BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to a note from a friend, I found out that in the last week or so, I’ve lost several hundred links and several hundred points in the link race at Technorati. I guess I had my 15 minutes of, well, I couldn’t call it fame. What could we call […]
I wanted to thank Daniel Mosquin for his kind words about my photographs, and also take this opportunity to point to his Botany Photo of the Day site. It’s really a terrific site to explore. In fact, I was exploring it, via Tim Bray when I had a note from Daniel, asking if I minded if he linked my […]
I’m being inundated with Google and other searches looking for information on giant squid or architeuthis dux, and people coming to my previous entries (such as this). This is such an amazing story, and lots of people are hopping up and down today. To keep up with the reports, check in with the SquidBlog and the other SquidBlog. One of […]
There is more to the South than Mardi Gras, Blues, Cajun cooking, and white guys with confederate flags in the back of their trucks. Photos from Cairo, Illinois. Tenth Street Eighth Street Cairo had two strongly distinctive faces. On the one hand, there’s been an attempt to restore much of the history of the town, […]
If this checks out, the giant squid, Architeuthis Dux has been captured on film by a Japanese research team. Marine biologists have been trying to film a live, adult giant squid for decades. This is a major breakthrough, especially as they have a sample from the creature filmed, for DNA verification. The Washington Post article has a single frame […]