Well, traffic was down a bit yesterday, although the dedicated thread is going strong. I suspect that some of the readers here were distracted by some silly little game that was released yesterday, and the only way to get them back is to dangle the eye candy in front of them. Now we’re all caught up on everything.
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Episode LXXXIV: Calling all the little zerglings back
I am pleased to report that the godless heathens of Seattle, including the likes of Ophelia Benson (who, I learned, was once bitten by a gorilla, and thereby acquired the superpowers of strength, ferocity, and calm) and Dana Hunter , know how to close out a bar. Once again, a horde of cheerful chatty atheists had to be shooed out at closing time. Too many to list showed up, but several of the previously less voluble have agreed to comment more
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Late night in Seattle
It’s been a while. I hope you haven’t forgotten
It’s been a while. I hope you haven’t forgotten.
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Do you remember how to crash a poll?
It’s been a while.
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Do you remember how to crash a poll?
This is a rather horrifying article about young girls reading Harry Potter one moment, and then dragged off to get their clitorises chopped off . It’s got these nasty little details like, if you pay extra, you can get the butcher to use a clean knife
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Hey, UK! How do you reconcile these two facts?
In a great victory for history, a very rare 19th century MP3 has been recovered which documents a moment in Charles Darwin’s domestic life. It seems that there was a bit of unreported conflict between them… Read the comments on this post…
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Mmmm…boiled beef and cabbage…
One of the giant panels I was on at Convergence is now a podcast at the Secular Buddhist . It’s got me, Bug Girl, Jennifer Ouellette, Lyra Lynx, Maria Walters, Jen Mana, Ted Meissner, Debbie Goddard, Carrie Iwan, and Dave Walbridge, and I’m already worn out just listing them. It was also very well attended: SF conventions are hotbeds of godlessness
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We were all losing our religion
Well, this was a weird article in Nature that made me think, at least: A world without mosquitoes . I was surprised to learn that there are actually ecologists/entomologists who believe the world would be a better place if we could simply exterminate entire genera of winged pests — that mosquitoes fill a readily replaceable niche, that they make minimal positive contributions to ecosystems, and we’d gain immeasurably from removing animals responsible for so much human suffering. The one thing they also agree on, though, is that there is no way to do it
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A war against mosquitoes?
Alayna Wyland is 7 months old, and she is suffering . The area started swelling, and the fast-growing mass of blood vessels, known as a hemangioma, eventually caused her eye to swell shut and pushed the eyeball down and outward and started eroding the eye socket bone around the eye. There are pictures at the link.