Superman’s Evil Baby Nemesis Wagging Dogs and Reading Palms

May 1, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging Academics, Education, Features, Just Plain Fun, Science | Leave a Comment

Good news! These past couple of weeks have seen a resurgence of actual science and interesting science factoids for all the sci-blog watchers out there, the political infighting has thankfully moved into the background where it belongs. Not that political infighting isn’t fun for political junkies to watch and get a giggle out of, but […]

All Hell Breaks Loose In Sci-Blog Land!

April 19, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Blogging Academics, Education, Features, Just Plain Fun, News, Science | 4 Comments

The science blogging community has been inundated over the last week-plus with commentary on the subject of “framing” and whether scientists should be framing things in easy-to-digest sound-bytes for consumption by the general public. It started with an article in Science Magazine by Matthew Nisbet and Chris Mooney, entitled “Framing Science.”
This was followed by an […]

The Most Silent Spring, ‘Going Grad’ and Neuronal Equality

April 3, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging Academics, Education, Ethics, Features, Just Plain Fun, Science | Leave a Comment

Happy April to one and all! This year it went from freezing all the way to mid-summer 80+ degrees in 12 hours, making me just that much more concerned about global warming. In this science blog round-up I’m going to start out with some positively apocalyptic signs and omens almost as weird as the fact […]

Sudoku and Open Source Collaboration

March 25, 2007 | Filed Under Japan, Just Plain Fun, New Media | 2 Comments

If you haven’t heard of Sudoku, then you must have been living under a rock the past couple of years. Sudoku is the numbers puzzle wherein you fill in the blanks on a 9×9 grid such that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes contains the digits 1 to 9. While […]

Do You Have A Hidden Life?

March 23, 2007 | Filed Under Just Plain Fun, Social Media | 3 Comments

I know some bloggers who blog anonymously, or sometimes under a pseudonym. This is usually done for various reasons, including personal security (afraid of stalkers, eh?), job security (the boss might be into blogs, and might read the crap you write about him), or sometimes even just to be able to express things you won’t […]

March 24 Is World Shutdown Day

March 20, 2007 | Filed Under Just Plain Fun, Technology | 6 Comments

At first I thought it’s that day you have to powercycle your computer by actually shutting it down and turning it back on–instead of just putting it to hibernate or sleep–a habit I developed through years of working on computers. You see, for a guy with so much clutter work to take care of, I […]

Silly Science, Head Cheese, and the Hairless Vulpes of Carolina

March 6, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging Academics, Education, Features, Just Plain Fun, Science | 3 Comments

This edition of science blogging is going to look at some scientific tidbits about brains… and minds, as those seem to come attached to brains. There has been quite a lot on the subjects these past couple of weeks, thus lots of meaty stuff (apologies to those who gag at the thought of head cheese) […]

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A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

SocialMediaPop Mashes Social Media Sites
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Ryan Caldwell, of Performancing fame, had an idea:
Why not build a tool that only shows the stories that went popular on at least two social voting sites?
The result, via Suffolk Software, is SocialMediaPop. Cool project, in beta for now. I wonder what the social media sites think of services like this?
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