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October 12, 2006
KDE
3.5.5 released.
On 11 October 2006, the KDE Project releasedKDE
3.5.5.
For packages, please visit the
href="http://kde.org/info/3.5.5.php">KDE 3.5.5 Info Page
and browse the KDE
3.5 Requirements list.
src="http://kde.org/media/images/hotspots/10years.png"
alt="Hotspot" align="right"…
October 11, 2006
These are patterns seen in a salt desert in Iran. I shrank
the images. In order to get the full effect, you need to see
the full-size images. Note these are multi-megabyte files,
which is why I only show a little compressed snippet.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/…
October 11, 2006
Snow is in the forecast for this week. It probably won't be
this bad, but you never know.
Image courtesy of
rel="tag">NASA.
October 10, 2006
An initiative to introduce the teaching of Intelligent Design in
Michigan schools suffered a setback today. The state Congress
was supposed to issue new curriculum guidelines recently. In
September, the guidelines were delayed. Nobody knew for sure
how it would turn out. There was concern that…
October 9, 2006
To be perfectly fair, I should note that not all Republicans are
opposed to protection of the environment. For example, there
is an organization known as
rel="tag">Republicans for Environmental Protection.
One of their members even published an editorial:
href="http://www.rep.org/opinions/…
October 8, 2006
Linux has long been the champion of cute names. For example,
right now I am downloading (via bittorrent)
href="http://distrowatch.com/sabayon" rel="tag">Sabayon
Linux, which is named after an Italian dessert (
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabayon" rel="tag">Zabaglione).
I must say,…
October 8, 2006
One thing I saw a couple of days ago, in Kalamazoo, was a protest near
the office
of their US Representative, Fred Upton. It was a small
protest, put on by the Pink Patrol. I did not stop to see
what the protest was about.
Today, I tried to find some reference to it on the Internet, but there…
October 7, 2006
Charming...
Thai snake
charmer
Khum Chaibuddee bids to set a world record in king cobra-kissing in
Pattaya.
October 6, 2006
I just
got back from my brother's photography exhibit at Dancing Cranes.
It was part of what they call the
href="http://www.kalamazooarts.com/calendar/pdf/Art_Hop_10_06.pdf">Art
Hop in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A bunch of artistic
types agree to exhibit their works in various upscale shops in the…
October 6, 2006
This is outside my area of expertise, so I won't comment on this, other
than to say that it pretty much speaks for itself. The
article is from the journal Pediatrics.
href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/118/4/1664">No
Evidence of Persisting Measles Virus in…
October 6, 2006
This is
another one of those pilot studies that may or may not go
anywhere. Even if it doesn't it might contribute to our
theoretical understanding of major depression.
One nice thing about it is that
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine" rel="tag">scopolamine
is old; presumably, it…
October 5, 2006
Rupert Murdoch is a damn liar. Is there a journalistic board
of ethics? Can Fox's broadcasting license be revoked?
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height="300" width="302">
I know
href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/10…
October 5, 2006
Imagine what kind of money you could make, if you had a $15,000 device
that could slow the progression of Alzheimer disease. The
following clip is from a Medscape news article. (Free
registration is required to view it, but that is better than the
original journal article, which requires a…
October 4, 2006
Caltech grad student Aron Meltzner used satellite imagery for his
research on the Aceh earthquake and resultant tsunami. Not
only did this result in a nice publication, he
got a nice write-up featured at NASA's Earth Observatory site.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Aceh/">Rise…
October 4, 2006
N-[4(2-Amino-4-hydroxy-pteridin-6-ylmethylamino)-benzoyl]-L(+)-glutamic
acid is the name of a vitamin. Since the full name is a bit
awkward, it is more commonly known as folic acid, or
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folate">folate.
The common name is derived from the Latin word for leaf…
October 3, 2006
The
href="http://www.ucsusa.org/">Union of Concerned
Scientists announced the winner of their
Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest: Dr.
href="http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/areasofstudy/history/faculty.asp?print=1&">James
Lachlan MacLeod, Associate Professor of History…
October 3, 2006
The best commentary I've seen so far about predatorgate is in the
href="http://www.bangornews.com/news/t/viewpoints.aspx?articleid=141292&zoneid=34">Bangor
Daily News:
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 - Bangor Daily News
As deplorable as former Rep. Mark Foley’s advances at pages
are, if Congress…
October 3, 2006
"College Town 'Poverty' Exposed:" Exposé or Rant?
The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a story a couple of weeks ago, which
dealt with the issue of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) going
to college towns. The article ran in Sunday's Ann Arbor News,
which is where I saw it. The article itself…
October 2, 2006
href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2006/10/raise_the_gas_tax.php">Jonah
and
href="http://scienceblogs.com/nosenada/2006/10/if_we_did_raise_the_gas_tax_wh.php">Kevin
have already chipping in on this topic. Bob Lutz, the VP of
General Motors, turned a few heads. Not with an eye-catching…
October 2, 2006
href="http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20060930p2a00m0et036000c.html">HOOPESTON,
Illinois -- A small-town theater owner says he was not trying
to send Hollywood a message when he shut down for two weeks rather than
show box-office leader "Jackass 2" or other new releases that…
October 2, 2006
This is from the journal Menopause. The
link goes to the abstract; a subcription is required for full access.
It is a pilot study with results that are not robust enough
to use in routine clinical decision-making, but it does indicate a
possible benefit to supplementation of venlafaxine (Effexor…
October 2, 2006
Except I think it was a different DeVos. As linked by
href="http://markmaynard.com/index.php/2006/09/27/devos_the_domionist"
rel="tag">Mark
Maynard, the irascibly analytical frontman for the
href="http://www.monkeypowertrio.com/" rel="tag">Monkey
Power Trio, Rolling Stone has
href="…
October 1, 2006
Most people are bothered by those passages
of Scripture they do not understand,but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain
HT: Ratboy's
Anvil
September 29, 2006
The voting closes tomorrow, so be sure to go vote for your favorite.
This is from a selection of political cartoons, in the "
href="http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/forward">Scientific
Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest."
September 29, 2006
These two things might be connected. The Washington
Post reported yesterday on the findings of a CDC report on
emergency room preparedness. The Economic Policy Institute
reported on further erosion in health insurance coverage.
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/…
September 28, 2006
The food bank, that is. This is from a sculpture contest.
The rule: everything had to be made entirely from canned
foodstuffs. The canned food is to be donated to a food bank
in LA.
href="http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-canned_j5ynw2nc,0,372926.photo?coll=la-home-headlines…
September 27, 2006
On the way home from work, one day last week, I
href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6096545">heard
some excerpts from the book,
href="http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=56030755">Imperial
Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone,
by…
September 26, 2006
Who is this? The first in a series of not-very-challenging
science questions...
Notice the resemblance to one of our ScienceBloggers.
This bust is in an engineering building on the University of Michigan's
North Campus.
September 26, 2006
These are red crossbills (
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxia_curvirostra">Loxia
curvirostra) photographed by Elaine R. Wilson.
She kindly uploaded the photo to Wikipedia, where it was
voted Feature Picture of the Day. Note: the image is
copyrighted, but the copyright holder permits…
September 26, 2006
Someone around these parts was writing about
title="spelling and usage note"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_pepper#Spelling_and_usage">chilies
recently, but failed to mention the best: Mesilla Valley chilies.
Zingerman's
sells "New Mexico chilies." Although it would be better for…