Today’s magic shot – dappled tree shadows during a solar eclipse. The tiny spaces between the leaves of a tree create a multiplicity of camera obscura images on the ground. This photos was taken by Nils van der Burg in… Read More ›
Science
Sea-foam
This picture has generated some talkback radio discussion today: Image Source: Daily Telegraph (photo by Bill Counsell) The picture was taken at Yamba. The sea foam extends 50m across the beach and into the sea from the Surf Lifesavers club… Read More ›
Now there’s only love in the dark
“. . . and on the night of December 11th, the moon was long into the night as though all bloody, and after, it was darkened. Also, on the night of December 16th, the heavens were seen to be as… Read More ›
Weekend Wibble: Fragments of IM
[following a conversation about soccer teams, in which it was established that Arsenal is the only team for which is it unacceptable to barrack] lauredhel: I watch other TV crap lauredhel: (though rather more deprecated TVcrap than sports, interestingly) tigtog:… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Dagmar Berne
[image from National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame] As a teenager, Dagmar Berne, of Sydney, was sent by her widowed mother for a “good education” in a private school, Springfield Ladies’ College. The curriculum included such traditional “ladies’ accomplishments” as… Read More ›
Passive backlash.
Well, this “Girls Love Pink Cos They Pick Fruit, Fuck, and Have Babies!” study would be a prime example of Why We Need Blogs. I see a lot of whining about bloggers being mere parasites on the underbelly of the… Read More ›
PinkSquee EvPsych Asshattery du jour
[image yoinked from jZepp] Would someone just erase gender-evpsychs from the planet, please? This Beeb-reported British “study” published in Current Biology has declared that women really do prefer pink – it’s in their genes. Apparently by including Chinese volunteers as… Read More ›
Duh du jour: A cautionary tale.
[scene: a very quiet room.] Me: [thinks] Gosh, that’s a lot of drive noise. And it’s constant, not fluctuating. Whatever could be hammering the hard drive? * checks Activity Monitor, nothing unusual Me: [thinks] Is it the new external drive?… Read More ›
Speaking Truth
Three pieces of art for you. Cancer Sampler Twisty has an amazing piece of embroidery art up on her blog. For those who don’t know her, Twisty was last year recovering from a debilitating regime of breast cancer treatment when… Read More ›
Butbutbutbut the US is the world, isn’t it?
This is the gist of a recent formulaic dummy spit from global warming skeptic Michael Duffy, arguing that a minor shift in US figures after re-analysis somehow implies something crucial about global changes which were measured differently. Penguin Unearthed dissects… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 