pay no attention . . .

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

A correspondent asks:

Anyone else starting to wonder if the IAO isn’t a sacrificial Day-Glo “rabbit” intended to draw eyes away from the real danger buried somewhere in, say, the Department of Agriculture?

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from YAWL

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

Vicki Rosenzweig, one of those who first got me thinking about starting a weblog, relays a couple of science treats:

Fresh evidence of ‘eclipse wind’.

Chaotic orbits of shepherd moons. (The rotation of Hyperion was already known to be chaotic, but Pandora and Prometheus are the first bodies seen to have chaotic revolution.)

The Sahara is shrinking.

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funny you should say that

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

James Grimmelmann opines:

So if they catch the [Potomac] sniper – and we all hope that “if” is really a “when” – I would find it harder to make the claim that he should live than to make such a claim on behalf of an African-American teen convicted by an all-white jury on the testimony of unreliable police informant for a convenience-store robbery gone wrong. Much harder.

Written on October 22.

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does Sunnydale make sense?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

Vampire Population Ecology (pdf).

2006: New improved link.

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helping hooves

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 03 by Anton

Blind? Can’t stand dogs? Get a mini horse. (Found at B3TA, to which in turn I was referred by Bruce Baugh.)

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nine out of eight

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 03 by Anton

About a year and a half ago, Russell Whitaker took me out for some shooting sport, and afterward told everybody that I had made eight out of eight fairly tough shots with his new rifle and that he looked forward to further improvement. Someone naturally asked, what, next time he’ll hit nine out of eight? I naturally explained that I was looking around for MIRV bullets. Ha ha. Now James Rummel reports on multi-bullet cartridges. Learn something new every day!

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QotD

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 03 by Anton

Dr Frank:

Look, if you can’t hate slavery, torture and genocide, what are you allowed to hate these days?

Go read it.

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