Complex Numbers

Housekeeping

On my computer at work, I have a Favorites folder called "Blog Fodder." Into it I drop the random links people send me, some of which end up here. But there's usually more links than I want to blog about, or maybe some of them fit a theme while others don't.

But now, even after deleting the links I know I've already blogged about, I'm left with half a screenful of Web pages.

Like this one: a physician's reference to "Things I learned from my patients."

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985

#6 Never, ever leave flashlights, shampoo bottles, beer bottles or any long, circular object on the floor because someday you will fall on it and it will somehow, work its way up your rectum.

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If you are a 70 year old man with COPD, and you want to clean the toilet really well, go ahead and mix the ammonia and bleach. Most of us learned not to do this before the onset of pubescence, but give it a try regardless!

Yeah, some of those are disturbing.

But not as disturbing as this, which actually came to my attention today and not last year like the doctor one.

6 Absurd Phobias (And The People Who Actually Have Them)

The savagery of nature can be chilling. Lepidopterophobes remind us that were it not for the advent of long sleeve shirts, we would all be completely exposed to the rabid butterfly hordes fluttering about.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16472_6-absurd-phobias-people-who-actually-have-t...

(And, yes, fear of clowns is in there, even though it's far from absurd. "Coulrophobia." Doesn't sound very "coul" to me.)

Lest we end this melange on a sour note (as in the sour stink of fear), I found this one amusing because, on a recent trip to NYC, I saw a bum in a subway with a sign that said, "Tell me off! $2"

12 Funniest Homeless signs

http://www.2spare.com/item_92528.aspx

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