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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Some links: 7
Advice from Buster MacLeod on choosing and achieving goals. As you might expect, the tip most resonant with me is the low-tech one: 4. Talk to friends about your goals. You can write a thousand entries on your blog about … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Development
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Devil Guts
Justin Runyon et al. from Penn State demonstrate that dodder (Cuscuta pentagona), a parasitic orange-stemmed vine, uses chemical scents to find host plants. We see a lot of dodder in the Huntley Meadows Park wetland, and I think it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Sciences
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A new coffee connection
Via Birderblog.com, a new site dedicated to Coffee & Conservation. Recent posts include a precis of research by Armbrecht, Perfecto, and Silverman on ant communities in coffee plantations (with the interesting speculation that the caffeine in coffee-based mulch depresses ant … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Birds and Birding
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A bible, by subscription
Via Bookslut, The Chicago Manual of Style will launch an online edition for 30 bucks a year.
Posted in Words Words Words
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Don’t be snarky
There’s really such a thing as a boojum? No way!
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Blissfully ignorant
Until today, I had no idea that I had no idea how Taco Bell got its name. (Though I am more or less up-to-date on the ozone thing.)
Posted in Economics and Business
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Some links: 6
Via BIRDCHAT, Andy Mabbett has put forward a strawman proposal, in the form of a wiki, for microformat markup of scientific binomials and other taxon names.
Yes and no
Washington Theater Review interviews Washington Post critic Peter Marks: WTR: Do you feel like the popularity of movie reviewers such as Siskel & Ebert has made people view critics and criticism as more of a “thumbs up/thumbs down” concept? PM: … Continue reading
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Mr. Foster, your order is ready
Thirteen years after Falling Down, McDonald’s moves to offer breakfast around the clock.
Posted in Economics and Business
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We have met the enemy
Wyatt Mason takes his time getting to the point, but it’s a good one, well made: “Does it concern you,” the [reporter] asked, stuttering, “that the Beirut airport has been bombed, and do you see a risk of triggering a … Continue reading
Posted in Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Old Rag
Sometimes it’s good to find out what you really can’t do any more. The only other time that I’d hiked the Ridge Trail to Old Rag, that craggy outlier of the Blue Ridge in the eastern reaches of Shenandoah National … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field, Like Life
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I am shocked, shocked: 1
Surprise! That crummy $50 term paper for hire was a cut-and-paste job after all. Perhaps the only truly surprising thing about this story is that the Times didn’t spot the plagiarism the first time around. Well, deadlines, you know.
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Good on ya: 2
Not that I’m a very good judge of such things, but dang! Ian is a cute kid. Sadly, his preschool years have been frustrating for just about everyone. But, according to his mom, he seems to have turned the corner.
Posted in Yeah Yeah Yeah
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