/20 principle to our personal lives. It makes sense, but to be honest, I only read about 20% of the article.

A lot of these Bush jokes are kind of dumb, but a few of them made me laugh out loud, and then they made me cry.

Is it possible I’ve been writing with my fingers instead of my hand/arm all this time? Probably. These handwriting tips are interesting, and my handwriting could certainly stand to be improved. If I practice, I might even be able to get up to semi-legible. I just don’t know that I care enough to practice. I’ll probably just stick with a keyboard where writing with your fingers is correct.

When Vector Meets Photo — It all looks so easy when you follow along on the web page. I bet in reality, it’s actually a bit more challenging, but still kind of cool.

I love the idea of something like RSSContact.com, but I don’t think anybody I know is geek enough to actually subscribe to whatever contact channel I might create. Hell, I’m not even geek enough to subscribe to somebody else’s channel.

It’s like PGP for e-mail. I’d love to use it, but I can’t for reasons of practicality.

Wow, just pushing the red button made me feel uncomfortable (like I was responsible for starting it or something). The map though is a very effective visualization that for me at least really seems to personalize all the statistics:

Iraq War Fatalities is a chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in the War in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second–one frame for each day–and a single black dot indicates the geographic location that a US fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot that fades to black over the span of 30 frames/days, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft ‘tic’ sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that occurred simultaneously that day. More deaths in a smaller area produces visually deeper reds and audibly more pronounced ‘tics.’

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