Posted in Freethought on Sep 30th, 2008
NOTE: This is a re-post from Freethought Fort Wayne.
I just heard Bill Maher interviewed on Fresh Air on NPR today. He, along with director Larry Charles, talked about Religulous, the controversial documentary documentary lampooning religionists and their beliefs. (Check out the trailer here.)
What I want to know is, as a social group trying to be [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging on Sep 26th, 2008
No, I’m not talking Butter and his affection for birds. I’m talking about the mini-blog web app, Twitter. It’s sort of a dedicated, more sophisticated “What are you doing” feature from Facebook. You can track what other Twitterers are doing throughout the day, and you can post what you are doing.
Now, as you read what [...]
The Obama and McCain campaigns responded to a set of questions on environmental policy sent to them by the Auduban Society. I thought it might be appropriate here to cite their responses to the question about bird management policy:
AUDUBON SOCIETY: Eagles are rebounding from the brink of extinction, but many other birds continue to [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging on Sep 22nd, 2008
Technorati, the closest thing we have to an authority on the blogosphere, posted a report about what we can expect from the bloggy part of the internets. They have statistics, demographics, and some editorials on everything you wanted to know about the blog world.
Here’s just a taste:
With blogging so firmly entrenched in the mainstream, the [...]
Posted in Blog memes, LOLCats, Sci-Fi on Sep 22nd, 2008
We all are familiar with my favorite internet meme, LOLcats. Whether or not you call pronounce it to rhyme with “polecats” or spell out the “el-oh-el”, they are cute, funny, and, um, cute.
I want to share my collection of sci-fi related LOLs with you, too. Check these babies out:
LOLtrek
First of all, check this out when [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 21st, 2008
Overheard as I was walking out of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s opening night concert last night:
“That’s not the sort of thing you pick if you want to get chosen for Fort Wayne.”
Context: This year the Philharmonic is auditioning eight candidates for the Music Director’s position, to replace Edvard Tchivzhel. Each gets to conduct two [...]
Posted in Birds, Saturday Birds on Sep 20th, 2008
Here’s another example of crows doing some problem-solving, this time in Japan:
Ornithology – David Attenborough – “Japanese Crow”
Corvids are known from other observations and experiments to be smart, so this level of problem-solving wouldn’t seem to be beyond them, but it’s always good to maintain a bit of skepticism. There may be confirmation bias at [...]
Posted in LOLCats on Sep 19th, 2008
This one’s adult again, so it’s after the fold. It’s from my zoo trip this summer:
Posted in Books, Web Videos on Sep 19th, 2008
I ran across this video on Vimeo (a YouTube alternative) — it’s sort of a Mr. Rogers-like book at a book factory, and how they are assembled, from author to distributor. As a typophile and a librophile, this is absolutely fascinating to me. I REALLY WANT a typesetting machine, now. (I’m sure Katie would have [...]
Posted in Politics, Web Videos on Sep 18th, 2008
I was going to vote for Barack Obama anyway, but this video, released today, has really sealed my vote. Barack Obama is really good at speaking plain English — having conversations with his audience rather than politician rhetoric. I feel like he’s read the first set of theses from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a hallmark of [...]
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