LiveJournal and Dreamwidth are so desolate, I think I have seen more than one person refer to them as ghost towns. Even though I have contributed to this by having so little to say for so long, and not saying what there was of it here, I'm not happy about this. The two of them are to my mind the best-structured of any sites I have tried which might ( Read more... )

It appears the word 'cis' is now verboten at Pam's House Blend, because it offends at least one white cis gay manThat constitutes the final straw for me so far as that site is concerned, as I have no patience for a discussion in which the official line is that trans and cis people ought not be regarded as on equal neutral footing because doing so ( Read more... )

For a while now folks at ScienceBlogs and elsewhere have been putting up posts about basic concepts in science. Also for a while now, John S. Wilkins|Evolving Thoughts has been compiling an index of these posts.

It can be found here: Basic Concepts in Science: A listI look forward to exploring these and present this to anyone who might wish to do ( Read more... )

    *falls over*

*laughs some more*

Oh, I am sorry I missed it.

Edit: This was well said and worth saying.

    No words last night. Attempts at necessary study today not very successful. I just finished talking for a couple of hours with a woman from my class with whom I am performing a role playing exercise in class on Monday.

Don't you wish you could be me?

For those of you dying of the wondering, here is a large part of what I read on-line. I ( Read more... )

    Lots of instrumentation information here as probes study Mars during one of its famous dust storms. The rovers, however, are in an endurance race. Will battery power be sufficient for them to continue operating until the sky clears?

I did not know the HiRISE team has a blog until I read that article. Now I am wondering how many other ( Read more... )

    Not long ago I discovered Alastair Reynolds' latest novel, The Prefect is out already.  More books to save up for. Anyway, it turns out he has a blog and his own domain name now, as I found poking around for what he is up to next.

Religious belief in Australia is falling, sadly more from apathy than anything else, I think. Our local media seemed not so excited about it but PZ Myers is positively emerald. ^_^

Steinn Sigurðsson|Dynamics of Cats has been to a conference and oh how I envy him. I mean, he has to endure terrible hardships, but just look at the conference ( Read more... )

Yes, that seems the appropriate reaction.

Incidentally, this is the man recently replaced as Mufti of Australia.

Also incidentally, apparently this is why posts have been coming from the old blogspot rather than Shakesville.

    A thought, earlier in the reading than the writing. I have noticed a very strong tendency for readers to only comment on a single aspect of a blog post. Often, indeed, people will remark on the same thing rather than each picking a different topic to follow. I could not say if this is an artefact of following after the first to comment or of a ( Read more... )