September 30, 2006

Keeping the Line Rider Upright

Well, there are a lot of ways to pass waste time with Line Rider.

It is easy enough to make a wall to smash him into or a jump for him to fly off of into infinity.

I thought I'd try keeping him upright, traveling at least 2/3 of the way across the screen on his first run and then stopping would be fun. I didn't quite get him to stop at the end of the run and he's still going after about 15 minutes now and hasn't quite stopped. Will he fall over when he comes to a complete stop?

I'll check before I go home to see what has happened to him.

Via The Presurfer.

Update 4 hours later: The line rider is upright and stopped on the line about half way across. Experiment terminated.

NB: This post was written earlier this week during lunch hour at work and not posted. Thus the work context.

Posted by Steve on September 30, 2006

September 29, 2006

Friday Ark #106

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page (construction underway). OOPS!!! No you can't. The Arkive page is missing in action. Just email me or use the Blog Carnival Submission form. Thanks to 1st timer cnedaria for the heads up!

Cats

Invertebrates

Other Vertebrates

Dogs

Birds

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (72 shouts as of 9/28)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 131st edition, 9/24 is up at House of Chaos. The 132nd edition will be hosted by Pets Garden Blogon 10/1. You will find more cats at Weekend Cat Blogging which will be hosted this week by House of the (Mostly) Black Cats and has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 33rd edition is up and hosted by Don't Mess With Taxes. The 34th edition will be hosted on 10/12 by Tortoise Trail.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 13th edition is up at Deep Sea News. The 14th edition will be hosted at the end of October by The Neurophilosopher's Blog.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on September 29, 2006 | Comments (10)

September 28, 2006

Spineless Tattoos

The 13th Circus of the Spineless is up at Deep Sea News:

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Click the pic to enter and let'm know in comments which is your favorite spineless tattoo.

Posted by Steve on September 28, 2006

On Nest Eggs

Kay Bell usually focuses on human nest eggs but this week she leads a foray into the avian variety as host of the 33rd I and the Bird.

Posted by Steve on September 28, 2006

September 27, 2006

Pod Wars

Perhaps Apple should have thought about trademark issues before they named it iPod:

Even if the product you make doesn't look, smell, feel, or do anything remotely close to what an iPod does, and even if consumers can't buy it on the shelves in a store, that apparently doesn't mean Apple won't release its legal dogs on you if the name of your product includes the letters P-O-D.
I wonder what they are going to do about this:
At last I said, "UnkaTom? Tell me the Poddy story-- "
"At your age?"
"Please," I crawled up on his knees. "I want to sit in your lap once more and hear it. I need to."
"All right," he said, and put his arm around me. "Once upon a time, long, long ago when the world was young, in a specially favored city there lived a little girl named Poddy.
The drift from here is that Apple can trademark iPod until hell freezes over but that is where it ends.

If they persist in this foolishness then perhaps we should all consider mailing them pea pods. Either full or empty will be fine.

We can call it the Cupertino Pod Party.

Posted by Steve on September 27, 2006

Read Banned Books

It is the ALA's Banned Book Week's 25th anniversary!

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Buy a button!

Read one of the 100 most challenged books.

Or, well, heck read them all!

Posted by Steve on September 27, 2006

September 26, 2006

101 Ways to Heaven

Well, 101 Stairways to Heaven, and no guarantee of safe passage.

Via Respectful Insolence.

Posted by Steve on September 26, 2006

September 24, 2006

Cat Carnival

The Brothers Loup-Garou and Zorro speaking (with the occasional outburst from Bean Sidhe)

present the 131st Carnival of the Cats.

Posted by Steve on September 24, 2006

September 23, 2006

HP Does the Right Thing...Why Doesn't Congress?

A breach of HP's culture may have allowed this ill behavior to occur but it looks like the company is getting its culture back on track quickly:

Hewlett-Packard shoved Chairwoman Patricia Dunn off its board Friday, severing its ties to a leader whose efforts to plug a media leak morphed into a spying scandal that has spawned criminal and congressional investigations.
No matter whether it be chairman of the board, chief operating officer or president of the United States when they break the law, violate basic human rights, then they should be quickly removed from their position.

Waiting for the end of a contract or term of office or the next election is not acceptable in cases of such fundamental violations. That congress has not acted implicates at least the majority senators and representatives as accomplices. It is not clear that the minority legislators as indicated by their seeming compacency are any less guilty.

There are times when the people must take the action into their own hands. We may be facing one of those times.

Posted by Steve on September 23, 2006 | Comments (1)

Hosting Problems

Due to severe problems on the server hosting Modulator at Hosting Matters I have been unable to do any updates since yesterday, Friday, at around noon.

