Month: December 2006
Sobrante Ridge Regional Botanic Preserve, on the site of a former cattle ranch, occupies a space more or less surrounded by the suburban East Bay community of El…
Just in time for the year of the pig, Chinese scientists claim to have genetically modified pigs using DNA from fluorescent jellyfish. “The scientists from Taiwan University’s say…
I’ve completed a brief survey of Bay Area plant communities over at Frisco Vista. The Bay Area topic suits me because I’ve accumulated a bunch of photos from…
I don’t have much to say about this, except it’s, well, cool.
Coming back from Belgium my flight to Heathrow was cancelled because of freezing killer fog. By hiking to the Bruges train station at 3:00 am, I was able…
I’ve added a bunch more photos to my flickr set of pictures of Bruges in December. I noticed that Photoshop’s “save for web” plug-in stupidly strips out the…
Okay, here’s the deal. I conned the country into electing me, but I’m a crook, and the feds have got the goods and are looking to lock me…
Zugzwang is among several excellent words that come to us from the game of chess. Others … oh hell, I hadn’t intended to, but I might as well…
I posted before about Christmas songs that don’t mention Christmas. For balance, here’s a song that mentions Christmas quite a lot — an instant Christmas classic from Eric…
Generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of flash animations. This one isn’t bad, though.
That’s the distinction John Battelle makes in an interesting piece. The “pillars” of PGM, he says, are Ownership or control of Intellectual Property by the corporation. Ownership or…
I should finish up the press check I’m on tomorrow and have Thursday free, or maybe I’ll just proof the cover on Thursday morning. God, I hope so….
Morning Reflections This photo is part of a set from my trip to Bruges. Since I’m here on business I’ve only had a couple of hours to walk…
In D-Lib magazine David Bearman provides an abstract of the argument Jean-Noël Jeanneney (President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France) presents in his Google and the Myth of…
image via random good stuff Bao xishun, at seven feet nine inches, is said to be the world’s tallest man. But that’s not the item. The item is…
I have a feeling I’m not going to get a lot of sympathy with this, but I have to be in Bruges in Belgium next week — far…
The Martyrdom of Nicholas, by Francisco de Goya and Thomas Christensen Top Ten Seasonal Songs That Don’t Mention Christmas As a public service to those who will be…
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Speaking of SEO, here is a list of the SEO-related sites that have feeds I subscribe to. (I’m just an amateur who got into this when my website…
It’s beginning to seem that way. As soon as anyone says anyone negative about search engine optimizing, the SEO community (or, to be fair, one faction of it)…
In an otherwise rather dry article by Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief, in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (the topic is the administration’s Iraq “policy”), one encounters this astonishing…