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Critters Environment

Japanese whaling duplicity

The Japanese have decided to double the country’s kill of whales for scientific research. In addition to hunting minke whales, the country is also going to be collecting specimens of other, endangered whales for its researches. In response to Japan’s extensive ‘research’, New Zealand’s Conservation Manager, Chris Carter, said: Where is the science from 18 years of scientific whaling? It doesn’t […]

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Critters History Photography

Pink and shadows

Thursday I thought I would try the Castor Shut-Ins, see if the overcast days would help with the photographs. The challenge with taking photos in Missouri is the unusual coloration of much of the environment here–all that pink because of the iron deposits in the state. Overcast and cooler but still humid at the Shut-Ins. […]

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Weather Weblogging

Weather junkies rejoice

I’ve been a subscriber to the Weather Underground for a few years now. For the cost of 5.00 a year, you can access all the functionality at the site, without ads and including radar pictures during peak times. The weather forecasting is superior to Weather channel’s site, and the maps and graphics much cleaner and […]

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Photography

Cyber Moon

Mother Earth, what can I say? You have a great looking kid.

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Writing

The words we use

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Robert Scoble changes his opinion about the China/MSN Spaces issue, and decides since his wife, son, best friend, Dan Gillmor, Rebecca MacKinnon, and several Chinese webloggers say he’s wrong, he must be wrong. I don’t know why this irritated me so much, but it has. Perhaps it’s the idea that opinions have a critical […]