Another exciting grab bag of weird news. This time with pirates!

Mammals

Vampire bats create science vs. cattle blood feud: personally, I’m on the bat’s side. For more information about our fuzzy flying friends, visit Flying Fur, the best bat-blog around.
Platypus breeds poetry in motion: Millsom is very cute. And "platypusary" is a great word.
Platypus [...]

The Weekly Standards has returned, with a feature article on the transformation of AT&T’s website from markup mess to standards compliance. Since that’s the site I work on, I feel pretty good about it all. This project is definitely a high point for me: after nearly 10 years of working on the site, it feels [...]

Comic books rarely make me cry. This one did bring a few bittersweet tears to my jaded eyes. And it did it by being smart, by sticking with strong characterizations, and by using genuine emotion. It’s one of those comics that does in a few pages what other comics never do.

The critics of the old [...]

Sort of a potpourri of various mammal, dinosaur and pet stories this week.

Pets

Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting : If I could pet my dogs and cats all day, I think I would.
Social Petworking: Dog Walks Get Wired: Finally, my dogs can get IP addresses. And if a scriptkiddie tries a denial of service attack, they’ll just get [...]

Miracle Monday is here!

From Elliot S! Maggin’s novel, Miracle Monday:
Shortly before four in the afternoon on the third Monday in the month of May, the people of the city of Metropolis learned the meaning of joy. They had no explanation for this feeling, and there were gaps in their knowledge of what had gone [...]

Ah, another week of weird stuff. This week’s an all science edition!

New Dinosaur Documents Diet Shift from Meat to Veggies: all hail the therizinosaurs! The articles says they are to plants what velociraptors are to Speilberg actors.
New Postage Stamps Honor Four Scientists: Good to see scientists get some recognition. How long has Elvis had [...]

Finally got to see the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie last night, and I was not impressed. It’s as if they couldn’t decide what kind of movie to make, so they attempted to make them all. And it fails the most basic of tests: it just isn’t very funny.

Problem 1: The Script

Everything seems so [...]

Since I’ve chronicled my adventures in getting green chile in New Jersey previously, I figured I’d give a decent recipe for good old green chile stew.

Green Chile Stew
Ingredients

1 pound - Chicken, Pork, Beef, cubed or cut into small pieces
1 quart - Chicken/Vegetable/Beef broth, depending on the meat you choose (the vegetable broth works in all [...]