Oatstraw tea cures cancer

At least, I’m pretty sure it does. Some time ago, my friend was told by a homeopathically-inclined advisor that oatstraw tea would be a good thing for her. I started looking into it, and my god, this stuff makes you immortal. Among just three pages on oat straw, here are some of the conditions it can improve:

  • osteoporosis
  • arthritis
  • pain relief
  • hyperactivity in children
  • anxiety in elderly people
  • panic attacks
  • immune system deficiency
  • depression and nervous exhaustion
  • bed-wetting
  • skin disorders and boils
  • insomnia
  • kidney problems
  • bladder problems
  • gall bladder problems
  • gout
  • thyroid and estrogren deficiency
  • multiple sclerosis
  • anorexia
  • constipation
  • pancreatic problems

Just to clarify: This is tea.

Steve Jobs’ wife

How convenient–she can share his closet full of black turtlenecks!

Laurene Powell

1-letter Google Image searches

Stumbled into this one, but it’s kind of entertaining.

Try searching Google Images for say, “r.” Why is this the first result? A normal Google search for “r” is actually relevant.

First results for some other letters are a little better:

Or not:

Excuse me, Firefox 2

But could you tell me exactly what the fuck this is all about?

windows task manager

And that’s after doing all this shit. Weak.

UPDATE: It must be a bad extension, because running Firefox in Safe Mode cleared up the problem. I’ve reenabled the bare essential extensions and things seem okay.

Business casual blue jeans

Business casual jeansI’m taking a stand, right here, right now: Jeans should be allowed in “business casual” environments.

I don’t normally talk about work-related stuff, but I can’t bite my tongue on this one. I have two pairs of identical pants: one pair is blue jeans, the other is tan jeans. Are the tan jeans really that much dressier? I’ve never gotten a comment about them, but people hassle me about the jeans (which are decent, nice looking jeans, by the way).

Here’s the deal: if you wear reasonable quality jeans with a button-down shirt, that should qualify. Yeah? Agree with me here.

By the way, I waded through the internets trying to find some “expert” on business fashion who’d agree with me, but they all said jeans are a no-no. Well, fuck them. That’s why I can’t link to any other sites in this post.

My one sentence review of Babel

That movie was a real downer, man.

Ads were ruining my site

Adam is right. The damn 336×280 AdSense ads took over my blog and made it look like a splog. Hey man, I like money as much as the next guy, but not if it ruins my blog. (Note: Registered users have always been shielded from ads on this site, but I realize it’s a pain in the ass to register.)

I think I’ll cook something up to only show ads on posts older than a month, which will spare my regular readers of that crap. For now, they’re disabled.

I also fixed some feed issues. Had to tidy up around here.