Archives for April, 2009
Congressman Keith Ellison Arrested
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2009 Did he take a bribe? Did he try to buy a senate seat? Did he misuse campaign funds?
Everything Worth Reading
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2009 … is a blog carnival that you can read HERE. It is loaded with the best stuff on the blogosphere. Or in the blogosphere. Whatever. Go check it out, you will not be sorry. I especially draw your attention to the Post of the Month, because its brilliance as a piece of written work is…
The Young Birder’s Guide: A Bird Book for the Middle Schooler
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2009 This is a repost of an earlier review. Bill Thompson’s Young Birder’s Guide The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides) is a book that I highly recommend for kids around seven to 14 years of age. (The publishers suggest a narrower age range but I respectfully disagree.) This is…
Swine Flu Threat Update
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 The most significant thing that has happened over the last 24 hours or so is that the CDC has confirmed a handful of Influenza A (H1N1) Swine Flu cases in new locations. Previously, cases were only identified in Texas and California. Now, there are cases in Ohio (1 case), New York (8 cases), and Kansas…
The Storm
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 This is the final Congo Memoir. The penultimate installment is here. The final installment is below the fold …. If you are interested in issues pertaining to the Congo that are quite current, consider having a look at Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (recently made quite well known by being…
Company Fires Facebook Using Employee After Stalking Her
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 A Swiss was fired when she was discovered to be using facebook at a time when she had claimed to be too ill to use a computer. She claims she was just checking her facebook account on her iPhone, and that the company had created a pseudonym on facebook, and that this pseudonym was monitoring…
Twitter Revolutionary Speaks Out
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 The Moldovan capital, Chisinau, was rocked by protests earlier this month amid claims that an election which returned the Communist Party to power was rigged. The BBC’s Oana Lungescu spoke to Natalia Morar, the journalist accused of masterminding Moldova’s “Twitter revolution” – so dubbed because many demonstrators were alerted to the protests by text and…
Possible Cleopatra Tomb?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 A tomb in Egypt, on the sea coast, is being investigated by Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, who claims it is the final resting place of Cleopatra and her main squeeze, Mark Antony. One of the pieces of evidence used to make this claim is a mask with a cleft chin, just like Richard Burton’s. It…
Minnesotans Want Coleman To Give Up in Senate Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 Only 28 percent of Minnesotans think Coleman’s current appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court is appropriate. Sixty four percent think he should give up now. Seventy three percent feel that he should not go beyond the State Supreme Court if he loses there. The will of the people has been heard in both the voting…
1950s Facebook Training Film.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 ROFL. HT: BZ@FB.
A good day for birds.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 This was not an intensive bird watching day. This was a day driving to the cabin, sitting in the cabin writing, looking out the window, driving to run an errand, going to town for dinner, sitting in the cabin looking out the window some more, etc. But the birds insisted on performing. So I thought…
Replace Michele Bachmann
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 …. The Web Carnival, not the General Feeling We All Have, is up at Quiche Moraine Dot Com. This is a good one. It has videos and everything.
A New Field Guide to the Birds from The Smithsonian
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 OK, not so new, but still relevant. The following is a repost of a review of this book. New Smithsonian Field Guide Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Ted Floyd is a newcomer to the bird field guide scene. This guide offers a new combination of features that may make it…
The Tex-Mex Flu: Current Situation
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 Here is a brief summary of what we seem to know now.
Maude is Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 Actress Bea Arthur, who played Edith Bunker’s Cousin (and some other roles on stage, screen, and TV) has died at the age of 86.
Away With All Gods!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 Minnesota Atheists’ “Atheists Talk” radio show for Sunday, April 16, 2009, 9-10 a.m. Central Time: Away With All Gods! Guest Sunsara Taylor
Freed Hostage Takes Exception to Rush Limbaugh’s Racist Remarks
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 Shane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he’s not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as “black teenagers.” “It feels great to be home,” said Murphy in an interview with WCBV…
Republicans: Texas should split off. Maybe.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 25, 2009 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Gunfire In The Streets
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 …continued… I was just stepping out of the store, where I had purchased a piece of cloth to bring back to the US, when I heard the awful sound.
How do you know when to start worrying about the new Swine Flu threat?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 Well, at some level, you should be worrying now. This is serious. But there are a lot of other things you should be worried about as well, such as the nuclear threat and, if you live in tornado alley, tornadoes. But when do you have to start paying attention to current information, bulletins, and so…
Maddow on Torture
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 Including some discussion of Judge Bybee. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Friendship, grief, anarchy, fine dining, and random gunfire
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 I was trying to explain to a friend who does not read my blog what I’d written about a set of related topics, and realized that what I’ve done may be a bit confusing. So, I’ve assembled the titles and links to these posts into a simple chronological list. If you’ve only read one or…
My Sblings are being extra interesting today
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 You’ve heard about the swine flu that is about to sweep across the land? Here’s the latest from a reliable source. Do people in the south ever wear confederate military uniforms to funerals, or is Mike Dunford confused? More on Twitter from James Hrynyshyn An excellent post explaining why global warming is not real. Or,…
Why do you think they call it “dope”?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 I had mentioned earlier the discovery of Morris the Jewish hardware store owner and Mr. Bryne the Jewish department store owner. There are two ways in which Jewish people seemed to play a disproportionate role in the retail world when I was growing up. In fact, there was an overarching ethnicity to much of the…
Splogs
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The Fair Syndication Consortium Thinks So. As newspapers and other publishers watch their revenues diminish, one common refrain among them is that maybe they should somehow go after Google or Yahoo for aiding and abetting the destruction of their businesses and sometimes the wholesale theft of their…
Goldie the Gopher is a Girl! And other strange sightings
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 I had the strangest afternoon yesterday. I went and picked up Julia at school and brought her back to the U. My plan was to attend the retirement party of an honored colleague, Phil. The first strange thing was hanging out for fifteen minutes or so with my 13 year old Daughter at the University…
What is an editor?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 Well, a person who edits. Are editors passe, no longer of use, old school, in the New Media of the Internet? Maybe. Maybe not. Here is a post suggesting that Editors have a role, and an important role, and I have a feeling that this is going to be the beginning of an interesting discussion.
Obama’s first 100 days
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2009 The first 100 days of totally stupid crap about Obama from the right wing.
Ancient Documents On Line
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 The World Digital Library has released the first in a new set of ancient documents. I’m very excited that this includes quite a bit of Sumerian material, because that is what I’ve been reading lately.
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