Mail is till broken.

I will also post a note in yesterday's Friday Ark.

Posted by Steve on September 23, 2006

September 22, 2006

Friday Ark #105

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page (construction underway).

Problems 9/23 11:49 PST: The server hosting Modulator broke Friday, 9/22, at about noon. I probably have permanently lost any trackbacks sent during the past 24 hours and assume comments did not work. Also, I may have lost any mail sent in the past 24 hours. I have quite a few links that I prepped yesterday but could not post and will put them up in a few minutes...check below the break in each category.

I know there are some regulars that have been missed but I will probably not catch up with anything else until tonight.

Cats

Other Vertebrates

Invertebrates

Dogs

Birds

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

September 21, 2006

A Resistance Tool

Expect a rush to use tools like the Torpark web browser as thugs like this increasingly get their way:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has voiced support for data retention laws that would require ISPs to keep information about what consumers are doing on the Internet.
Unfortunately, Tor is not up to the task of handling much of a load at this time.

Related: A Leash That Tightens Slowly via Gjoblaag.

Posted by Steve on September 21, 2006 | Comments (3)

September 20, 2006

Wordless Wednesday

It's Wordless Wednesday at PJ's place.

Posted by Steve on September 20, 2006

Is It A Phallic Symbol or....?

The sculptor calls the piece Hope and Renewal

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and says:

"In Cambodia, the idea of planting a flower signifies hope and renewal and the flower is a symbol of growth and opportunity," Garber explained. "So I thought in that area where there are a lot of immigrants and a lot of refugees that it would be appropriate to design something that gives some sense of optimism, of growth or hope, to kind of uplift the community without being too literal."

Some of the fine citizens of Chicago apparently think it is more phallic than plantlike. Laura at The Sarchasm opines:
I'm not sure I know what the sculpture is supposed to be, but I'm pretty sure it does not remotely resemble any part of the external human anatomy. I think abstinence only education is having an adverse effect on our society, don't you? What are they teaching kids these days? If you have sex before marriage, your willy will end up looking like THIS!
Yep!

To me it looks like a couple abstract cobra headed golf drivers or croquet mallets and it certainly could be a couple germinating seeds.

What does it look like to you?

Posted by Steve on September 20, 2006 | Comments (1)

Tundra Rounds

Grand Rounds, Volume 2, Number 52 is up at Tundra Medicine Dreams.

Grand Rounds is

...the medical blogosphere’s weekly carnival of the best writing and thinking on topics related to health and healthcare. This week’s edition comes to you from the beautiful state of Alaska.

Grand Rounds and the Friday Ark appear to share a close birthday. This is GR's 104th issue and last Friday was the Ark's 104th boarding! Tundra Dreams has decked out this issue of the Rounds with some great animal pictures so I plan to board them this Friday.

Posted by Steve on September 20, 2006

September 19, 2006

Extinction By Fart

Recent research suggests that only one of the 5 major mass extinctions was caused by meteor impact. The rest were more likely caused by deep-sea anaerobic bacteria:

In their models, if the deepwater H2S concentrations were to increase beyond a critical threshold during such an interval of oceanic anoxia, then the chemocline separating the H2S-rich deepwater from oxygenated surface water could have floated up to the top abruptly. The horrific result would be great bubbles of toxic H2S gas erupting into the atmosphere.

Warm things up a bit via volcanic sourced high CO2 and you create the making of massive bacterial farts of deadly gas.

The author of the article says that conditions for these bubbly killers occur in a massive scale when CO2 levels reach around 1000 parts per million. Current levels are at 385 and rising 2-3 ppm per year. Assuming the rate of increase does not go above 3 ppm/year then expect next mass extinctions to begin in at most 200 years.

Yep, your great-great grand children might be around, briefly, to see it.

Posted by Steve on September 19, 2006

September 17, 2006

Legalization With Regulation: A Step Better Than Now

Nevada residents have an opportunity in November to take a step to move closer to opting out of the dramatically failed war on drugs:

...we've spent billions of dollars, and marijuana is easier to get than model airplane glue.

Last year in Nevada, more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes combined. The burden on cops, courts and prisons is staggering. I'd rather see those assets used to hunt down real criminals, or the 10 people I see running red lights every day.

This isn't personal. I'm not a marijuana user, and I don't like being around people who smoke anything.

Legalization is simply the lesser evil: What we're doing now doesn't amount to much but a full-employment program for lawyers and cops.

It is only a small step but perhaps a necessary one. Real progress probably can't be made until the major special interest groups that fuel the failed war are minimized. The Nevada proposal would appear to eliminate significant demand for police, lawyers, courts and prison space so should be a positive step.

