Crazy But Able

On neologisms

Ann Althouse roasts Eric Alterman on weblog censorship (Go Ann!)

Predestination
(A deft argument! But I still don’t buy it.)

I was just reading my algae textbook and learned that euglenoids can be found in the rectums of tadpoles. I’ll never look at tadpole rectums the same way again.

I want one of these

I used to be hardcore into BBSes; when I read this
I immediately started mentally cross-referencing some old BBS usernames with user categories. (See also: Flame Warriors)

“At what point do we just abandon any pretense of making peace with these gangsters? When will it be time to declare war on them, to engage in file-sharing not because we love music, but because we hate the record companies?”

In the comments to my post about backup strategies, Steve Gigl asked what virtual desktop software I use, and would I recommend it.
And the answer is VirtuaWin. And yes, I’d recommend it. It’s currently up to version 3.0, although I’m using version 2.11.
It was relatively painless to install, although it took an […]

The Truth About Global Climate Change (Heh.)

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been playing around with photomicroscopy lately. Aside from the photography, I tried taking a few videos with my camera as photographs don’t do any justice to some things. You can see them here and here. Yeah, I know the second one isn’t filmed very good, but it […]