Spaced Links! | Thanks Ant. |
Links of the Morning: |
Napoleon Dynamite Lip
Balm*. Thanks
Neatorama. Mail A Fart. Thanks Compfused.com. |
Stories: |
Danger Out of the Gate. What's Behind the High Rate of Deaths
Among U.S. Racehorses? How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish. Humane Society: 'Faux fur' often dog hair. |
Science!: |
CO2 can be stored in aquifers for years: study. Wizardry at Harvard Physicists Move Light (registration required). Uncovering Prehistoric Hurricane Activity. |
Media: |
How to Shower - Men & Women. The text meme set to video. Humvee Traffic Driving in Iraq. Thanks The Flying Penguin. |
Follow-ups: |
Hunt for missing Microsoft engineer moves south. Judge Bars Simpson From Cashing in on Book. |
* "Just borrow some from the school nurse. I know she has like five sticks in her drawer."
While I usually wash my hands after a restroom visit, I think its mostly a feelgood thing to do rather than useful in terms of hygeine. Think about what you do when you wash your hands: 1. dirty hands: open the faucet. 2. rinse/soap/rinse. Hands now clean. 3. close faucet...WAIT A MINUTE- that's the same faucet you just touched with dirty hands. So you just "undid" your handwashing. 4. Grab a towel (many restrooms have manually activiated towel dispenser, so another dirty contact point. So unless the towels have hand sanitizer on them (nearly all do not), you've really done nothing. 5. open restroom door and waslk out. Well there goes another dirty contact.