The very freshest, sweetest, neatest Tangled Bank is now online. It's got links! To science!
P.S. A few people are worried that the Panda's Thumb seems to be down right now. They're having some server problems, it's nothing to be too concerned about (it is not an external attack), and they're in the midst of migrating to a new server anyway, so all should be well again soon without too much fuss.
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Why would you want to install Ubuntu as a "server" rather than as a desktop? The simple answer is: If you need to ask, you don't want to do it.
You all know about the honey bee waggle dance. A bee finds some nectar, returns to the hive, does a dance that communicates information about where the nectar can be found to other bees, and off the workers go to get the nectar.
We are hoping that the infuriating failure of the Scienceblogs servers to keep up with traffic leading to submission timeouts (just as aggravating for bloggers as commenters) will be cured by a server upgrade which is to begin shortly. We have just been informed by our Seed Overlords (a.k.a.
Tom Vanderbilt has a fascinating article on the infrastructure of data centers, those server farms that make Google, Facebook and World of Warcraft possible.
While we're waiting for PT to come back online, I'd appreciate any comments the real biology people have on my write-up about Behe's chloroquine problems. This is the sort of thing an ignorant physicist is apt to screw up, in details if not in grand strokes. :-/
No worries. Here is the latest on Jonathan Wells...
http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com
Unlike talkorigins, which did suffer a denial of service attack some time ago.