Carnivalia, and an open thread

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While the conference site is down and before the new one is built, I need, for myself, a list of blog carnivals I follow, so here I am putting it here for my own reference (let me know if I am missing a delightful and useful carnival - if you manage one of them, make sure I am on your mailing list…
Since there's more to the world than Cephalopodmas, here are some refuges if you get tired of my giddy squiddiness. Skeptics' Circle: the Sagan celebration! Four Stone Hearth #3 Animalcules Carnival of the Feminists #29 Carnival of the Liberals #28 Friday Ark #118 Talk among yourselves…
I'm on an airplane on my way to Washington DC, for an event sponsored by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. It should be good — I've heard that Blue Gal, D-Cup, Phil Plait, and some of the gang from Corrente will be there…and we'll find out who else. I'll report back later! Until…
I'm taking a little downtime from the busy con fun-and-games, and catching up with the various carnival announcements. Mendel's Garden Friday Ark #122 Carnival of Education #102 Four Stone Hearth #7 Skeptics' Circle #52 Carnival of the Liberals #30 I'm here in Michigan for several more…

Just testing ...

OK, perhaps it was the link which the commenting system didn't like.

Evidently not any more, if it was! So it looks like it just didn't want me to post it in the right place (viz the Missouri gay item) with a bit more (quite innocuous as far as I could see) text.

Exercise in useful nostalgia: Quite BASIC.

Classic BASIC meets the web!
Quite BASIC is an all web-based classic BASIC programming environment. There is no download or even signup required!

They've got a Mendelian inheritance example under "Projects", plus some neat math proglets: Fibonacci sequences, Sieve of Eratosthenes, the Mandelbrot set and the Henon attractor.