Oh dear god. Disney-logoed DDT-impregnated wallpaper for the kids' room (1947)

Does your 1947 tenement apartment suffer from the kind of disease-bearing insects that thrive in filth? Why not protect your children from this infectious influence by wallpapering every surface with DDT-impregnated wall-paper? It's hygienic and stylish! Available with Disney trademarks!

Dude, I think if KO calls Bauer TWPITW, there won't be hyperbole involved in it.Screw Orally...I think Worst Person tent city has a shiny new mayor. Rip into him, Keith. Use the Latin AND every rotten story you know about Ty Cobb(there are a lot)

I am trying to Make Progress. Had an informational interview this morning, just signed up for some professional development brown bag in a couple of weeks, emailed my building management about non-working disposal. Now I should send some actual applications out, but maybe I'll do my job for a while instead?

15 Animals On Computers

Animals, like humans, enjoy the warm glow of a computer screen dishing out that soft electric light. Dogs and cats seem to be the mainstream pet to put on a computer, but there are also some that may come as a surprise to you.

eta: ION, a cat pushing a watermelon out of the water: [link]

This is so frustrating - talk about being counterproductive, giving ammunition to your opponents, etc.

BREAKING NEWS: scientist admits IPCC used fake data to pressure policy makers

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.’

Chilling error: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrongly asserted that glaciers in the Himalayas would melt by 2035

Dr Lal’s admission will only add to the mounting furore over the melting glaciers assertion, which the IPCC was last week forced to withdraw because it has no scientific foundation.

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Last Friday, the WWF website posted a humiliating statement recognising the claim as ‘unsound’, and saying it ‘regrets any confusion caused’.

Dr Lal said: ‘We knew the WWF report with the 2035 date was “grey literature” [material not published in a peer-reviewed journal]. But it was never picked up by any of the authors in our working group, nor by any of the more than 500 external reviewers, by the governments to which it was sent, or by the final IPCC review editors.’

In fact, the 2035 melting date seems to have been plucked from thin air.

Yay! I am so proud of NO [link]

In news about how my diamond shoes are too tight, I wish my dishwasher had a timer -- I never remember to start it when I'm leaving the house, and it is LOUD and takes forever to run!

What was the most fun thing you did this weekend?

Mine was yesterday's oyster lunch.

My dishwasher has a timer, and I still can't remember to set it. I should have done this load days ago. Here's to hoping I remember tonight.

Why, migraine, why? It's only Monday!

My dishwasher has a timer, and I still can't remember to set it.

I am pretty good with that kind of thing -- if I can do something about [whatever] right when I think about it, rather than when I really need to do it, I will. Like, the other day I stuck the Groupon in my purse mid-day so I wouldn't forget when I wanted it for dinnertime.

Most fun thing, probably above-mentioned Groupon pizza dinner at a friend's.