Friday, August 20, 2010

USGS, Ugh

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The title is a bit of an overstatement I guess. I generally don't pay very close attention to USGS's Frequently Asked Questions ; m...
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This I Believe

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So one of the big news items of the last couple of days has been that nearly a fifth of Americans believe that the Obaminator is a Sooper Do...
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Big Pictures From Russia... In Color!

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Today's Big Picture features 34 stunning color photos from from Russia a century ago. ...Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-19...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Weather Underground WunderMap

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Weather Underground WunderMap Consider this a test. I just discovered the Weather Underground Wundermap a couple of days ago, and it does ...

Field Notes From An Idiot

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I've seen this around in various places recently... typical wingnutty wasting of time and resources to make a meaningless statement, fro...
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Dimensions

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BBC has a fun project, "Dimensions," which allows you to plot various areas and distances against a landscape that's familiar...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Local Water Blogs

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A week or so ago, a young woman came up and introduced herself as Abby, and asked if I wasn't the person who did this blog... which, of ...

Wednesday Wednesday

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This was Darius Whiteplume's "It's Wednesday!" post last week , and I really liked this one. This week's is pretty go...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Ground Zero

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I had read that during the late sixties and early 70's Afghanistan was, if not a "first world" country, actually fairly modern...

Tuesday Tits

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A tit in the hand is a very nice thing indeed. I've fed chickadees like this; they're very inquisitive and bold. Blue tit, Cyaniste...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Rolling A Very Big And Many-Sided Die

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There have been a number of stories implying that the scale and severity of the Russian drought and accompanying wildfires were in and of th...
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"Hallowed Ground"

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Here's a set of photos taken in Manhattan (these are the first two of about a dozen), about the same distance from ground zero as the p...

Monday

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Woke up at 3:30. Spent two hours trying to get back to sleep, then gave up. Early coffee today. It's Monday. Coincidence? I think not....
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Arid Lands

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The NYT has an article and video clip promo for photographer Murray Fredericks' trekking about on Australia's Lake Eyre: The Lake E...

Sunday Funnies

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Criggo Pygalgia Lolcats Pundit Kitchen Criggo Dr. Boli Alphaville Sober in a Nightclub The High Definite Failblog The Daily What MthruF Lolc...
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