January 7, 2009
The government of Iran sucks.
Doctor Arash Alaei and Doctor Kamiar Alaei are two Iranian physicians who have reportedly been detained in Iran by Iranian authorities. The physicians, who are brothers, were apparently arrested at the end of June, 2008 and their current whereabouts are unknown.…
January 7, 2009
Always carry a fossil with you.
January 7, 2009
Hey, my outgoing mail server is borked, so the only way I can communicate with the outside world is via my blog. So here are some critically important messages for several individuals.
Rick McPhearson: Yes, thank you so much for taking the initiative. I'll do whatever you want, as always. Just…
January 7, 2009
Using only a Beer Glass and a few other household items and ingredients.
January 7, 2009
As I'm sure you already know, you can type this into a google search box:
time Minneapolis
and you can put lots of different words in there and get the time.
What you may not know is this. If you look at the page you get back, there is a little clock graphic next to the time. The time on the…
January 7, 2009
Oh. It runs Linux.
January 7, 2009
As you know, Senator Elect Barack Obama appears to have chosen neurosurgeon, former policy wonk, and CNN medical/health correspondent Sanjay Gupta to be surgeon general. There is an overwhelming display, on the science blogosphere, of diversity in opinion about this choice. My opinion: WTFC? He…
January 7, 2009
Consider Super Ubuntu. It is a version of Ubuntu that includes additional extra stuff that many people install anyway.
Here is a wiki page about it.
And you can download an ISO here. (That web site might make a little noise.)
I have not tried it. If you do, let me know how it goes.
January 7, 2009
And other Republican Hypocrisy.
The long term plan is to keep Franken out of the Senate forever. Not likely to work. The short term plan is to "taint" Franken, so that morons like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan (MSNBC) and Ann Coulter can constantly refer to "Franken" and "Tainted" in the same…
January 6, 2009
Activists from Texas who call themselves the Austin Informant Working Group have added their voices to the chorus denouncing Brandon Darby, who gave information to the FBI while posing as a protester to infiltrate groups planning demonstrations against last November's Republican National Convention…
January 6, 2009
When Woody Allen was little, and his mother told him to clean his room, he countered that he had no room to put his stuff. So he was waiting for the universe to expand for a while, then it would be possible to clean his room.
Since then, cosmologists have admonished that expansion of the universe…
January 6, 2009
And David Attenborough in a tiny little boat.
January 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal published an editorial yesterday called "Funny Business in Minnesota" which is so full of inaccurate innuendo and fallacious factoids that when I read it I thought I was reading a piece of junk mail from Ann Coulter.
Well, the honorable web site Five Thirty Eight has torn…
January 6, 2009
Details are just coming in now.
LIVEBLOGGED
They are suing regarding: the missing ballots from Minneapoilis (that won't go anywhere, already settled); Double counting (that issue was killed off already, it will go no where) and absentee ballots (they have a small chance that this may develop into…
January 6, 2009
It turns out that a recently discovered population of land iguanas on the Galapagos is probably a new species that represents the basal (original) form of Galapagos land iguana. Moreover, this iguana is found in an unexpected place, according to a paper just coming out in the Proceedings of the…
January 5, 2009
This is my favorite web carnival, and this is the best version of it yet, owing to the outstanding submission we have this month!
Welcome to the 15th Monthly edition of the blog carnival Linnaeus' Legacy. I thought about being cute and fancy for this edition of the carnival, but instead, I decided…
January 5, 2009
Heath and Deborah Campbell had three children. They named them:
JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell
Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell
Adolf Hitler Campbell
That, right there, would be child abuse. Do you not agree?
The story is making the rounds (h/t: McDuff) because it is little Adolph's third…
January 5, 2009
Well, from McDonald's, actually.
Expérience McDonaldsby PeteRock
January 5, 2009
This important story was broken by the Minnesota Independent.
The agency that runs the airport refused an apparently serious offer to buy the men's room stall made famous by Craig's 2007 conviction for disorderly conduct in a sex-solicitation sting operation by the airport police. The…
January 5, 2009
As many of you have already heard, the recount process in Minnesota to determine the outcome of the Senatorial race is over, and Al Franken has been certified as winner.
There is now a review period of seven days during which any voter in the state of Minnesota. Including me, Al Franken,…
January 5, 2009
South of the Zambezi River, along the eastern side of Africa, things get dryer and dryer as you go south, until you finally reach the southernmost end of the continent where things become a little bit moister again.
A couple of thousand years ago cattle keeping people speaking Bantu languages and…
January 4, 2009
The original video couldn't make it, so here's a substitute teacher video:
January 4, 2009
Helen Suzman was for many years a lone voice among white South Africans in power, actively opposing Apartheid. She died on New Years day at the ripe old age ofr 91.
She was buried today.
The mourners included President Kgalema Motlanther and the last leader of apartheid regime, F W de Klerk.
Mr…
January 4, 2009
UPDATE: We suck. They're pretty good. We do not deserve to win. If by some chance we do manage to win, we should not accept it. We suck.
... is going pretty well. We are losing by only a small amount.
Mike wanted me to live blog this game, but I assure you that you don't want me doing that.…
January 4, 2009
I would like to begin by reminding you that the next edition of the Linnaeus' Legacy blog carnival will be hosted HERE In theory, it will come out tomorrow, but I have the sense that a few more submissions (your?) are still to come in, so I may delay posting until Tuesday morning. So you have…
January 4, 2009
Ebola is a viral disease that only occasionally infects humans, but when it does, he fatality rate is very high. In some population, where culturally determined methods of treating the dead involve a lot of contact with bodily fluids and where people are unaware of techniques to avoid spread of…
January 4, 2009
Sheril has asked for suggestion on live trapping mice, and since this is a bit involved I thought I'd blog it. Please feel free to add your suggestions below.
First, on the bait. Mice are granivores, so attract them to grain. The ultimate grain ... the orgasmically excellent purest grain-extract…
January 4, 2009
... regarding the likely response by Coleman following the certification of the Minnesota Senatorial Race tomorrow (Monday) by the Canvassing Board.
No matter who wins, either party can lodge a legal challenge, potentially pushing the election results out quite a period of time from now. In 1969…
January 4, 2009
The following announcement is from Nature.
About a year ago, an Editorial in these pages urged scientists and their institutions to 'spread the word' and highlight reasons why scientists can treat evolution by natural selection as, in effect, an established fact (see Nature 451, 108; 2008).
This…
January 4, 2009
I am NOT hallucinating! I wasn't sure at first, but I checked on YouTube and Game Show in my Head is real! And it's below the fold...
I love the way the wife keeps thinking this nightmare is over, but it isn't until it is....
This is why you can NEVER believe anything you see on the news:
And…
