There's huge excitement out there on Flickr’s announcement today that it meshes with Yahoo maps to enable geotagging of photos. In other words, you can show the world, on a Yahoo map, where a Flickr photograph was taken. Flickr’s video introducing it is very slick, and I look forward to trying it....

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Added some new letters to my name: FCD. That’s Friends of Charles Darwin. Not sure what good this will do me, but I’m proud to say it loud: I’m godless and proud. And it sits well alongside my ministry in the Universal Life Church. I bought that back in the Silurian, having taken umbrage at idio...

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Damn!

Damn, damn, damn. I’ve got a stupid piece of work to do. So in preparation I treat myself to a quick surf. I head on over to The Viscount’s place, and revel in his stiletto work as he minces the SoBaps among whom he finds himself. Bravo. But of course nothing arises from nothing, does it?...

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I don't mean to make light, but levity often stares back at the face of awfulness. Blue Wren reports:

Recently, a National Public Radio reporter in Baghdad informed listeners that religious extremists murdered a shepherd because, well, he wouldn’t diaper his goats to hide their naughty bits. A...

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I see over on BBC news that BASF, the “chemical” company, wants to plant a trial of potatoes engineered to resist late blight. Leave aside the question of whether, as BASF says, engineering is “the only way” to get resistance genes (found in wild potatoes) into domesticated varieties. Leave aside,...

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