Tête-à-Tête-Tête

It turns out that the short-term cooling reported last year in the oceans was error from bad equipment.
Carl Zimmer discusses vegetation farts, how the initial paper that reported excess CH4 was reported widely in the popular news, how the follow-up experiment, which failed to confirm the original result, was not reported in the popular news, [...]

…but they couldn’t have done it on their own. They needed a compliant press to pass on their propaganda as news and cheer them on.
That’s from Chapter 1 of the internet broadcast, and a real gem. I’ve only watched part, and so far much more impressed with Chapter 2 than anything besides that [...]

Dave has the write-up. Sorry for the late-coming link.

Since moving to Wordpress, t-t-t has accumulated 601 comments, and the Askimet plugin has screened out 11,766 attempts to spam the comments. That’s a 20:1 ratio on the spam side. We need a national “Do not spam” registry.

That is how much time it took Seung-Hui Cho to fire off 170 rounds and kill 30 people.
That means one shot fired every 3 seconds.
POW! 
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POW!
I have a feeling that I am going to hear at least one gun control advocate say tonight that 170 rounds in 9 minutes is evidence enough that machine gun pistols [...]

Here is the music of our solar system.
All you need are some voices in your head and you are set to go.

Kryptonite occurs naturally.
I’ve been whistling an unusual earbug the last few days. “Me, the Peaceful Heart” - apparently recorded by one LuLu, but I’ve never heard her sing it. It has been years since I have heard the only version I know, one found on a vinyl record my daddy owned. The only [...]

Didn’t you learn anything from the backlash from the RNC ad against Harold Ford?

(here, until it scrolls on down the page.)
I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean… American voters are bimbos? Daisy Duke has a crush on Barak Obama? Or what?
… But, what makes them think that it won’t open them up [...]

This weekend: Sophmore kid went to Junior prom (date was a Junior), I had accidental meeting with some (very) old friends downtown, church of course, and a visit to the Four Bridges Arts Festival, which was very nice. I’m anything but an art snob, but I can say I was very impressed by [...]

Yikes.