The new Seed science bloggers continue to trickle in, and the latest is Evolving Thoughts. Go on over and say howdy.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
The new Seed science bloggers continue to trickle in, and the latest is Evolving Thoughts. Go on over and say howdy.
Today is 6/6/06, that ominous numerological signifier of the fundies, much beloved by conspiracy theorists, and full of interesting numerical properties (but is there ever such a thing as an uninteresting number?). It’s also the date that Ann Coulter’s new book, Godless, is being released.
Everyone is missing the most portentous aspect of the number, though…
Hey, this sounds familiar…so I thought I’d send some favorable referrals back Jinwicked’s way.
If you’re getting tired of the Yearly Kos news, have no fear, it’ll all be over in two weeks. If not, Matt Bai has an article on it in the NY Times. It’s The Future!
It’s been a while, but here’s the noise I’ve been listening to for the last half hour:
| Lord Death’s Counting Song | Shoko Asahara |
| Wanna get next to you | Rose Royce |
| Stranger Inside | Boondogs |
| James Bond Theme | Moby |
| Drunken Lullabies | Flogging Molly |
| Laenge siden (Long Ago) | Sorten Muld |
| Macary | Mamani keita & Marc Minelli |
| Bobby Hughes Combination – Cli | Stephane Pompougnac |
| Skyline | California Guitar Trio |
| Bride in Cold Tears | Tangerine Dream |
Some guy has been nattering on for three years without delivering either the promised puppies or stories, and he thinks he deserves a roast? Notice how I am pointedly ignoring him.
Our Seed Overlords have asked a question (our answering is entirely voluntary, if you were wondering, and we’re only answering because it is an interesting question): “if you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?“
Several of my colleagues here have coughed up answers—Adventures in Ethics and Science (with a particularly appropriate entry),
Living the Scientific Life, and
Stranger Fruit—but I’m going to be a little bit contrary and question the question.
Yarrgh, but I hate that thing—that animated collection of whirling poop-flecks that the History Channel has inflicted on us with that ad on the right. It’s supposed to only show up every 12 hours, and it’s supposed to be disabled on browsers where it causes conflicts (like Safari, where it disables every link it spins over and also shuts down my key commands), but it just keeps coming.
We’re stuck with it for a while—commitments were made—but they’re not supposed to ever put up anything that intrusive again.
Hey, I’m back home again, and crawling through my mail. While I’m simultaneously trying to recover from a long, long drive, skim through a mountain of mail, and get caught up on essential grading (there are days I’m glad I have three brains), read Circus of the Spineless #8. I will be back in the blogging business sometime soon.
My schedule is knocked all to heck today—there was some mess of an accident on I94 that cost me an extra hour and a half coming into the cities, and the cops in the U district sent me wondering all over the place in order to maximize congestion and protect some sporting event—so I’m not sure what I’ll be doing this evening now. I’m killing time in a coffeeshop, waiting for #1 Son to complete this interview thing, and then I’ll do something. I guess.
Oh, well. Here’s the weekly noise.
| Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner | Warren Zevon |
| Working for the Man | PJ Harvey |
| The View | Modest Mouse |
| Haiti | The Arcade Fire |
| Suvetar (Goddess Of Spring) | Gjallarhorn |
| Miss Kate Rusby | Battlefield Band |
| Rouge Sang | Saian Supa Crew |
| Forever Young | Chris Isaak |
| Wanna get next to you | Rose Royce |
| Sacred Darling | Gogol Bordello |
