June 18, 2009
Through the filter of time ... a repost that may still be interesting to you from two years ago.
The NYT is running a piece discussing the domestication of the cat.
I love watching wild cats. It is fairly easy to see them in the Kalahari, where the population of cats is almost certainly…
June 18, 2009
Sean really needs to start using a script, but I'm showing this to you because it does include a couple of nice tips.
June 18, 2009
This could change your life. A little.
June 18, 2009
I just got this massive continental plate sized press release from JPL. Below the fold.
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NASA Gives California's San Andreas, Other Faults a 3-D Close-up
When a swarm of hundreds of small to moderate earthquakes erupted beneath California's Salton Sea in March,…
June 18, 2009
One in four South African men ... said they had raped someone ... three out of four who admitted rape attacked for the first time while in their teens.
... practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding.
...
The research was conducted in both rural and…
June 18, 2009
People like to help pregnant women.
On buses it is routine to give up one's seat for a pregnant woman. In Boston, drivers try less hard to run over pregnant women in crosswalks. And so on. But sometimes good intentions can lead to bad advice.
First, I'd like to point out that there is…
June 18, 2009
The Minnesota Supreme Court spokesperson Lissa "No-that-is-not-a-typo" Finne has told Greg Sargent's Blog that the other blogs suggesting that the court would issue a decision today are incorrect. Finne indicates that sometimes the court tells the involved parties on Monday about a decision on…
June 18, 2009
PETA has become the laughing stock of the Planet Earth when it called for a change in US government policy regarding the swatting of flies by the POTUS.
From the PETA web site:
Well, I guess it can't be said that President Obama wouldn't hurt a fly. The commander in chief was recently pestered by a…
June 18, 2009
The Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival is up at Wanna Be an Anthropologist. Please visit the carnival, click on all the links, digg up and stumble all the entries, etc.
June 18, 2009
According to various sources which can not be named but that are being reported by the Capitol Report, the Minnesota Supreme Court is likely to make a decision today, Thursday, June 18th. If the decision is anything other than to support (uphold) the decision of the three judge panel which…
June 17, 2009
So, Amanda had some 400 photographs that needed to be viewed, selected from (maybe a several dozen selected), then each chosen photo converted to jpeg format, resized to 100o pixels wide and saved.
She began the process on her Windoze laptop. The first photograph took about a minute or two.…
June 17, 2009
Linux in Exile has refined the empirical test of which operating system boots more often. Details and discussion here.
Of course, it also matters that Windows requires constant rebooting for the purpose of routine maintanance, while Linux does not, so the total 'boot wait' time (TBWT) for the two…
June 17, 2009
I had no idea that there were Public Broadcasting Stations that aired church services and such things. I suppose this is because I don't live in Alabama or someplace.
Anyway, PBS has done (mostly) the right thing by baning this practice.
The Public Broadcasting Service agreed yesterday to ban its…
June 17, 2009
Michele Bachmann has publically vowed to refuse to answer any of the questions aside from the number of people in her household for the upcoming census. This could land her a 5K fine.
Bachmann is avoiding the census because Acorn may be involved in recruiting people for the process. It is well…
June 17, 2009
Minnesota Post reports from the Minnesota Independent a Twitter Report from Matt HIll indicating that Al Franken and Norm Coleman were on the same flight to Washington DC yesterday.
The outgoing Senator, Coleman was in First Class. Franken was in Coach.
Just thought you'd like to know....
June 17, 2009
The following press release has just come across my virtual desk:
Letter from Conservative Leaders Implores Senators to Filibuster Hate Crimes Bill
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- This week, a letter is being hand-delivered to every member of the United States Senate imploring…
June 17, 2009
Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest. But after a 60-year-old physician committed suicide over the weekend, Utah senators are saying the raid was overkill.
The…
June 16, 2009
June 16th is Captain Picard Day!
Hat Tip Miss Cellania
June 16, 2009
Help out Chad with his latest data collection effort:
Of course, I can't very well ask people to leave comments about how messed-up the comments are, so I've been forced to resort to something higher-tech...
A POLL!!
June 16, 2009
And other wonderful concepts.
Hat tip, TwoPuttTommy
June 16, 2009
Cloud Appreciation Society agrees. Scientists skeptical, but considering the possibilities ....
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As Bill Nye says, it could all be a matter of perspective ...
June 16, 2009
The Republican Party is looking for direction. They want ideas about policy, and in particular, about how to react to the Obama administration's positions on a number of issues.
You can help them. This may take a few minutes of time but you may find it .... interesting.
Mike Haubrich has the…
June 16, 2009
Maddow on torture. "I make up stories."
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We need to just get these documents out now, in full.
June 16, 2009
Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent
April 11, 2007
The public persona of the Atom is mild-mannered physics professor Ray Palmer, who fashioned a lens that enabled him to shrink any object to any degree he wished. The lens's secret ingredient is a chunk of a white dwarf star, and a 1960s…
June 16, 2009
For those of you interested in Super Heroes, check this out:
Superhero alter-ego Steve Rogers - the original Captain America - is to come back from the dead in a new five-part Marvel Comic series.
The first part of Captain America Reborn will be out in the US on 1 July, but its makers will not say…
June 16, 2009
Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg
June 16, 2009
Here is the Guinea Worm Movie, and for more information and additional links, click here.
Minor Africa Story hidden below the fold.
A small Jimmy Carter story: A friend of mine got a job, while in his first or second year of graduate school, as in intern for the State Department. Since he…
June 16, 2009
is now available at Thoughts from Gut Bacteria.
June 15, 2009
This visual representation of the inside of a Linux Kernel build clearly had an image of Jesus Christ hidden in it.
(There is some context here.)
June 15, 2009
[On June 19th] we'll be talking about Astronomy with popular author and super-blogger Phil Plait!
And, as usual, we have a lot of questions.
Like, why is Pluto now not a planet? What's NASA up to lately? And what's the deal with the Hubble Telescope? How do we know we really landed on the moon? Is…
