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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Don’t drink and skate - especially if you’re a moose
Poor moosey…Drunken Swedish moose drowns after fermented apple binge ยป Netscape.com
A moose that became inebriated after binging on fermented fallen apples in northern Sweden drowned when it fell through the ice of a frozen inlet, a Swedish tabloid has reported. “The moose appears to have eaten too many fermented apples and become confused out […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
APA Style Guides - such fun!
(More clearing of links.) I spent some time writing in the sciences and APA (American Psychological Association) is a frequently asked for standard. I’m not a big fan of it personally, but here are some style guides and help on implementing it if the need ever arises:
APA Style Guide - M. Plonsky, Ph.D.
APA Style Essentials
Write […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
It’s not only men who “naturally” stray
This is an oldie from 1999, but I’m clearing my many many links, and it’s an interesting piece of research. So it’s not only men who “naturally” stray in the cause for better genes:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Women’s choice of men goes in cycles
Women are attracted to more masculine-looking men at the […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
One does not simply WALK into Mordor
Ah, more geekiness… as if I don’t have a desk/office/house to clean, work to do, Warcrafting to play etc etc…
This is quite old, I gather, but I only saw it today. You do need to have read/seen/give two figs about the Lord of Rings to appreciate its funniness though. Windows and LOTR, together at last:
And […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Bears, Bunnies, Oh My!
Studio Daily has links to a couple of wonderful Flash animations in an interview with Darren Price from Nexus Productions (you have to scroll down the article to get the video links - sorry won’t let me legally embed!). First there is Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka which is a beautifully animated and quite […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Burning Crusade and the Battleground of Body Shapes
Amazing that I’m doing any blog posts at all, the long anticipated expansion to World of Warcraft , The Burning Crusade, turned up in my mail this week. The Collector’s Edition no less. It sold out ages ago but then Blizzard, at the last moment, released a number of them through their online store. The […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
A Testament to Lego
More biblical jollity, Brendan Powell Smith put out a series of scenes from the Old and New Testaments rendered in lovable Lego. These small hard cover books have made their way into many a Christmas stocking since they were released, but they are also available freely from the creator’s website: The Brick Testament. They are […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
According to the ads at YouTube, you can now “record from your webcam directly to YouTube! No upload needed!”. Yay! That’s all we need, YouTube making it even easier for people to upload their crappy webcam videos.
This, on the other hand, is a quality video. Don’t know what reminded me of it. The title […]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Revisiting Latin
I’m doing a week of Latin summer school this week and it’s great fun. I’m totally rusty and can barely string the most basic sentence together, but it’s really wonderful how (some) things are coming back. The class is very relaxed so I’m just listening and learning, peeping up now and then when I actually […]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
More children
This story is a lot nicer, though the child is considerably younger. A friend’s young nephew went to see Walking with the Dinosaurs on the weekend. He was eating onion rings, but didn’t finish them. When asked why not, he said he was keeping them to feed the dinosaurs. Later he got upset when the […]
