August 7, 2009
OK, there is this blogger named Steve. Steve is of some interest, so let's see who he is. This is what Steve says this about himself in the about section of his own blog:
Though I grew up in Garland, I was born in Irving. And my dad's biggest bragging point about me is that you could see Texas…
August 6, 2009
Have you noticed that lisp programmers have taken over the formatting of the dummy-notes on MSNBC?
First, what are dummy notes. Dummy notes are those phrases that show up near the bottom of the screen that summarize, in a word or two, what the person on the screen just said. What I've noticed is…
August 6, 2009
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael…
August 6, 2009
Hat Tip: The Faithful Penguin
August 6, 2009
So, I have this friend who lives in the Midwest (nearest large city of consequence is Chicago1), who shall remain nameless (well, she has a name and all but I'm not telling you what it is) who brought up an interesting, not unusual, and sad dilemma.
She has just moved into a new living situation,…
August 6, 2009
Shut up and play yer guitar.
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August 6, 2009
I and the Bird #106: Four Years Young! Say no more. Just go read it!
August 6, 2009
On this day in 1945 ...
The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, USS Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest…
August 5, 2009
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August 5, 2009
Ginny Barbour, Part 5: Open Access, Achievements and Looking Forward from PLoS on Vimeo.
Hat Tip: ABATC
August 5, 2009
... Over the Dead."
"Hey, you can be so stupid sometimes," chimed in another of the guys. "That's a monkey tooth. I'm sure of it. Of course, how would you know, since you've never been close to a monkey!"
At Quiche Moraine
August 5, 2009
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis .... in her brentwood home, on this day in 1962. She was 36 years old.
A concerned housekeeper called doctors to the scene, who were forced to break into her bedroom. This was in the days when you could call a doctor to the scene, and no special group of…
August 5, 2009
The man who entered an LA Fitness aerobics class and killed three women and shot many others legally purchased the two Glock 9 mm guns that he used. This makes him the current poster child for banning the sales of handguns in the US. Now. Not just one gun a month max, not just guns to people who…
August 5, 2009
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August 5, 2009
Health Care Reform is no longer designed to kill old people. Now, "Obamacare" will mandate free sex change surgery!
... Well, I've always wondered what it would be like....
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August 5, 2009
This is a follow-up on the TED talk I just posed.
These are my reactions in real time as I watched the video:
We start off with a very inaccurate statement that we are not interested in the chimp-human differences. It is, in fact, all we palaeoanthropologists think about.
She overemphasizes the…
August 5, 2009
Coincidentally, this appeared over night in my inbox. My critique of it is here.
August 5, 2009
..that even when you try diligently to separate the politics of religion vs. creationism and to say again and again that religion can go along its merry way as long as it stays out of the science classroom, people like Casey Luskin will still find the words in your rhetoric to accuse you of…
August 4, 2009
This has come up a couple of times recently, so I thought I'd summarize the information here.
The distribution of water on Earth in cubic kilometers
Salt water:
1,318,062,462
Glaciers:
28,005,430
Groundwater:
12,270,210
Lakes:
106,396
Swamps:
13,452
Rivers:
2,446
Vapor:
13,000…
August 4, 2009
The Forest County Potawatomi Community have been very involved in environmental activism both within their own community and more broadly. They helped curtail environmentally destructive mining at Crandon Mine. They got their reservation registered as a Class I zone under the Clean Air Act and…
August 4, 2009
The 'documentary' (or, actually, "stupidumentary") Expelled! No intelligence allowed ... bla bla bla ... coordinated with this release will be a novel called Fossil Hunter, by John Olson (obviously a made up name) ... bla bla bla ... which is about a scientist who is maligned and harassed by the…
August 4, 2009
Elwyn Tinklenerg has withdrawn his bid in the race for Michele Bachmann's seat in congress. Tinklenberg had run against Bachmann last time around, and carried out what started as a rather Quixotic race against the then very entrenched Bachmann, but received a great deal of extra funding and…
August 4, 2009
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I would like to add to this report by Maddow that it is also the case that Cash for Clunkers is also being used by the Republicans as the reason to not pass health care reform. How does that work?
August 4, 2009
IF, if fact this IS your birthday.
August 4, 2009
We expect a press conference from the State Department any moment now, so you may want to tune in your radios if you are following this story.
Bill Clinton is reported to be in the air, or something close to in the air, on his way to North Korea to negotiate the release of journalists Euna Lee…
August 4, 2009
In Aramaic Lightning = Baraq, Heaven = Ouranos = "hight place" = Birds and Air = Satan and Hell = Ouranos = the place Baraq comes from = Isaiah 14:14 = Satan says "Like, I'm going to get most high" = Hebrew word 1116 on the word list = Bama. Oh. Oh bama! Baraq Obamah!
It is true…
August 4, 2009
The Aquatic Ape Theory is being discussed over at Pharyngula. As PZ points out, an excellent resource on this idea is Moore's site on the topic. Here, I just want to make a few remarks about it.
The Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT) is a human evolution Theory of Everything (TOE) and thus explains, as it…
August 4, 2009
Again, Maddow's report on Barack Hussein Obama.
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August 4, 2009
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As I've suggested before, I think this breed of activists are born of the anti-choice movement, recast to support McCain, and now they are here helping us with the health care debate. I suspect they are not going away.…
August 3, 2009
You are PLoS Two today! Here's an old post of mine that gives some of the background on PLoS.
