Blogging from MIX08!

I will be blogging from MIX08 in Las Vegas all next week. This is my first MIX. Really looking forward to it!

Pharyngula

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
A truly delightful find! I spent this entire evening reading about the hilarious saga of PZ and Expelled (read the responses! esp. #90 :) 
Tonight I added pharyngula to my blogroll (in place of the disappointing “The Future and You” which, along with it’s now-weekly podcast, has become very unremarkable).

Goodby meebo. Enter Digsby.

Having long been a meebo fanboy, this is not without some twangs of guilt. I’ve found a better multiprotocol IM client.  Meebo was a huge improvement over the multiple-client alternative.

Now in private beta is my new fav, Digsby.  It’s much more powerful and configurable than meebo. One major annoyance with meebo: it did not have […]

“United” States of America

The root of most disunity in the US, I believe, is firmly grounded in the data shown by this map. Every time I come across this, it never ceases to amaze and amuse. It presents many avenues of analysis, but any careful analysis must first recognize the shortcomings of the data visualization. A couple […]