Von Skippy, I wish being smart was not a bad thing. But I know from experience that men can be quite intimidated by a woman they perceive as smarter than they are. And a perception of intelligence sets up some high expectations. The dolphins had the right idea.

As far as income goes, I don't mind that different jobs pay different scales. But its awkward to find out that a guy doing the same job with less seniority, less talent, and fewer responsibilities is making way more money.

Jerry, I would really like to see a picture of your rabbit carrying a plastic pumpkin!

Disclosing IQ and income are the two things that are guaranteeed to make someone else feel badly. If someone reveals theirs, everyone else is either going to be higher or lower. That can engender envy or guilt, needlessly.

Then you also want to avoid hearing this: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"

There is a difference between wisdom and intelligence.

Wisdom is what makes you keep your IQ a secret.

I think they rely too much on algorythms and links in and out, and too little on actual content. If I were compiling such a list by my gut (and I monitor the internet for a living), I would divide the subjects more evenly. This has too much repetition in politics and not enough arts and literature, technology, education, religion, entertainment news, science, and international news. I would also select blogs with more content. For example, HuffPo and Daily Kos have tons of authors and content, those would cover left~wing politics by themselves. I'm sure you could find high~content blogs for right~wing politics and other subjects that would do the same. Science Blogs is good for that reason, but its not all~inclusive; there should be more science outlets.

Another caveat: I'm not familiar with all of these. If they'd posted the name of the blogs instead of just the URL, I might find it easier to understand.

That's definitely an instrument of torture.

I thought glacier when I watched it, but I didn't want to presume, so I went with the way the video was titled at Live Leak.

Metal shards in my bagel! Lawsuit!

I thought it was cute! But I could also hear the complaints rolling in, in my head.

Don’t know the song, but YouTube user gwhoosh left a translation in the comments.

Bamse (bear) and Lille Skut,(rabbit) hopping in the forest,
Then came Skillman (turtle) stomping, and he tripped on a cat.
Bamse said, "Come here, come here kittykittykittycat
And you'll get a meatball when we get to where we're going."
Then they saw grandma's house up on the hill
Lille Skut he ran so fast the whole way there
Then Bamse said, "Now you're running too fast, too fast.
Wait on us others! We don't have such long legs and Skalman, he's tiiiiired."
"Tiiiired."

"Come into my cottage and you'll get to eat
[ok I can't hear what they say here, too high pitched]
"Don't you want any honey, big, strong Bamse?"
"No thanks, no thanks, not right now because I am so fuuuull."
Then the little house mouse said, "[I don't know....]
Bamse ran so fast, so fast and caught Jansen's cat.
"Oh no little cat, you'll get a tummy ache,
Don't be a troublemaker run to grandma's house."
Now the story's done.

There was another great Thai ad, I believe, that involved ceiling construction and lizards in love, but I can't find it in the archives.

I read another story, the link I cannot find now, about the beginning of the surgery. Lakshmi's parents were encouraging and stoic until the anaesthesia took effect, then her mama broke down in hysterics. That had to be so very frightening, but she had put on a happy face for the baby's sake.

I taught my kids about negative numbers as part of money management. Your debts and/or outstanding bills are negative numbers. It will be easy to shift that to temperature... but I hope it doesn't get that cold!

Thanks, shadowfirebird! I was a bit confused about that; Camelot seems to be one of those things everyone in England knows, so its not explained to us Yanks.

I would think she cannot control them, since she can't walk or crawl on her own.