Via RegulateMarijuana.org

Posted by Steve on September 17, 2006

In The Land of the Free

There is no legislation mandating constitution day.

Posted by Steve on September 17, 2006

September 15, 2006

Friday Ark #104

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page (construction underway).

Note: Trackbacks from here to Typepad sites are returning a 500 message today.

Cats

Invertebrates

Dogs

Birds

Other Vertebrates

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 08/17)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 129th edition, 9/10 is up at Begin Each Day. The 130th edition will be hosted by Justin's Random Thoughts on 9/17. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff's Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 32nd edition is up and hosted by Sand Creek Almanac.The 33rd edition will be hosted on 9/28 by Don't Mess With Taxes.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on September 15, 2006 | Comments (14)

September 14, 2006

Passionate Birding

I and the Bird #32 is up at sand creek almanac.

Posted by Steve on September 14, 2006

Need to Avoid Blogging?

Mrs Modulator found a wikiHow article on her Google homepage that provides some advice on dissuading oneself from blogging. Most of the article's suggestions fit, well, they fit those they fit. That is, if you are going to follow them you are not going to blog and probably didn't really want to.

There is one suggestion that we all should pay a bit of attention to whenever we start an activity or project:

Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog.
Be it blogging, Go, a treehouse, or any other project or pastime you are going to trade off some other activity. Make sure you trade off the right ones.

Need to remove a hickey? Or advise someone about hickey removal? Here's the wikiHow article.

Posted by Steve on September 14, 2006 | Comments (4)

Depends for w

Christopher Buckley on the past 6 years of the bush administration:

Who knew, in 2000, that “compassionate conservatism” meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research?

A more accurate term for Mr. Bush’s political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.

Independents, republicans and democrats should all send w a diaper.

Posted by Steve on September 14, 2006 | Comments (1)

September 13, 2006

An Irish Viagra

Chuckle....

Posted by Steve on September 13, 2006

September 12, 2006

In The Early Hours

Yesterday g w bush said:

So their answer is to deny people this choice by raging against the forces of freedom and moderation. This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations. In truth, it is a struggle for civilization. We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations. And we're fighting for the possibility that good and decent people across the Middle East can raise up societies based on freedom and tolerance and personal dignity.

We are now in the early hours of this struggle between tyranny and freedom.

He is so right and so wrong.

Yes, we are in the early hours of the fight for freedom and liberty, the early hours of the struggle for civilization.

It is not, though, a fight between the United States and al Quaeda or the United States and some phantom called Islamofascism or the United States and the concept of terrorism.

It is a fight between people throughout the world and those individuals or groups who would use force to achieve their ends. These latter, be they street corner thugs or state actors are our enemy.

May it be over soon.

Posted by Steve on September 12, 2006 | Comments (1)

September 11, 2006

Like A Diamond In The Sky

World Trade Center.

Read the post and meditate on the picture at the bottom.

Thanks to Jane Galt for bringing forward this post from a time when most of us were not reading blogs.

Posted by Steve on September 11, 2006

osama...?

Let's ask w.

Via .

Posted by Steve on September 11, 2006

September 10, 2006

Skritch'm

This week Orloff and Pushkin, les Wonkitties, host the Carnival of the Cats at Begin Each Day As If It Were On Purpose.

Posted by Steve on September 10, 2006

Get Thee Out

If you believe in things like satan and possession by evil spirits then you probably need folks around called exorcists. Exorcists might say things like:

"Magic is always a turn to the devil," said the Roman Catholic priest, according to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.

Amorth, who is also the president of the International Association of Exorcists, said the series contains many positive references to "the satanic art" of magic and makes no distinction between black and white magic.

Amorth compared the Potter character to dictators Stalin and Hitler, saying they were possessed by the devil.

"You can tell by their behavior and their actions, from the horrors they committed and the atrocities that were committed on their orders. That's why we need to defend society from demons," said Amorth, who has reportedly performed 30,000 exorcisms.

Apparently he is paid or at least fully supported to perform his hand wavings.

Via MaxSpeak, You Listen!.

Posted by Steve on September 10, 2006

September 9, 2006

Cleaning Up After w...

Perhaps some hundreds or thousands of these scattered around Bagdad and environs will protect Americans and Iraqis from the hell that dick and george have created:

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These things are apparently sprouting up in Beijing:

Evidently a necessary invention in a world filled with terror, the structure is not only bulletproof, but can withstand a 15 ton blast as well.

Are the Chinese expecting something?

Posted by Steve on September 9, 2006

September 8, 2006

Friday Ark #103

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page(construction underway).

