BurningbirdThis is wrong on so many levels: Fox is going to be doing a remake of the classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. It’s scheduled to hit theaters, May, 2008. There are some films that were made once, made right, and should be left alone. One such is, To Kill a Mockingbird. Among others are One […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.