Green Gabbro

• Telling Stories: February's Scientiae Carnival Hooray, hooray, for Scientiae! This month's theme brings us lots of stories about what sexism looks like in everyday life... and some less depressing entries as well.
• Stratigraphic layer-cake T-shirt I would buy it immediately, but fortunately for my wallet I got stuck nitpicking the weird clastic dikes. Callan Bentley has more about why it is a wholly unrealistic piece of art.
• Global warming skeptics claim Patriots win Superbowl "Common sense demands that a team which makes up less than 0.05% of the population of Hudson County can't possibly be responsible for upsetting the greatest sports franchise on Earth."
• More on medical geophagy in chimps: montmorillonite clay and the origins of life -- Chimpanzees eat clay because it catalyzes biochemical reactions to fight malaria. The chimps in this study were eating mainly kaolinite - I wonder if they would display a preference if given a choice between different clay mineralogies.
• Blogging on Pseudoscientific Douchebags An icon (and maybe someday an aggregation service) I can endorse!
• Justice Department to Treat Gay Employee Group Equally Hey, look at that! The Attorney General did something that doesn't make me want to throw a rock at my computer!
• California Solar Power History -- A neat Google Maps widget that shows the takeoff in solar power in California in the last 8 years. If you know your San Francisco area geography, check out the difference between Berkeley and Oakland, and contemplate tax incentives.

I've decided to buy the stratigraphy t-shirt after all. This will actually be the first piece of previously-unworn non-sock/bra/underwear clothing that I've purchased for myself since... uh... I can't remember. Probably sometime in 2004. I'm not what you'd call a fashionista, but I am occasionally a sucker for geekwear.

Wait! No! I bought some tank tops last summer. Anyway, Threadless offers store credit to people who successfully spam their friends. So if you are a Threadless regular, please spam me with an invitation to buy that t-shirt.