Monthly Archives: September 2005

Left Lane Campers

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It really is time to exterminate them. You know the ones:

In the course of years of freeway driving, it has become increasingly clear to me that the largest single source of clogging of America’s interstate arterials is not the highway system itself.
It’s pilot stupor.
Somewhere along the line, America either forgot � or failed to learn � how to drive on the freeway. It’s that simple. And that infuriating.
You know exactly what I mean: You’re driving along somewhere outside the normal clog zones, exulting in the rare opportunity to approach the actual speed limit, when you come up on the imbecile in question.
Driving a minivan, an SUV or a vintage K-Car. In the left lane. At or below the speed limit, beady eyes fixed dead ahead, hands at 10 and 2 o’clock. Refusing to move over. Not now. Not ever. Period. End of discussion. Stop flashing your lights � or get a brake-slam return message.

Read the rest and enjoy the chuckles but, remember, these folks need to be taken off the road!

Friday Ark # 50: Katrina Relief Edition

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Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
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….?
Katrina Relief Effort: If you have not already made your first donation please do so today! Please consider The Humane Society or one of these pet rescue sites.
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  • Our extensive staff finds it during our weekly search of the web

Of course, if our staff goes on strike then we will link only those posts someone tells us about.
Remember: Visit Each Boarder and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders.
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 76th edition will be hosted this week by The Conservative Cat.
Bird folks: Remember to submit your links to I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers. The 5th edition is hosted by A DC Birding Blog.
New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles will be posting its first edition on September 30 hosted by: Milk River Blog.
And, check out Laurence’s fine graphical analysis of Friday Ark boardings.
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
And, Leslie has information you need to read about the pending federal Pet Animal Welfare Statute. Help your senators and representatives either totally toss or at least improve this unneeded bit of federal legislation.
Cats

InvertebratesDogsBirdsOther VertebratesIn Memoriam

  • Athenamama: Missing Mama: Athena April 9, 2001 – August 31, 2003
  • Publius & Co.: Friday Rat Blogging: Leather is an old girl! She passed away 9/3.

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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….

Viva La Difference

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There has been much talk about the commonality between the human genome and that of other animals. Fir instance, human and chimpanzee genomes are 96% identical. Yet, that 4% is a lot of difference:

…it is the differences between the species�as many as 3 million of which fall in functional areas of the genomes�on which research now focuses.
According to the main study, the catalog of genetic differences includes about 35 million single-nucleotide changes, 5 million insertion/deletion events, and a number of other chromosomal rearrangements.

Yep, that should keep those researchers busy for a while.