Note: Leading off this weeks Ark are the boarders that didn't make last week's edition due to the staff's vacation. They are marked with an *.

Cats

Other Vertebrates

Dogs

Birds

Invertebrates

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (72 shouts as of 09/06)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 128th edition, 9/3 is up at Watermark. The 130th edition will be hosted by Begin Each Day on 9/10. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff's Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 31st edition is up and hosted by migrateblog.The 32st edition will be hosted on 9/14 by Sand Creek Almanac.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on September 8, 2006 | Comments (16)

September 7, 2006

Solving New Orlean's Murder Problem

Yesterday afternoon NPR presented a lengthy story on murder in present day New Orleans:

New Orleans' murder rate is as high as it was in July 2005, but the city's homicide squad employs one-quarter the staff it had before Katrina. Day or night, working conditions are beyond difficult.

Early in the piece the reporter noted that many think that the high murder rate, nearly double that of pre-Katrina New Orleans, is due to strife between gangs over drug sales turf. This may be true and midway through the piece one police officer is interviewed who very explicity describes the battles going on over various street corners. Yet of all the murders that are reported in the story only one closes with its cause: a 15 year old boy is killed by someone who thinks he stole his FEMA money.

Not drugs but Fema money.

However, if the good folks in New Orleans would like to dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, the drug turf murders and mayhem they can do so easily: legalize the sale and use of currenly illegal drugs. There are few murders over the marketing and sale of goods and services that are not suppressed by governments.

So, New Orleans, solve your drug related murder problem. Reject the failed war on drugs.

Posted by Steve on September 7, 2006 | Comments (1)

abramoff on rove

No respect amongst thieves :

"Like I said, everything that comes out of the White House is logged in," explained Abramoff. "The phone calls he makes. The phone calls he receives. So this is just easier. It keeps things a lot cleaner. And he's a fat fuck, and he can use the exercise."

There is plenty more on rove in this upcoming book: The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power .

Via Jessa Crispin.

Posted by Steve on September 7, 2006

September 6, 2006

First Katrina...

...then the Aftermath.

Via William Gibson.

Posted by Steve on September 6, 2006

Finding Old News

How many times have you tried to research a post and not been able to find that 6 month old article that you kind of remember....? It has happened to me more than once!

Now, google, has taken a big step toward solving that and related research problems with the introduction of Google News Archive Search. Yep, you are no longer stoppered by Google's old 30 day limit.

I ran several tests and a search for (clinton opium) brought up a result from the Clinton, Iowa Mirror dated March 14, 1896. This result came from newspaperarchive.com, a pay service, so Google must have some kind of arrangement with them.

Via John Battele.

Posted by Steve on September 6, 2006

September 5, 2006

Construction Zone

23:35 CDT The admin crew will be working on an upgrade to Movable Type 3.31 and there may be some breaks in service and messy templates for a while.

01:07 CDT Well, the upgrade is done and I see that there is already a Version 3.32 but that will have to wait. Let me know if you notice any strange behavior.

Posted by Steve on September 5, 2006

Second the Motion

Best. Caption. Evar!

A podium girl holds the Cock of Leon. It's a local symbol.

No, really!

Totally SFW.

Nothing to add...go judge for yourself.

Posted by Steve on September 5, 2006 | Comments (1)

A Web 2.0 Logo

Those of you into logos and things might have fun with this Web 2.0 logo generator.

Here is a version for Modulator:

(reflect)Modulator.png

Via inessential.com.

Posted by Steve on September 5, 2006 | Comments (1)

September 3, 2006

Peering At Modulator's Navel

The past 10 days have been near a complete vacation from blogging, well, the Ark boarded a couple times but that was about it. Looking back, August has been our slowest month since September 05.

A lot of my blogging time over the past 6 months has been given over to learning to play Go and what that still nascent endeavor hasn't consumed has been taken by work and family. Kind of like the rest of you, right?

There has been and, with the fall elections stumbling upon us, will continue to be plenty of grist for the mill.

The future will be told by the writing on the page.

Posted by Steve on September 3, 2006 | Comments (3)

September 1, 2006

Friday Ark #102

We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and....?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page(construction underway).

Note: Leading off this weeks Ark are the boarders that didn't make last week's edition due to the staff's vacation. They are marked with an *.

Cats

Dogs

Invertebrates

Birds

Other Vertebrates

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 08/17)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 127th edition, 8/27 is up at Catymology. The 128th edition will be hosted by Watermark on 9/3. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff's Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 31st edition is up and hosted by migrateblog.The 32st edition will be hosted on 9/14 bySand Creek Almanac.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on September 1, 2006 | Comments (17)