Nah, I’m not waxing poetic after today’s meetings.
Rather as an appropriate birthday piece I’m going to reprise part of a 2004 post that also spoke to PZ:
But, just to show that withdrawal was not complete, when I saw this guy:
I couldn’t help but think of PZ Myers.
I suspect most of you have a bit more bandwidth than you had in 2004 so click on that fellow (176 KB) and get up close and personal just like you know PZ wants you to do!
Happy birthday, PZ!
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….?
Do link to the Ark every week!
You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.
Cats
Dogs
Other Vertebrates
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.
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 154th edition, 3/5, is up at Tacjammer. The 155th edition will be hosted at xxx on 3/11, well, the Carnival of the Cats . There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging hosted on 3/10-11 by What Did You Eat . 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 44th edition is up and hosted by The Greenbelt. The 45th edition will be hosted on 3/22 by Journey Through Grace.
For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 18th edition is up and hosted by Pharyngula. The 19th edition will be hosted at the end of March by Burning Silo.
For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival
Note for Haloscan Users:
Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.
Note for Typepad Users:
Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.
Bryan, Why Now, tells us why we should trust Bill Gates:
Any member of Congress who is tempted to vote for anything based on the testimony of Bill Gates should read a Microsoft warranty¹. After reading that piece of legal prose and having it parsed to explain exactly what it says, the member of Congress should be able to understand how trustworthy Bill Gates isn’t.
Here is Bryan’s shorter Microsoft warranty:
Microsoft only guarantees the quality of the media [CD-ROM or DVD] that their products are shipped on. They don’t guarantee that anything will be on the media, and if there is something on the media, they don’t guarantee that it will do anything. If the media is defective, they’ll replace it.
Letting Microsoft hire a bunch on H1-Bs will not change their unwarranty.
Bryan’s analysis of high tech unemployment and H1-Bs is correct. Nevertheless, here we do support open borders whether it be Mexican, Indian, Canadian, Cuban,…..
Governments should not be allowed to get in the way of people’s voluntary movement or their voluntary exchange of goods.
It is not an answer that politicians will like but Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat gets it right:
I have long thought the solution to the marriage fight is to get government out of the marriage business. Let churches marry — or refuse to marry — whomever they choose. Have the state support families through civil contracts. For the most part, families are what they define themselves to be.
This is already happening, without government. For the first time in more than a century, married households now are the minority in America. In Seattle, a whopping 67 percent of households are headed by unmarried adults.
Politicians, be they republicans or democrats, and bureaucrats do not like giving up control. Indeed, it is one of their greatest failings.
This is one area where we can start removing the bonds imposed by our state and federal governments and work to make sure that current and future legislative bodies do nothing more to discriminate against whatever form of living arrangements consenting adults may choose.
The birds of science, serendipity, words and pictures are ready for your enjoyment at I and the Bird #44 hosted by The Greenbelt.
