November 3, 2009
The following video is NOT from a Home Depot. It is, however, from a Vodka warehouse. But this could happen anywhere with fork lifts. Well, OK, more likely when fork lifts and Vodka are mixed. Which just proves ....
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November 3, 2009
If you said "cat" you'd be partly right. If you said "naked lady kneeling on floor" you'd be closer.
This photograph may help explain:
This is the work of Craig Tracy, highlighted in The Telegraph, and who's web site is here.
hat tip eolake
November 3, 2009
The current health care reform bill(s) do not address actual health care ... like what procedures to use and stuff ... as much as they address insurance. This is a health insurance reform bill, not a health care system reform bill. (Though there is necessarily overlap.) Nonetheless Republican…
November 3, 2009
This is the stupidest thing I've seen all day.
November 3, 2009
We have an interesting conundrum. Our offspring (______) is due on November 20th. This places the likely date of birth just prior to Thanksgiving. This causes many people to get very excited because they get to see and play with the new baby. I wonder how mad at me all those people are going to…
November 3, 2009
Please do me a favor. Start collecting those bogus-ized copies of Darwin's Origin being distributed by Ray Comfort. We're low on firewood up at the cabin. Oh, and if you see Ray, puke on his shoes for me, OK?
It's not that I like burning books. But this is not burning books. When Ray Comfort…
November 3, 2009
If you read my blog, you know my friend Stephanie, who co-blogs with Mike Haubrich and me at Quiche Moraine, and who writes Almost Diamonds. Stephanie is undergoing surgery this morning, so I thought you'd like to go here and leave her a note.
What are the details of her surgery? Not my place to…
November 3, 2009
This is truly amazing. Of course, since this is the first such video, how do we know if this particular little guy is doing it right?
First video of the Marvelous Spatuletail Hummingbird's amazing courtship display by Greg R. Homel, Natural Elements Productions and distributed by American Bird…
November 2, 2009
Not all of them, of course. But I really am getting annoyed that the supposedly "normal" Christians are not doing a better job at taking down people like "Amber" at "Christwire" who tells us that she is "Extremely Terrified Of Chinese People ... but I'm not a racist."
The article in question is…
November 2, 2009
From a Yale press release:
Yale University researchers have detected the effects of natural selection among two generations of contemporary women and predict their descendents will be slightly shorter and chubbier, have lower cholesterol and blood pressure and have their first children earlier in…
November 2, 2009
hat tip: DMB
November 2, 2009
The Go Green Expo is, according to its organizers, the nation's leading eco-focused, interactive and educational showcase. It will debut at the Minneapolis Convention Center this coming weekend, including talks, presentations, and exhibits from a variety of sources including "green businesses".…
November 2, 2009
From the BBC:
Councillors in a rural town have staged a mass resignation after becoming tired of criticism from a blogger.
We could just leave it at that and know our power. Or we could look at the details more closely:
OK, 11 out of 15 council members of the town of Somerton, England resigned on…
November 2, 2009
This is very funny:
November 2, 2009
The following press release touches on a recently emerging and probably valid method of addressing some infections.
New research shows that cutting down the amount of fat particles in cells may be an effective way to prevent the dengue fever virus from replicating and spreading.
Howard Hughes…
November 2, 2009
Google is great, and yes, I know all those tricks that make it greater. But I still want to use REGEX in some cases. So, I figured out a way to do that, in theory, all I need now is the code...
Briefly, the software I need, which I shall call googlereg for now, feeds the harvest from a google…
November 2, 2009
The seasonal influenza virus is extremely adaptable: each year, it evolves ways to evade vaccines, forcing vaccine makers to come up with new formulations.
That evolution, known as antigenic drift, occurs when viruses change the sequence of their major surface protein, known as hemagglutinin (HA).…
November 1, 2009
Athens, Ga. - Each year, the influenza virus evolves. And each year, public health officials try to predict what the new strain will be and how it will affect the population in order to best combat it.
A new study by an international team of researchers, led by assistant professor Andrew W. Park,…
November 1, 2009
To me, the Oakland Bay Bridge was always one of those bridges that made you think about bridges when you drove over it. It is very long (one of the longest in the world) and spans an arm of the sea. It is old, and there are earthquakes in the region now and then. So as you drive from one end to…
November 1, 2009
A Russian circus troupe were rehearsing for a performance in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when the incident happened.
Workers had to drag the bear away during the attack, according to the director of the arena, Kurmangazy Isanayev.
The exits were closed off as staff waited for the emergency services.…
November 1, 2009
"If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry Left never will." -- President George Bush, addressing the RNC via satellite feed, September 1, 2008 "I Am The Angry Left." -- T-Shirt seen at demonstration outside RNC,…
November 1, 2009
This is has been around the internet, most notably HERE, where most people have seen it already.
But, just in case you have not seen it and are having religious angst on this fine Sunday morning, check it out:
I think it will be interesting for many people to see where they would flow on this…
October 31, 2009
There appears to be a new blog at Science Blogs, and it is APPLIED STATISTICS!!!!! That's the name of the blog, and that's what it is about, and the blogger is Andrew Gelman. Welcome Andrew. We needed a stats blog, and it is very nice to have you here.
So now, a statistics joke:
Three…
October 31, 2009
As promised, the footnotes for A True Ghost Story.
1Unless this statement itself is not true, in which case, how can you know what is true and what is not true? And besides, it can't really all be true because some of it is about ghosts.
2Who wants to be alone sitting in the dark?
3I use the term…
October 31, 2009
The McGregor Museum is a complex building with several wings surrounding an inner court yard, a multi-layered roof, balconies everywhere, and numerous trees in the court yard close in to the building. So, a cat can spend the heat of the day in the shaded crown of a tree, and the cool of the…
