In Other News...

I can't write everything. Luckily, there are thousands of other publications doing all kinds of interesting writing without my help. Here's some stuff from the news wires that's caught my attention, plus a few mediating comments.

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Cubeecraft Papercraft Toys
The Sherpa's guidance: Get yourself a color printer and an X-Acto knife, and get to it!

Charitable Donations Appeal to the Heart, Not the Head
The Sherpa's guidance: Small and her colleagues, in a series of field experiments, delved deeper into the issue of sympathy and how it relates to charitable giving -- with surprising results.

Crazy Anti-Feminist Lawyer Suing Columbia Gives Craziest Interview Ever Granted
The Sherpa's guidance: He is suing Columbia, where he attended business school, for having a women's studies department. Et cetera.

Cows Point North
The Sherpa's guidance: Using satellite images on Google Earth, German scientists were able to see that all over the planet cows stand with their bodies pointing to magnetic north.

How the Nose Sniffs Danger
The Sherpa's guidance: The next time someone says, "I smell danger in the air," that might literally be true — and the odor might be coming from you.

42 Great Photos of Abandoned Properties
The Sherpa's guidance: There is something intriguing about deserted places and abandoned buildings -- a combination of mystery and history, danger and thrill.

Minority Report-Style Ads Coming To Life
The Sherpa's guidance: Really, I want police to swoop in and rescue me from bad purchases that I am about to make.

John McCain Was Never Tortured!
The Sherpa's guidance: Everything that happened to McCain during his captivity now falls under the category of perfectly legal interrogation, as practiced by the United States.

Get me girl-drink drunk!
The Sherpa's guidance: Statistically, the reader base for The Urban Sherpa is 67% female. This one is for them.

How to Meditate
The Sherpa's guidance: Simple tips to help silence that noisy noisy mind.

Does air conditioning make people vote Republican?
The Sherpa's guidance: Blame A/C for the decline of the labor movement and for the election of George W. Bush.

Oh, Well -- the Internet Hasn't Led Us Into a New Dark Age
The Sherpa's guidance: Socrates thought the advent of writing would wreak havoc on the powers of the mind.

The Best Books Ever Written About Love
The Sherpa's guidance: John Armstrong, author of The Conditions of Love, recommends his top ten books on love.

The Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority
The Sherpa's guidance: How Democrats can win big in 2010 and beyond -- by doing the opposite of what they're doing now. Think FDR-style liberalism, not McGovern.

A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton
The Sherpa's guidance: Ignore your sniping campaign team. Smart advisors would tell you to give Barack Obama your undivided support from now until Election Day.

'Anime Eyes': The Creepiest Addition To The Contact Lens Craze
The Sherpa's guidance: From the ad: "Wanna get big, watery shiny eyes without any surgery?" SURGERY?!?

Recession Blamed for Decline in French Toplessness
The Sherpa's guidance: The recession has finally hit us where we live.

Rich people rooftops in NYC
The Sherpa's guidance: (photos)

Video Games Are Terrorists
The Sherpa's guidance: Do not be alarmed, but according to The Christian Post, there are terrorists in your house right now.

Algae: Solution to Peak Oil?
The Sherpa's guidance: Algae produces an astounding 5,000 gallons of oil per acre. Corn, by comparison, produces a measly 18 gallons.

8 Timeless Classic Movies That Critics Are Afraid Of
The Sherpa's guidance: Fans will defend them with the ferocity of a grizzly bear mama protecting her cub. That is why these 8 films, each deserving of at least a little criticism, frighten us into submission.

25 Annoying Things About Non-Gamers
The Sherpa's guidance: #15 No, his name isn't Zelda. It's Link.

The 10 Oddest Travel Guides Ever Published
The Sherpa's guidance: "Baboons Are Simply Too Small for Leopard Bait."

Lego Robots Send Pictures from Space
The Sherpa's guidance: 7 Lego Mindstorms robots attached to a weather balloon, which exploded at 30km, sending each parachuting back to earth.

Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Modem
The Sherpa's guidance: The hardest step may be the first one: Apple keeps removing the NetShare application from their store.

How to Feign Sincerity
The Sherpa's guidance: Nothing says sincere like a willingness to:

5 Reasons Why We Are So Fascinated By the Montauk Monster
The Sherpa's guidance: We all knew, deep inside all along, that monsters were real.

Identifying Who Survives Disasters, and Why
The Sherpa's guidance: In moments of total disaster — plane crashes or terrorist attacks — something happens in our brains that affects the way we think.

Underwater, a disturbing new world
The Sherpa's guidance: Multiple strains of E. coli bacteria and botulism spores thrive in the new underwater garden in Lake Michigan.

Has Apple Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew?
The Sherpa's guidance: As Apple expands its reach into music, video, consumer electronics and phones, it's getting harder for the company to make sure its products "just work."

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