It's Wednesday, the middle of the week. Hump Day, as a lot of folks call it ( Read more... )

Just got home from the computer shoppe I mentioned in an earlier post, having taken in the laptop for diagnosis (and possibly repair). So this LJ post is being written in retrospective, as will be all of the other LJ posts from this point on until I have a functional, wireless capable computer once more ( Read more... )

Want to make a 3D model of a fossil using photos? Heinrich Mallison and Oliver Wings tell you how.

Photogrammetry in Paleontology - A Practical Guide

High tech paleo offers new insights into how infant mammoths Lyuba and Khroma lived and died.

Baby Mammoths Yield Hi-Res Details for Palaeontologists

Having all kinds of trouble getting onto LiveJournal and some of the other websites that I tend to frequent. In terms of LJ, I don't know whether it's a problem with LJ or whether this has something to do with the other stuff going on with me ( Read more... )

Have been catching up with a bit of the news, and came across the story that Amazon announced that it sells more e-books than printed books. Andrew Irvine, who teaches at the University of British Columbia, responded to this about why books will survive.

The Book Will SurviveIrvine actually has come up with some excellent, extremely compelling ( Read more... )

A couple of newspaper articles today (in actual papers, people, not on-line other than the links here for you to check out!) have me thinking.

Well, I know what I want to do for my next vacation. Okay, not the next one, since that's going to take me to the Uluguru Mountains, one of the most picturesque locations in the Expedition Africa adventure ( Read more... )