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Critters

Giant squid Part 2

I knew the weblogging place to be on the squid story would be over at PZ Myers pad, and he points to TONMO of course. The feelings are mixed: on the one hand, the number of deep sea creatures killed by fishermen lately has become rather disturbing. On the other hand, where will we get a better view […]

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Diversity

Diversity isn’t important…and neither are standards or accessibility

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dori Smith pointed to a Kottke post where he took on several conferences and their lack of diversity. I find this topic lately to be exhausting, when one considers we’ve been laboring on this issue for several years. I’d be more sanguine about the lack of women speakers at conferences if most people […]

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Diversity

Know me well

The weather is warmer and with it a lightness of spirit. Today, in the email, I received links to two stories the senders knew I’d be interested in. The first was to the story about Frances Allen being the first woman to win the prestigious Turing Award: Allen spent her entire career at IBM, winning several of […]

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Stuff

Do it in your sleeve

Via Bad Astronomy the video Why don’t we do it in our sleeves. Sneeze, that is. I didn’t know a health video could be so entertaining.

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Burningbird

Cleaning House

I’m wanting to cut my online costs, including moving my account to a smaller one. Another cost saving move is to eliminate most of my domains. Most don’t have any page rank, but a few do. One I’ve offered to someone, but I have a couple of others that might make good weblogging homes for […]