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On this special Halloween edition of Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia, I link to the living dead. This article is of particular intrest because of the discussion around the differences between the zombies in Romero’s Dead Series movies versus Russo’s Living Dead Series movies.
Why didn’t anyone tell me that the Twin Peaks dvd box set came out today?
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Just finished boning or just returned from a jog? Can you tell the difference?
My score: 9 out of 12.
Go Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are entering into the world series for the first time ever tonight. Exciting stuff. I’ll be watching the game and cheering on the Rockies. Will you?
I too am embarrassed and a bit disgusted with how the ticket sales for the Rockies world series home games went (as many of you are). Right now there is no real way to let Rockies management know how disappointed it’s fans are with how the whole thing has been handled. Here is my idea: every Rockies fan boycott next seasons first nationally televised homegame. Simply don’t attend. This will hurt both the rockies managements ego and their pocketbooks. We’ll have to wait for the 2008 schedule to come out before we find out if this game will be opening day or not (if so, plans might need to be changed) but regardless, if enough people do this, it’ll let rockies management know how upset us true rockies fans are. What do you think? Another website to check out is Crashtober if you are interested in trying to do something about it.
In the mean time, go out and root for your favorite team!
Below is a photo I took I took while watching the Rockies win the National League Championship. Also below is a quick video I took of the scene (unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries and I only got about three seconds of video).
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Some people call me the space cowboy.
Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice,
‘Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.And as a result, I now have this movie on my netflix list. More of Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia.
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The picture above was made from the 1974 Topps Monster Initial trading cards. Unfortunately, it’s practically impossible to find a complete set for sale these days… even on eBay. But thanks to the people at I-mockery, you can spell your own name.
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After having a full day of riding roller coasters the other week, this site with front seat video for 56 of the best roller coasters in the country is fascinating.
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Without comment. Men who look like old lesbians.
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This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is simply a list of fictional doctors from literature, movies, and television. Mind you, it’s a very long list.
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A really fun collecton of hand transformed PEZ dispensers.
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Denver’s second annual zombie crawl will be on Saturday the 20th.
Ecological Footprint And Blog Action Day
Ecological Footprint is a resource management tool that measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes under prevailing technology. Essentially, it measures human demand on nature.The science is actually pretty robust which gives it tremendous merit. Right now, humanity’s Ecological Footprint is over 23% larger than what the planet can regenerate. Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the total amount of new resources that our planet can produce this year.
Figure out what your personal ecological footprint is. Full disclosure of my own personal Ecological Footprint can be found after the jump (and no, I’m not proud of it).
Q: Assuming that (a) Tom Cruise’s level of consumption is in parallel with his annual salary, and that (b) everyone on earth has the opportunity to live like Tom Cruise: How many Earths would we need to sustain this level of consumption?
A: About 2700 Earths. 2700 fricking Earths!
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Dang! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before now. But Cass’, the incredibly cute young thing up in Laramie, pointed me out to Prospector. Prospector is a catalog of twenty three libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to over 20 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials held in these libraries. With a single search you can identify and borrow materials from the collections and have them delivered to your local library. It’s so easy I can’t believe it. This is gonna save tons of time and increase my library usage.
If your interested in other useful local library tools you should check out this incredibly helpful bookmarklet. It allows you to both search for and hold books books at the Denver’s Public Library straight from any Amazon.com book page. This will allow you to quickly find out if the library has the book before I purchase it.
My Spinning Brain
I’m left handed. That’s supposed to indicate that I am more right-brained and my thinking is more visual-simultaneous based versus the linear-sequential thinking of right handers. I don’t know if that’s true or not. But the theory of brain lateralization says this is generally true (And by “generally” I mean 95% of right handers have their language functions in the left hemisphere, only 18.8% of left-handers have their language function lateralized in the right hemisphere. Additionally, 19.8% of left-handers have even bilateral language functions). My personality would indicate that I’m more left-brained, despite my handedness. Here are the characteristics of right and left-brained people:
Left Brain Functions:
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sequential
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
language: grammar/words, pattern perception, literal
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
analytical
safe
verbal
Right Brain Functions:
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simultaneous
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
language: intonation/emphasis, prosody, pragmatic, contextual
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
holistic
risk taking
imagistic
Below is an optical illusion that is supposed to help determine your “brain-dedness”. What direction is she spinning for you? If the girl is spinning counterclockwise then you use more of the left side of your brain. If the girl is spinning clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

For me she was spinning counterclockwise and I had trouble believing she could spin the other way. After about a minute I was able to get her to switch by concentrating on the point where her foot meets her foots shadow.
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