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Something you should know 27 Aug 2013 | 10:45 am
… about mass surveillance. All of this, I have to say, I find completely unsurprising. But is it at all even unexpected you can get an intuitive sense of these things when this is, in fact, what the ...
A little something from the late nineteenth century 26 Aug 2013 | 10:26 am
So I tore a calf muscle a few months back. This isn’t really about that. Or it sort of is. Thing about calf muscle tears: that’s a big muscle. Tear it, it hurts. Rehab takes a while. You find yourse...
Fossil nostalgia 5 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
Seems someone found a baleen whale skull in the Miocene cliffs near the mouth of the Potomac. Takes me back. I spent a day on those cliffs more than a decade back now, back when I was living in the D...
Noted 2 Aug 2013 | 06:05 am
Phil Plait’s got a nice thing on today’s Google doodle, re Maria Mitchell. I’ve been kinda hip deep in the mid-19th century for other reasons the past few weeks, and I do know a bit of the history of...
Hooey 15 Jul 2013 | 05:26 am
Been busy. Injured, too, tho’ we won’t get into that. Working on it, anyway. Nothing permanent, I’m assured. In other news, PZ had a thing on a Salon thing I’m not sure I’m even gonna deign to link t...
To coin a phrase 27 Jun 2013 | 02:36 am
… It ain’t just the gods; it’s the worship. I want to add to that (oh wait, I did that, too, actually), but I dunno quite where to begin. Big thing to unpack… It is a thing I’ve been thinking a whil...
Ten excellent questions 25 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
David Sirota asks ten excellent questions. I’d be repeating his point, but still, it is pretty stark, how this thing is spinning. There’s crimes and crimes, apparently. Gross violations of constituti...
Guest post at Butterflies and Wheels 22 Jun 2013 | 09:07 pm
Ophelia B kindly front-paged a thing from comments from me and Eamon… It’s a bit… scattered. Comment, y’know, written in a bit of a stream, will be my excuse. But I’d still call myself happy enough w...
Whatever annoyed you, let's see if I can work out just what that was 20 Jun 2013 | 01:13 am
… so I can do it some more. So I had a DDOS thing here a few days ago. Looks like it was pretty low-tech, with a pretty small botnet behind it, but effective enough to max out the hosting account’s b...
Hero 30 May 2013 | 06:28 pm
Plain and simple, that’s what Dr. Henry Morgentaler was. Not only has the state no business in the bedrooms of the nation, but coathangers have far less business, places they were being put before th...
