links for 2006-08-31
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“We collect photographs of bugs from the United States and Canada for identification and research.”
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“Frank Zappa on CNN’s Crossfire in the mid-80s debating censorship of rock music.”
8/31/2006
8/30/2006
links for 2006-08-30
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(via John)
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more themes
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Early 19th Century Vocabulary
8/29/2006
links for 2006-08-29
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short video from the person who does Autism Hub that profiles several of the lunatics in the “Cure Autism”/”Defeat Autism” camp.
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Wilderness First Aid Courses
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decal goes on the door, first responders look for the info in the house
8/28/2006
Tom Toles Cartoon from Sunday
Have a look, email it to each other, print it out, stick it on your door at work. (thanks John)
Here is a local copy. It does not seem to be available online anymore.
links for 2006-08-28
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Universism:
1. Your beliefs and your actions are your responsibility alone. 2. Believe what you want, so long as your beliefs allow all to believe what they want. 3. Do what you want, so long as your actions allow all to do what they want.
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beyond sad…
8/25/2006
links for 2006-08-25
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great mashups using Google Maps
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Apple’s detail page for the battery recall
8/24/2006
And Then There Were Eight…
Pluto is now a “dwarf planet.”
Dinky Pluto loses its status as planet [AP]
[A] planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must “clear the neighborhood around its orbit.” That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune’s, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.
Astronomers have labored without a universal definition of a planet since well before the time of Copernicus, who proved that the Earth revolves around the sun, and the experts gathered in Prague burst into applause when the guidelines were passed. (…)
The decision by the IAU, the official arbiter of heavenly objects, restricts membership in the elite cosmic club to the eight classical planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Pluto and objects like it will be known as “dwarf planets,” which raised some thorny questions about semantics: If a raincoat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, why isn’t a dwarf planet still a planet?
NO H20 4U LV
Today’s Daily Glean at the Las Vegas Gleaner has a tidbit concerning a former employer of mine.
Water Czarina Pat Mulroy’s Great Las Vegas Water Grab is not merely a matter of natural resource management or a study in the economics of growth addiction. Mulroy is fighting for a key tenet of Nevada’s heritage, namely, the long-recognized right of really powerful interests to steal from people while pretending that the people don’t exist. The people are suing. AP, LVRJ.
Some things never change, at least in the Desert West. Water=Power. If I get your water, you have no power. Compare with California Water Wars, William Mulholland, Owens River, Chinatown, etc.
A bar in Ely sells “NO H20 4U LV” bumper stickers. Heh.
8/23/2006
links for 2006-08-23
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via kottke’s remaindered links
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I was getting ready to get snotty and huff, “I read this elsewhere.” Then I noticed it was in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. from 2003 by Robert L. Park who wrote “Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud,” where I first read this list…
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World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. [sadly, Windows only]
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still more motivational posters, exemplary of this collection is the Intelligent Design poster [via Pharyngula]
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The hobbit: was it a work of fiction? The three-foot tall creature was hailed as a new species of human. Now research casts doubt on the claim. general review/update on the “hobbit” controversy