June 18, 2010
... that this cat can actually channel a mouse.
June 18, 2010
Someday I will tell you the story of this springbok.
June 18, 2010
Truer words have never been spoken. In an effort to improve, I've taken a few sample photos, including some of the same plant that got me in trouble the first time. They are below the fold, because some will load slowly:
These are images that are 500 pixels wide to fit on this narrow blog.
The…
June 18, 2010
This is as close as one can get:
BTW, I believe it is recommended to NOT hide from a tornado in your car.
Here's some context:
Please ignore the reporter's geographical references. They are quite muddled. The storm did not come from Iowa, and Wadena is not in what most people would call "…
June 18, 2010
An Open Letter to Joe Barton: See Above!!!!
I saw this guy on the TV yesterday, and wondered, "How much did BP pay him to spew that crap!?!?"
I was about to look into it when Mike sent me this blog post. Go read it. Get mad.
June 17, 2010
And not everyone lived through it. Here's my weather blog entry, for what it's worth.
We skirted behind the front, and arrived at the intact cabin (as far as we can tell, it's dark out!) safe and sound.
Wadena was flattened, and two people were killed at two other locations in the state.
June 17, 2010
Who said: 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.'
Click here to find out and read a whole bunch of other famous programming quotes.
While you're geeking out, have a look at The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the "C"…
June 17, 2010
Somewhere in Minnesota:
June 17, 2010
A ten page section of the kid's book "Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be" is available for free download here, at the National Center for Science Education's web site.
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be is available (for money) at Amazon. The NCSE web site is here.
June 17, 2010
Did you know that YouTube has a video editor? It's new. Click here.
And finally, a solar airplane exists. I still want my jet pack.
June 17, 2010
Amazon now owns the patent on social networking. Here. When is this insanity going to stop?
Apple admits mistake over "Ulysses" app.
June 17, 2010
In a moment of astonishing stupidity, Italian prosecutors are taking up a case against geologists who failed to predict a somewhat severe earthquake.
The scientists had investigated a series of low magnitude quakes, and indicated that these quakes did not mean that a larger quake was coming.…
June 17, 2010
I dislike the term "god particle" but I could not resist the play on words ... as researchers at Fermilab suggest that there may be five different versions of the Higgs boson, not just one. This would require, apparently, some rewriting of the Standard Model.
Here's the story in non-technical…
June 16, 2010
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of…
June 16, 2010
Paula Begoun is the bestselling author of "The Beauty Bible" and "Don't Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me." We'll examine the science behind some popular beauty products, and find out what real research says about makeup myths.
Submit a question for Paula to live@skepticallyspeaking.com for a…
June 16, 2010
Check out this thing. It's called the "em chart" and it allows the quick application of the formula that you use to calculate relative "em"'s ... a measure of space in HTML. Web designers who use this sort of technique are making web page that scale properly when the user changes the size of the…
June 16, 2010
startled ...
June 16, 2010
And check out today's picture. It's ... different.
June 16, 2010
Here's one theory:
Earlier this week, Pickle Monger pointed us to the very, very bizarre story of Alvin Greene winning the South Carolina Democratic primary despite being broke, unemployed, holding no campaign appearances or rallies, and having raised no money. No one knew who the guy was,…
June 16, 2010
... maybe.
Maybe there were vast oceans, and maybe they were occupied by microbes. This, according to reserearch being discussed in Natoial Geographic.
A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, scientists say.
The new evidence, from an analysis…
June 16, 2010
Or, not... There is what appears to be a very good FOSS alternative:
Cross platform open source app OpenProj comes to the rescue. OpenProj markets itself as a complete replacement for Microsoft Project and boasts complete integration with existing Project files and Primavera.
Reviewed here
June 16, 2010
Quiche Moraine has a new look, but hopefully the same feel. We liked our old look but it was not working for a lot of our readers. So, we have dropped the Magazine Format and gone to a minimalistic bloggy format. I'd love to know what you think of it.
Also, Stephanie Zvan has a new post that…
June 16, 2010
In a paper that is about to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, researchers Andrew Heymsfield, Patrick Kennedy, Steve Massie, Crl Schmitt, Zhien Wang, Samuel Haimov and Art Rangno make the claim that "The production of holes and channels in altocumulus clouds by two…
June 15, 2010
Pat Robertson, others, claim that this is a sign from god telling us that Christianity is not the true religion.
Well, ok, Pat Robertson others, did not really say that. But they should, according to their modus operandi!
The Jesus Statue located in Monroe Ohio is known as Touchdown Jesus…
June 15, 2010
This is a chart showing a whole bunch of different computer hardware bits and pieces, for reference. Click to embiggen.
From here.
June 15, 2010
This is the Gariep (aka Orange) River sinking into the granite bedrock just before plunging off the cliff at Augrabies Falls, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
June 15, 2010
Let's not forget.
June 15, 2010
A very cooly and heavily illustrated chapter from the book Evolution: The Story of Life by Douglas Palmer is available for free download from the National Center for Science Education . CLICK HERE for the download. Visit the NCSE web site here.
