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  • Dear Neighborhood Gangster…

    Although I have no idea who you are, I get the feeling you’re trying to tell me something. I’m not sure what, but I can’t help but think that shooting my house with a shotgun was some sort of message. I’m sorry if you’ve left me other messages, like peeing on my house to mark…

  • A Message for Barack Obama from Ideonexus

    I’m enjoying the Message to Obama Flickr Pool (HT TGAW). I added this photo: Support Science More about the pool.

  • Asimov Quote Reflects Learning as an Adventure

    Been reading a lot of Isaac Asimov short stories as the only reading I can fit into my schedule, and found this passage in the book Earth is Room Enough from the short story The Dead Past: When science was young and the intricacies of all or most of the known was within the grasp…

  • The Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum

    I happened to make it on opening day to this exhibit. TGAW, my wonderful adventuring partner, came along with me, pointing out all the most interesting parts of the displays I was too busy taking photos of to notice. I’d been eagerly awaiting the exhibit’s opening since I caught the following enticing glimpse of it…

  • The Mosaic Meme

    Following in the footsteps of bloggers TGAW and Chriggy. a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page of results, pick an image. c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker. The Questions: 1. What is your first…

  • 10 Things in My Yard

    Following TGAW’s Thread responding to the No Child Left Inside Coalition’s claim that “young people could identify 1000 corporate logos but fewer than 10 plants or animals native to their backyards,” I decided to take a shot at naming ten things in my yard. FAIL. If I counted the fruit trees, the mimosa tree, and…

  • Nancy Pelosi Finds Environmentalism in the Bible

    Dittoheads, having been thoroughly thrashed on every rational, scientific, and practical front in their war on the environment, are now turning to theology, in a last ditch effort to keep people from embracing the principles of conservation and sustainability. Most recently, they are attacking Nancy Pelosi for repeatedly stating that the principles of environmentalism are…

  • An Endangered Cephalopod

    Can you spot the rare and magnificent endangered species in the photo below? Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Photo by TGAW The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is not officially on the endangered species list; however, this extremely rare and biologically unique cephalopod inhabits a very small area in the coniferous Olympic rainforests west of Seattle, an…

  • Take a Child Outside Week 2007

    9.24 In honor of Take a Child Outside Week: Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. – E. O. Wilson The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ e.e. cummings God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin…