Couple of nifty things, too.

Food Fight:

Bhutan becomes newest democracy:

The small Himalayan country of Bhutan became the world's newest democracy Monday when voters cast ballots in the nation's first parliamentary elections.

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Turnout was more than 79 per cent of the 320,000 registered voters, Wangdi said. The results will not be official until Tuesday morning.

The election came with a twist: it was the country's king, not the people, who pressed for democracy.

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"Why do we need these people and their arguments?" asked 48-year-old Kinzang Tshering after listening to one candidate make his spiel days before the vote. "They tell us they are better than the other ones. How should I know which one is better?"

Wow, that music plays on every page load, huh?

Duck Hunt!




thought I'd share...

So I've been going a bit TED crazy for the past few days, and thought I'd share some of the more interesting stuff I've watched, in case people are bored and need 15-20 minutes of video to fill their free time.

Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma -- Turning our darwinian biological viewpoint on its head, and creating interesting sustainable agricultural solutions as a result.

Rives: Is 4 a.m. the new midnight? -- Not because I'm a conspiracy theorist but because he's entertaining and he reminded me that I need to find more Giacometti.

Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics -- Fundamental logical errors we make when faced with statistics, not to mention some of the disastrous implications of those errors.

Reasoner and Greene joke about the former's highlight-reel goal:

I don't believe it, Al.

So it's true... Percy is alive!

I saw him at Good Buddy restraunt... Unless it was his doppelganger.

3 points back...

wtf??