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This one is quick and simple, so I’ll bite. « Pharyngula

Rules:

1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23^rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

The result, thusly: Discover the joys of garbage disposal when the ginger root skins disappear down the sink.

Hm.

Bonus content for tolerating this meme: An recent survey of economics doctorates and doctoral candidates revealed [pdf] that a miserable 22% of those surveyed were able to answer this simple economics question correctly:

You won a free ticket to see an Eric Clapton concert (which has no resale value). Bob Dylan is performing on the same night and is your next-best alternative activity. Tickets to see Dylan cost $40. On any given day, you would be willing to pay up to $50 to see Dylan. Assume there are no other costs of seeing either performer. Based on this information, what is the opportunity cost of seeing Eric Clapton?
A. $0
B. $10
C. $40
D. $50

The authors go on blandly to pontificate on the value-addedness of economics Ph. D.s.

Hurricane Rita seems hellbent on being bigger and ‘better’ than her sister Katrina. She was upgraded to Cat 5 status a few hours ago with maximum sustained wind speed of 165 mph. Current forecasts seem to predict a dead-on collision with the state of Texas with near certainty; fortunately, the Florida Keys escaped mostly unscathed when Rita was at Cat 1, except for some heavenly fireworks as demonstrated by an unexplained fireball lighting up the Florida sky.

Jeff Masters of Weather Underground comments wryly that Rita is already on the list of top-ten all-time most powerful hurricanes to impact North America, and will definitely break at least the Texas state record. That’s saying something for a state proud to have the biggest of everything.

At least they seem to have learnt their lesson from Katrina. Mandatory evacuation orders issued in recent days all along the Gulf Coast, particularly in Galveston, TX, seem to be better heeded by the more stubborn New Orleans folk last month. NASA has evacuated the Johnson Space Center near Houston. George Bush is exhorting citizens to pay attention to the mandatory evacuation orders. And people seem to be getting the point of being right smack in the middle of the most probable path of the hurricane.