Posted in Birds, WANT Wednesdays, Wildlife on Jul 30th, 2008
All I really want this week is my favorite birding spot back. For the past couple years I’ve enjoyed going down to the riverside of the St. Joe on IPFW’s campus (that’s Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne) and observing the waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls, and songbirds that live in the mixed habitat there. There’s a wooded [...]
Posted in WANT Wednesdays on Jul 29th, 2008
Okay, okay, so I know it is Tuesday, but I wanted to get a jump start on my WANTs for the week.
Before I continue, I’d like to extend a congratulations to Butter for his great linkback on ScienceBlogs.com. Check it out!
Now, down to business. This week, I think I’d like to talk about media conversion. [...]
Posted in Sci-Fi on Jul 28th, 2008
I just discovered SciFiNow. It’s an independent British sci-fi news and review magazine, and it’s great. (Its publisher has a line of several other techie review magazines, but they’re not connected to the producers of the content they review, unlike, say, the Sci-Fi Network’s rag.) I mean, just look at that cover! We have [...]
Posted in Birds, Saturday Birds on Jul 26th, 2008
You probably know that starlings can form huge flocks (I’ve had a few moderately sized ones descend on my backyard before), but the spectacle of some of the larger ones is otherworldly:
The phenomenon is so impressive and seasonably reliable in southwestern Denmark that they have a name for it: sorta sol, or “black sun”. It’s [...]
Posted in Sci-Fi on Jul 25th, 2008
Waffles and I went to see the new X-Files movie. It’s essentially a long stand-alone episode, set in the series’s present, with Mulder And Scully both separated from the Bureau: Mulder hermiting himself up in an old cabin somewhere and Scully doing the Lord’s work(?) in Our Lady of Dimly-lit Creepiness Hospital. Chris Carter, [...]
Posted in Web Videos on Jul 25th, 2008
I’m a type geek. That’s why I like this video a lot. I disagree, however, that Comic Sans is a superhero — I think maybe the creators were making fun of its insane overuse. Ban Comic Sans!
Check it out:
Posted in LOLCats on Jul 25th, 2008
(Presenting a weekly feature where we display an LOLcat picture and overanalyze the caption, in relation to the photo.)
This is about recovering from drug use. The kitten is on the path to recovery from a hard life addicted to cocaine, or meth (it’s impossible to say which, judging by this picture). He is trying to [...]
Posted in Freethought, Web Videos on Jul 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago, this lady was on Colbert:
The combination of faith in revealed knowledge and a lack of evangelical zeal struck me as damned odd. It’s a combination that I’ve seen in other religious moderates, and it’s always puzzled me. So indulge me while I piss and moan about it a bit.
Look, [...]
Posted in WANT Wednesdays on Jul 23rd, 2008
Ready for another real installment of WANT Wednesdays? I’m here to bring you things of extreme geekery, depending on your committment to geekdom.
A frakkin’ toaster
We’ve all heard the Battlestar Galactica slang for “Cylon,” right? They call them toasters, and for good reason — they’ll all chrome and shiny just like your little pop-up bread oven.
This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2008
Cats are seriously strange creatures. My cat, for example, will play for hours and hours with an uncooked spaghetti noodle, but when you buy him a catnip mouse, he couldn’t be less interested.
One strange but great thing about them is their flexibility. Check out this video, which is a rather extreme case of the ways [...]
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