October 6, 2008
At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.
The Red List of Threatened Species says populations of more than half of mammalian species are falling, with Asian primates particularly at risk.
The biggest threat…
October 6, 2008
McCain's recent history (September 13th, 2008)
Why is the distant history of John McCain as a prisoner of war always part of his resume, but his more recent history in the savings and loan failings of the 1980s and 1990s is never mentioned?
McCain was one of the senators in the Keating 5 who took…
October 6, 2008
Eh, hoserz... this little dairy cow makes us Minnesodans look like those New Yorkers, eh?
October 6, 2008
In response to the Palin/McCain accusations that Barack Obama is a terrorist,* there is now a documentary called "Keatining Economics: Johh McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis.
Below is a short preview. The full documentary will be available at 12 noon today (October 6).
Here is a summary…
October 6, 2008
The fastest, most efficient file manager in Linux is the set of GNU tools including ls, cp, and so on. But if you want a graphical user interface, you pay a cost in overhead. Considering how important file management is, and how easy it is to screw it up, a good GUI is probably worth the overhead…
October 6, 2008
Michele Bachmann Three born again Christians ... a member of the US Congress, the President of the United States, and a convicted felon now under investigation ... have been caught in a complex conspiracy involving money and a Presidential Pardon. At the very least, this is an excellent…
October 6, 2008
In a powerful new television spot intended to help Minnesotans get to know the real Al Franken, his wife Franni reveals her struggle with alcohol dependency and talks about Al's work to support her and others in the same situation.
October 5, 2008
An article in the October 2nd Economist asks professoinal economists what they think about McCain vs. Obama.
AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters' concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who…
October 5, 2008
And from the archives:
October 5, 2008
Candidate Al Franken, incumbant Senator Norm Coleman, and that other guy had their first (and only?) debate today, and from what I hear, Franken mopped the floor with Coleman (and that other guy).
I don't have any video of the debate, so here's an Al Franken ad instead:
October 5, 2008
I want to thank Brian at Laelaps for digging this up. Normally, I would just link to him and send you to his excellent site, but this is so freakin' good that I cannot pass this up. But go read Brian's comments on this anyway, please.
As Brian points out, Palin explicitly says that she believes…
October 5, 2008
"If it does not fit, you must acquit" Circumstances can create consequences. If Homer Simpson happens to be opening and closing his mouth in a chewing motion and happens to run into a lemon meringue pie, and thusly happens to eat said pie, it is not Homer Simpson's fault that the pie is eaten…
October 5, 2008
Of highly autochon ... allotou ... no, allochtonoo...allochthunu... no, that's not right either...
.... highly allochthonous!!!!.
Give him a visit and say hey!
October 5, 2008
Here, in part, is Sarah Palin on SNL:
Palin banning books:
Ever notice how Sarah Palin an Dick Cheney have a LOT of similarities? Gun love, power hungry, and that crooked mouth thing?
October 5, 2008
Source (where you will also find a Bush train).
October 5, 2008
In the Gallup Tracking Poll for the US election, Obama leads McCain for the ninth straight day, and for the seventeenth out of the last nineteenth pollings. We will have to see if the absurd new tactics being attempted by Palin and her running mate McCain will have an effect on this one way or…
October 5, 2008
... one by the reporter (listen carefully), the other .... well, the other is running for vice president. On one of the tickets.
October 5, 2008
Just in case one might think I was exaggerating in my comment that McCain/Palin are playing the "terrorist" card quite explicitly, have a look at the BBC headlines:
October 5, 2008
News as surfaced linking an influential Minnesota congresswoman to crime that is a least semi-organized.
This is not exclusive to Minnesota, but I am frequently annoyed at how the average Minnesotan is aghast that anything like this ever happens here. Bottom Line: A person now linked in a…
October 5, 2008
McCain/Palin have as of yesterday adopted a new strategy for winning the election. They are now openly and explicitly accusing Barack Obama of being a terrorist. I am not making this up. McCain/Palin are making reference to a fund raiser early in Obama's campaign organized by a former 1960s era…
October 5, 2008
Speaking in Tongues, A Campaign for Jesus, The Third Wave and so on and so forth.
Please remember that this is the woman who, when asked if Dick Cheney's power grab as vice president was OK, replied 'yes, and I'd like to do even more'....
October 5, 2008
Hardware has gotten faster and more powerful, but the damn computers do not boot up any faster than they used to. Well, maybe a little, but not enough. Meanwhile, the primary system people use, Windows, has become increasingly bloated. As a result, it is very difficult, as it always has been, to…
October 5, 2008
The Tangled Bank
The Festival of the Trees 28 - Art and Arboreality
The Carnival of Evolution #3
Shakespeare Blog Carnival #7
Working at Home Blog Carnival-105th Edition
Cancer Research Blog Carnival #14
Just Write Blog Carnival
carnival of the vanities
Carnival of Cinema: Episode 95 - Do the…
October 4, 2008
Via lifehacker:
Don't believe that part about where Jupiter is. As far as I know, the planets move .... (which is why they are called planets, yes?)
October 4, 2008
In a recent election in the District of Columbia, an extra 1,500 votes were added to the vote count that were never cast. Apparently, these votes were caused by static electricity. Or something.
New measures are being taken to make sure irregularities in September's D.C. Primary vote don't…
October 4, 2008
...in 1908!!!!
I debated the fit for this post on this blog vs. my own, and decided that it belongs here for about five or six reason that you can figure out for yourself.
Science News has put up a site that shows numerous images from the presidential election of 100 years ago, including actual…
October 4, 2008
The Carnival of Space at Alice's Astro Info
The Replace Michele Bachmann Carnival!!!
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE at A Blog Around the Clock
the Athletic Alley blog carnival
Friday Ark #211
I and the Bird #85 - The Show Must Go On
October 4, 2008
The Jackson County School Board has taken action against a teacher who apparently made racial commentary on presidential candidate Barack Obama.
According to parents and students in Greg Howard's seventh-grade social studies class, Howard on Friday, Sept. 26 asked the class a question regarding…
October 4, 2008
Constructivism. Determinism. It is all a bunch of hooey.
A recent paper published by PLoS (Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces) throws a sopping wet blanket on widely held deterministic models of human behavior. In addition, the work underscores the sometimes spooky cultural differences that…
