ginny on November 27th, 2008

And this is a test of the WordPress app for iPhone. After setting up the improved Light Saber app, which allows custom characters and visialisations. I decided I was a Lemurian named Gi-Ginn 3-Ak’bal.

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ginny on November 27th, 2008

I didn’t know about this, but have to pass it along to David: Via WordPress 2.6 Easter Egg: Edit a post. Scroll down to the revisions section of the page and click the latest revision. On the next page, scroll down again and select the same revision for comparison. The Matrix has you..

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ginny on November 26th, 2008

Tom the Dancing Bug has a great cartoon behind Salon’s adwall, well worth clicking through to see after waiting for the ad to load. Language geeks will enjoy the Mayan in-jokes and economics geeks will enjoy the pretty colors of teh secksy Mayans and their silly claims that their civilization and its blood-sacrifice based economy [...]

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ginny on November 26th, 2008

A sharp-eyed clerk at a Salt Lake golf course pro shop noticed a man wearing underwear on his head and wielding a big knife. After a struggle, the brief-or-boxer wearing thief fled. Exciting golf-cart chase and capture ensued, with golfers no doubt brandishing 9-irons and mashie niblicks or whatever. Prosecutors charge alleged robber who wore [...]

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ginny on November 26th, 2008

This is a test of the Non-urgency Moblogization System. No cats have been mobilized, there is no cause for alarm. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Test Cattern By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 26 Nov ’08, 8.44pm CST PST UPDATE: Posting moblogged photos via Flickr works, WordPress is no longer stripping the HTML brackets! [...]

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ginny on November 25th, 2008

Being part of the family here in Chicagoland (actually, Northwest Burblcavia) means that I get to partake of some seasonal delights and occasionally take a stab at cooking them. Take latkes. Please! Take another! I like them a lot. But they can be really greasy and high in calories. A few years back, I had [...]

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ginny on November 25th, 2008

My life doesn’t really run to a narrative. There’s the basic “get up, go to work, come home, eat something, do something, go to bed” framework, but there’s no grand sweeping Story of my Life. It’s just a collection of random moments. That being said, some days are a little out of the ordinary in [...]

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ginny on November 24th, 2008

I don’t usually go for interblog communications or linkery, much, but every now and then I notice something interesting shaping up via my Google Reader feed. First I noticed that the official blog of the Discovery Institute (ironically named “Evolution News & Views”;) had an item where they seemed to be following evolutionary biologist PZ [...]

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ginny on November 24th, 2008

While commenting at a well-known science blog, I was casting around for some background on the science of dating things by counting tree rings – AKA dendrochronology. Yes, the Intelligent Design crowd also attempts to refute any scientific discipline that threatens the Genesis story. And they have a website full of talking points: Tree ring [...]

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ginny on November 24th, 2008

Oh boy! I hardly ever participate in memes, but this one I’ll take a stab at. 1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s and father’s middle names): Elizabeth Carver 2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad): Charles Clayton 3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters [...]

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