Saturday, January 16, 2010

It's a Small, Small World

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From Strange Maps , the picoplanet: Take the length of the equator on this map, double that distance and you have the width of a human hair....

*sigh* No, He Didn't

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From a link at Uncertain Principles , I found this: " Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science? " The most egreg...
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Saturd80's

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Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me With Science. I discovered today that EMI is very proactive about disallowing embedding of its videos. Too bad...
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Stand-Alone LOLcat

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I generally don't give LOLcats their own posts. If you read this blog fairly regularly, you know I do a large aggregation of funnies ea...

What Is the Same

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...in these two photos? This was yesterday's APOD ... click over for the answer and glorious full-size; scroll your cursor over the pict...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuuuuhhh

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This is one of those things that was so obvious, no one thought of it. Via Great White Snark

Priori Acute

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I admit to being a little mystified by (what seems to me) the recent obsession with the importance of fonts. Some people seem powerfully at...
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Where That Candy Bar Came From

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Via Bits and Pieces

Learn From My Fail

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The Cheezburger Network appears to be adding one or two more sites per week. At some point I won't be able to keep up, but for the tim...

It's Not All Bad News

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From OregonLive , Two year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin, after he is rescued from a collapsed home by B...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Whither the Hinterland?

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Yesterday I mentioned an interesting post by Dave Petley at Dave's Landslide Blog . Here is a passage from that post that is making m...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I Needed a Giggle

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and this gave me one. see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Some Guy I Know is in the News

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In an interview last week for an unrelated story, Robert Yeats , a professor emeritus in geoscience at Oregon State University in Corvallis,...

Today's Trivia

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On Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond....

It Just Gets Worse

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According to The CS Monitor , "The International Red Cross estimates as many as three million people may have been left homeless by Tue...

Maybe I'll Say More, Maybe I Won't

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This is the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before and after. (via The Daily What ) I'm stunned and heartbroken.
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Monday Mineral: Halite in Spaaaace!!

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From NASA's image of the day gallery , crystals of sodium chloride: table salt, or halite in geo-speak. Technically, I think, this does...

It's Official

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We all knew it was coming. NYT is reporting that Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel. ...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

This Makes No Sense at All

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AP is reporting that cadmium , an extremely toxic and dangerous metal, has been used to replace lead in children's toys manufactured and...
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Did You Mean "Priest?"

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Via Professor Chaos at The Daily Irritant , I found this: My contribution was to get a screen capture to document that the good professor w...