Archive for April, 2005

Hitchhiker’s Guide

Go see it! (continued)

By popular (er… Teisha) request

Jenny and mine’s Livejournal (continued)

Ethics in the Zhuangzi

This morning on the bus (it was raining), I was re-reading a section from the book “Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi”. One passage in particular stuck with me, and I’d like to share it. It’s about desires and preferences, and Taoist/Buddhist reactions to them. (continued)

Photo Manipulation in Science

Nature has a kind of interesting story about the problems with people altering the figures they submit to be published.

(continued)

Track Me Down!

In my never-ending quest for more cool gadgets and stuff, I now have an easily-tracked Calendar. Exciting, eh? (continued)

Women in Science — Will we ever stop being sexist?

As all of you are hopefully aware of, we live in a rather sexist country. Of course, it has been getting better over the years, but it is still a huge deal, especially for those of us women in the sciences as some stats (and plain observation) can show. (continued)

Las Vegas: Love it or Loathe it?

Recently, I’ve been feeling the urge to visit Las Vegas again. What do you think of the city of lights? I have a few thoughts… (continued)

Excited and Delighted- the Wiki experiment

If you haven’t clicked the link in the upper right corner of the site linking to the ParaWiki, then I suggest you do so. It’s really quick the amazing system, and people (like you, dear reader) are already contributing and revising. I’ve always thought Wiki’s were a neat concept. (continued)

Gadget Blog

I’ve recently become kind of hooked on GizModo, the gadgets weblog. (continued)

Possible Site Downtime

For a long time, Paradoxdruid.com has been hosted by Domainmonger, but now that I’m actually planning out a budget, I’ll probably be switching to I successfully switched to DreamHost within the month. If budgeting excites you, read on! (continued)

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Free Rice

Okay, I’ll admit that it’s entirely possible that I am the last person to learn about this website*, but it’s really addictive.  It’s a game that tests your vocabulary.  Each time you get a word’s meaning correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Program.  So, give Free Rice a whirl.  I bet you’ll have fun and you’ll get to help make strides toward ending hunger.

 *I heard about it forever ago, I just never actually looked at it.


Security Cam Music Video

This band decided they didn’t have money to make a video, so they set up in public places in view of security cameras, then asked to get the footage from the people.

Pretty cool results, though a little creepy to think how much these cameras are around.

A news story about it is here


Some Frogs and Toads are just weird…

Thanks to one of my favorites blogs, Zooillogix, I recently got to see toads giving live birth from their back and frogs without lungs. (continued)


20% of Scientists use “Cognition Enhancement” Drugs

According to a recent anonymous poll in Nature magazine. Further commentary at WebMD. Crazy, huh?


Are you paying Attention?

Well?


Trunk Monkey!

Trunk Monkey. Yes this is exactly what you think it is (check out ep 4 theft retrieval system)


Scientists for a better PCR

Because you need to know who’s your daddy
The PCR Song


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