Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jan 31st, 2008
Recently British newspapers have lamented the passing of Jeremy Beadle. Jeremy who? I had no idea. It seems he was a practical joker in the Candid Camera school. The Times has an article today on his Top 10 Wind-ups with links to YouTube videos. The white van stunt was the best, but on the whole [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 30th, 2008
Today Slashdot has a review of Windows Vista Annoyances published by O’Reilly Media. I happened to pick it up in Foyle’s bookshop last Saturday.
I flicked through it and I thought
You must be joking
There’s a lot not to like about Vista, but 641 pages? As a Victorian child is said to have opined about a book [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 24th, 2008
No sooner had I written about the universe giving us the flagellum than Craig Venter, given to us by the universe, has announced that artificial life — or at least a first synthetic genome — is almost here. Perhaps we’ll need to add a branch back to the family tree of life! Or start [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 23rd, 2008
The tree of life has been reorganized. That is the good news. The bad news is that you and I are now opisthokonts. Actually, we were all along. It sounds worse than it is.
You can see your pedigree in a nice tree here, but this tree now needs to be simplified a little.
It’s an [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 18th, 2008
Some friends of mine once flew home to New Zealand from America on a flight that skipped Christmas day.
Having had several of my MBA assignments due on January 10th I seem to have spent every day but Christmas day, for quite a while, slaving over a hot computer. I slept like a log on the [...]
Wombat Diet
Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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