While most of us were agog about the recent filming of the giant squid, in Australia on Monday comes announcements of many marine discoveries in the last year. Among them are shrimp similar to ones extinct 50 million years ago, a new beaked squid, and giant lobsters. I already mentioned my favorite, the Yeti crab. It’s unfortunate that […]
Month: December 2006
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Best of astronomy
What a wonderful post: Bad Astronomy comes out with his Top Ten Astronomy images of 2006, complete with stories. I had completely missed the “Painting the Eclipse” photo, and am so glad Phil Plait has not. Wonderful. We have robots on Mars! Humans are so smart.
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A little humility, a little quiet
Don at Hands in the Dirt writes: For Christians, I think that the last thing called for in this Christmas season is phony magic, the wishful making upright of all that is turned over, either personal or in the larger world. Or the cloying fake holiday spirit of Coke ads (you know that the polar bears […]
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Ooo, Ouch!
M David Peterson points out a comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis over at the Ongoing post on the JSON/XML thing: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis (Dec 21 2006, at 18:52) Anders: It’s a stretch to call the man who designed both RSS 2.0 and OPML an “XML partisan.” Toro! Toro! Olé!
I have long been brought up to a belief that tolerance is a virtue, not a vice or a vise. Evidently, not all people have this same belief. The irony of the situation is, of course, that if I truly believe in tolerance, then I must also be tolerant of the intolerant. I must admit […]