If you like invertebrates (and who doesn’t?) check out the Circus of the Spineless at Burning Silo.
I take a casual interest in insects and other invertebrates, but one thing you quickly realise is that they’re really hard. I first really appreciated this when, quite pleased with myself for recognising something as a ’scorpionfly’, I tried [...]
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Creepy-crawly goodness
31 May 2006 – 8:55 am
And in the beginning was the video
13 May 2006 – 12:06 am
According to TUAW:
This video was ripped from a videotape (which explains the lack of video quality) of the 1984 Apple Shareholders’ meeting, where the original Macintosh was unveiled.
It’s either a very good spoof, or… well, genuine.
Square America
10 May 2006 – 9:52 pm
A post over at On The Flipside pointed me towards Square America.
The ternness of terns
4 May 2006 – 4:38 pm
George Szirtes discusses people’s need to identify things - flowers, birds - something he doesn’t share. Indeed he sets up (but slightly backs away from), an opposition between the botanist’s way of looking and the artists’s way. He ends like this:
Yet all the time I am aware that even an urban citoyen of the imagination [...]
Figgy Dowdy, Sussex Pond Pudding and English food
26 April 2006 – 10:34 pm
I got back to England to find, appropriately enough, that some food blogs, English or otherwise, celebrated St George’s Day (Apr 23rd) by cooking English puddings, cakes, biscuits and other sugariness.
Why British food has such a bad reputation, and whether it’s deserved, is a question for another day. One kind of British food that has [...]
LOL!
3 April 2006 – 5:13 pm
From the IHT, via Londonist:
School officials in a Florida county said they were concerned about terrorism when they decided to keep a high school band from marching in a London parade, and now British officials are telling travelers that Fort Myers is no safe haven, either.
Local officials fear that the dispute could cost Lee County, [...]
Atheism again
31 March 2006 – 4:27 pm
I said a few posts ago, about my own atheism, “I don’t believe in unicorns either, but I’m not about to go to any meetings about it.” Well, I haven’t been going to any atheist meetings, but I have been reading the comment threads at Pharyngula, which is a pretty good internet equivalent.
My own [...]
MAKE, folk art, and postpoems.com
16 March 2006 – 1:46 am
I love MAKE: Blog. Not because I actually want to make my own automated cocktail dispenser or LED tank-top that plays Conway’s Game of Life, or even an iPod Nano arcade cabinet. But I love the fact that there are people who do these things. A while ago, I went to the Folk Archive exhibition [...]
Hummingbird names
15 March 2006 – 12:23 am
Roddy has a list of some interesting names of birds found in India over at Vitamin Q. I can’t resist adding some of the species of hummingbird found in Venezuela:
Glowing Puffleg
Mountain Velvetbreast
Lazuline Sabrewing
Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
Spangled Coquette
Gorgetted Woodstar
Forktailed Woodnymph
White-necked Jacobin
Fiery Topaz
White-vented Plumeleteer
Black-eared Fairy
White-bearded Hermit
Pale-tailed Barbthroat
Booted Racket-tail
Sapphire-spangled Emerald
Merida Sunangel
Green-breated Mango
And that’s without even getting into all the non-hummingbird [...]
Wordpress Theme Competition
11 March 2006 – 10:59 pm
The WP theme comp I mentioned entering before seems to have been a peculiarly elaborate hoax, though I can’t see what they gained from it. Anyway, there’s now a new Wordpress Theme Competition set up by people miffed at the collapse of the last one. I’ll probably enter it – after all, the alternative is [...]
The Lipstick of Noise
9 March 2006 – 3:09 pm
Poetry MP3 blog The Lipstick of Noise is back up and running.
Wordpress Theme Competition
3 March 2006 – 12:03 am
Well, that Wordpress 2.0 Themes Competition I entered has had 188 entries. Hmmm. I’m not sure I like those odds…
It’ll be interesting to see what people have come up with, and to find out what the judges were looking for.
Learning algebra
28 February 2006 – 12:41 pm
Something Kevin said sent me towards an article in the Washington Post about the uselessness of algebra to normal life, and the ensuing mouth-frothing response in the comments over at Pharyngula.
Two things I’d say. It rather makes me despair to see people talk about algebra as though it was advanced mathematics. Algebra is hardly even [...]
Evolution, ID, Carl Zimmer, monkey-men and suchlike. Again.
27 February 2006 – 12:52 pm
I’ve just added The Loom to the linkroll. The Loom is the blog of Carl Zimmer, who wrote the excellent and rivetingly eye-opening Parasite Rex, as well as the excellent but marginally less riveting At the Water’s Edge. They’re both worth reading, but the parasite one would be my recommendation just because the subject matter [...]
Remind me to go and live on a hill
23 February 2006 – 1:56 am
Watch London flood!
From the very cool DDE. Not good news for those of us south of the river.
Testers wanted - again!
9 February 2006 – 3:13 pm
Sorry to be a pain. If I’ve got this right, the test blog should look exactly the same as it did last time you checked; it’s just much more intelligently designed. Or possibly more evolved.
I think it’s nearly ready for submission, now.
Ha-ha.
7 February 2006 – 10:32 pm
Guy #1: Dude, all this Groundhog Day shit is bullshit. It is impossible for something to not have a shadow. All things that move have shadows. If it don’t move, then it don’t have a shadow. Groundhog Day is bullshit.
Guy #2: Dude, you’re a dumbass. Only living things have shadows.
from OHiNY
Wordpress 2.0 Theme Design Competition
2 February 2006 – 1:07 pm
I’m somewhat tempted by this Wordpress 2.0 Theme Design Competition. I wouldn’t enter either of my curent themes, though. I couldn’t use the swifts one anyway, because the photographer never replied to my request to use his photo, and while I only feel mild guilt about breaching his copyright on this site, I can hardly [...]
AOMSHJDOTBD
28 January 2006 – 12:23 pm
Geoffrey Chaucer has a blog. It looks like posts only come along every few motnhs, but this made me laugh. Via Ancrene Wiseass.