Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Happy 300th birthday Linnaeus

From Wired:

"Biological classification may seem like an esoteric problem better left to librarians than field researchers"

Hey, I have training in both areas - pick me! Pick me!

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

It is a cruel irony

Watch this video (it's also up on YouTube if you don't want to download it) about copyright and fair use. It's brilliant, funny, and sticks it to Disney (who richly deserves it for getting copyright-paranoid in the first place).

Well, that takes some of the sting out of the Sabres' loss.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Ah, that clean mountain air


I visited the Adirondacks for hangouts with friends this past weekend, and had a great time. Not least because the weather was near perfect, and I got to snap some purty pictures like the one shown above (that one was taken just west of Saranac Lake).

Incidentally, I've posted this picture not just because it came out rather nice, but because I also wanted to inform you that I've set up a Flickr account, which I've begun to mess around with. I still have the Picasa Web Albums going (see links area to the right), but it's so much easier to link to photos hosted on Flickr. There are good things about Picasa too, though. Hmm, Flickr is run by Yahoo, while Picasa is a Google product. Yahoo vs. Google.

They will fight eternally.