Eric Busboom

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Trying Out Google and Facebook Friend Connect

Would you be my Friend? Here is Google’s Friend Connect Widget: And Here is Facebook’s. Facebook requires a lot more work, because you have to program in XFBML Your picture, if you are logged into facebook: Here are a bunch of your friends:

More Capitalism!

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The Perfect Evening

The Perfect 5:00: The Perfect 5:45:

Child Sacrifice, For Children Who Love Freedom

Mummification, human vivisection and live burials in a format children can understand. Yes, really. You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Inca Mummy will let parents address most of the uncomfortable questions that don’t involve sex, including human sacrifice, what happens when you yank out someone’s heart, the various ways of clubbing someone to death, and [...]

Dispatch from the Battle of the Sexes

Yes, we play golf to get away from you: Secret #2: We actually do play golf to get away from you More than 21 million American men play at least one round of golf a year; of those, an astounding 75 percent regularly shoot worse than 90 strokes a round. In other words, they stink. [...]

Life Before Child

Although I’d never go back, there are a lot of things I did before children ( the boy and the business ) that I don’t do much anymore, like hiking. Here is a link to Gary Stowell’s website detailing a hike to Carrizo gorge in 1999.

I Used To Be Famous For Slipperyons

Before child, I hosted an annual iceblocking party at Kate Sessions park. Here is a video from James Hicks, where I explain the physical theory.

Geeky Calling Cards

I created a new personal calling card, and decided to emphasize”Geek”:

A Post-4th Celebration of Capitalism

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Science Reporting Malfeasance at the New York Times

I’ve frequently found that the New York Times will publish articles about scientific research that directly contradict the research. In this article the NYT reports that:  A 1999 study by Alan B. Krueger of Princeton and Stacy Dale of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation found that students who were admitted to both selective and moderately selective colleges earned [...]