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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 dating [...]

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Lovely. Work is totally borked.
Can’t work because the main system is run as a secure webpage, and somehow everyone’s logins and passwords have been lost. Some webpages work that are either within the firewall or company pages, but nothing “outside.”
In about an hour they’ll start going around re-enabling the native version that everyone still [...]

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Yeah, I like this one.

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I recently took another look for a Second Life IM client. There’s supposed to be something called SLim that’s official, but I bypassed it for something called AjaxLife, which I’d previously tried back when it was a light Web interface that just barely ran on my iPhone.  It runs well on a normal computer, though.
Now [...]

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The story on this image: David and I were doing something we rarely do - watching TV more or less “live”, and even more unusually, we were watching a network show and not bothering to zip through the commercials. This one came on for a product called Botox Cosmetic — with the tagline “it’s all [...]

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