Coke MSDS

Did you know that if you spill Coke, you should provide clean-up workers with protective clothing, chemical resistant gloves, and safety glasses with side guards?  If you ingest small amounts of Coke, you should be treated with milk of magnesia or glasses of water or milk to dilute the substance.  If you ingest large amounts, seek medical attention, but do not induce vomiting.

Communal Living Lite

This sounds like it could fun, though challenging.

Cook Smarts

Have you heard of this meal planning service?  I read about it on a blog.  It sounds intriguing -- for me, the most onerous part of daily cooking is the planning and the attempts to minimize waste, and it sounds like the service does all that for you.

Women and leisure

I found this quote from a Slate article interesting, especially in light of our discussion about video games:

In her wonderful book Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, Washington Post reporter Brigid Schulte recommends that women allow themselves to really play. "Understand that for women, there never has been a history or culture of leisure or play, unless you consider sweeping, making cheese, churning butter, quilting and knitting your kind of fun."

Goats that scream like humans

I like the bloodcurdling screams at 0:14 and 0:55.

Zentangle

Have you heard of zentangle? It's like a systematic doodle where you're repeating patterns to create a larger and coherent drawing (but not of anything, just consisting of patterns). Supposedly it's not about the final product, it's about the meditative process (hence the "zen"). I'm skeptical -- I looked into it because I tend to fill my margins with repeating shapes that turn into larger patterns, and I thought this would be a more fun and productive thing to do, but everything I've seen is focused on selling you stuff. There's an official kit, and certified teachers who teach classes, and an emphasis on "official" zentangles which have to be a specific size and following their method.

Periods

Fascinating Quora answer to the question of why women have periods even though menstruation is "a shameful waste of nutrients, disabling, and a dead giveaway to any nearby predators."