Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day is always the last Monday in January! You can celebrate by popping virtual bubble wrap or join the LOLcats in a bubble-wrap frenzy.
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An innovative but intriguing idea for saving health care dollars: focus on helping the most expensive patients. Ignoring them only causes the bills to rack up unnecessarily. (via Boing Boing)
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6 Plot Threads Famous Movies Forgot to Resolve. No, you weren’t the only one wondering about Toto’s fate.
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Overthinking it. The curse of the thoughtful person is to imagine the best and then expect the worst possible outcome.
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Brad Goodspeed wondered how an exact copy of the earth would look if it were as close to us as the moon. In this animation, he has earth and several other planets revolving around the earth at the same distance as our moon. (via Metafilter)
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The Rick-Rolling Essay. This student should get an A for effort alone, however misguided.
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Stacy posted a list of The 10 Most Annoying Songs Ever and got 154 suggestions and arguments. Sounds like “annoying” is in the ear of the beholder.
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I 100% agree on the list of annoying songs. Horrid.
posted by Christina on 1-31-2011 at 7:39 am
The article on Helping the Most Expensive Patients was interesting.
I can’t believe how much government intrusion there is going to be with Obamacare.
The “accountable care orginizations” are terrifying…
posted by graham on 1-31-2011 at 11:17 am
The annoying-songs list made me wonder what songs people use to get other songs out of their head? Right now, I had to put on some weird artsy-rock to keep some of the awful bubblegum pop from sticking. Might make a good blog post.
posted by Sillstaw on 1-31-2011 at 2:05 pm
The Plot Threads site had the pic of the creepy guy from Shawshank, who is now going to haunt my sleep! Thanks a lot!
posted by Megan on 1-31-2011 at 8:46 pm