My friends, fuck planetariums.
May God bless America!

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I love 419 scammers. “419″ refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code, dealing with fraud, and classifies all those creatively unconvincing emails about wealthy African aristocrats who died and — GASP — left all their money to me!
Here’s the latest one, which is almost a piece of art:
From Miss Marie Ahmed
01 BP Rue [...]

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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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What more do you need?

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Last week we had a bird that can dance. This week, how about one that’s mastered interior decoration and landscaping?
Ornithology – David Attenborough – “The Bowerbird”

I really, really love bowerbirds. Their display behavior is a fascinating example of sexual selection, and their capacity to make individual aesthetic choices raises intriguing philosophical questions. [...]

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For my first entry I’d like to share with you all this recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana:

Lyrics with English translations are available at this companion site to an introductory Latin textbook by Gavin Betts.1 I recommend following along as you listen.
Carmina Burana is a cantata that Orff, a German composer, premiered in [...]

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Like many people of my ilk, I have a slight obsession with personal productivity. I read blogs like Lifehacker, DIY Planner, and 43 Folders every day. But for some reason, my time management skills don’t get any better. Why is that?
I think that, like your pizza preferences and spirital beliefs, the way you organize yourself [...]

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Whitey is missing!

Whitey is one of four feral domestic Greylag geese that have taken up residence on the IPFW campus. They’ve been there at least since summer 06, when I first started paying attention to campus wildlife. Like most escapees and their progeny, they’ve joined up with whatever wild goose flock they can find; [...]

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So Waffle and I are starting a blog.  It seemed the thing to do, since it’s a way for me to share some of the things I learn and do about these disconnected interests of mine.  Expect some dispatches from the worlds of backyard wildlife, physics, history, atheism and humanism, theater, and sci-fi.  And LOLcats.  [...]

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