8 Drugs your doctor wouldn't take....

Interesting -- especially because I have taken three of these, and I'm still taking one. I wonder if I could get acupuncture to work for the bad arthritis I have? I tried getting off Vioxx, and the Celebrex once each -- my hands were pretty much frozen up and unable to do anything by the tenth day. And I was still an LMT working at that point.

Of course the insurance company will pay 80% after the deductible on Celebrex. I doubt they'd pay for acupuncture. I could trade once a week for a month's Celebrex...or twice a week at the student clinic. Seriously thinking about it....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24777955/

You know you want this: The Ultimate Chocolate Chip cookie

Here's the article from Dining & Wine in the NYT -- on finding the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. Look fast, it's the New York Times!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/09chip.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin

And here's the recipe --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html?oref=slogin

Nominate! Be a part of Fannish Feud!

ArmadilloCon, the literary and fun stuff convention held in Austin, Texas for the last thirty years, holds an event called "Fannish Feud". Some of you may have heard of or seen a game show where families competed against each other for prizes. A category would be given, and the family at the starting line (so to speak) tries to come up with the answer most polled people gave. If correct, they could keep going until the had the entire board; if they didn't hit the top slot first, the other family had a chance of stealing the category.

At any rate, Family Feud was silly and people enjoyed it. ArmadilloCon has been doing the Fannish Feud for several years. They need as many people as possible to give answers to their questions, so they will have a good slate of category answers. Go fill out their form -- how many can you answer?

http://www.armadillocon.org/programming/feudpoll.htm