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Critters Political

You need to thin the forests to find the trees

Japanese whale researchers recently discovered a new species of baleen whale, which they have named Balaenoptera omurai. It’s not unusual to discover new species of animals, but not ones this large – about 12 meters long. Big as a bus, in other words. This is going to impact on whale hunting, as it should. What may have been a larger population […]

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Just Shelley

Wanna chocolate?

Many thanks for the kind words about my birthday. My roommate took me out for an Italian dinner that would violate every aspect of an Atkins diet. We had bruschetta for an appetizer, home made garlic breadsticks with the dinner, which happened to be chicken, artichoke, sun dried tomato, and shitake mushroom sauteed in garlic […]

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RDF

PostCon – generating RDF/XML files

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that the Burningbird Network sites are getting back into the groove, time to bring this weblog back online. I’ve incorporated bits and pieces of the PostCon throughout this system. However, none of the implementations are a blinding flash or a deafening roar. And I’m not picking a fight with […]