Spice Ridge Portmanteau

Jan 02

blogger.diff on Ticket #13458 – Attachment – WordPress Trac -

Import from blogger prepends ‘>’ character

Droop Mountain, New Year's Day, 2012 -

New Year’s early morning featured sun and blue skies over the valley fog, but by the time I left the house for the First Day Hike at the Droop Mountain Battlefield Park, these high…

Dec 26

Maria Popova's Beautiful Mind | Mother Jones -

How she reads so much

Dec 25

What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones -

“The first rule of fact-checking is that everything you read and hear is wrong.”

Dec 24

Illegal flare burning near Richwood » Today's Front Page » The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

Dec 10

BBC News - Brain changes seen in cabbies who take 'The Knowledge'

Dec 04

The Berkeley Pit - Butte, Montana Superfund site, tourist attraction - Failure magazine -

“Though it might seem an irredeemable place, it turns out that the Pit—located in the mining town of Butte, Montana, and operational between 1955 and 1982—is proving to be a rich source of unusual extremophilic microorganisms, which have produced novel and compelling bioactive metabolites.

Read more: http://failuremag.com/index.php/site/print/the_berkeley_pit/#ixzz1fb2KZMJ9

Are You Ready for High Allegheny National Park? | The Revivalist

Dec 03

Fundamentally: Newt Gingrich’s Favorite Word -- Daily Intel -

“Newt Gingrich, you might say, is the world’s most hard-core fundamentalist…..
To give you a more complete understanding of how compulsively Gingrich abuses his favorite words, I searched Nexis transcripts and news accounts with the goal of plucking out every single phrase in which he uttered them. I started in the present day, and made it all the way to the beginning of 2007…. behold all loosely alphabetized 418 entries.”

How to Make a Deadly Pandemic Virus | Mother Jones