Poor trilobits.

Also, this never occurred to me before, but I agree: Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention Of Bazooka

Ergh. We're instituting a new records management system that's going to make me incredibly twitchy. Any e-mail that is not moved into a managed folder—where it becomes undeleteable for a set number of years—will be purged after four months without warning. And we can't create archive folders anymore.

More kitty~ma for you, sumi. I hope he is safe in those nooks and crannies.

Perhaps not as strong a sign of the apocalypse as "dogs and cats living together," but it still ain't right: Toaster looks and acts like a printer

The comments are hilarious:

"PC LOAD WHEAT", WHAT THE F* DOES THAT MEAN?!

Useful advice for the holidays: Drink Lighter-Colored Liquors to Avoid Hangovers

Researchers at Brown University liquored up nearly a hundred study participants with various alcoholic drinks—all the different shades of alcohol were mixed into caffeine-free cola to mask the color and flavor of the particular alcohol—and observed them. All the participants that consumed alcohol slept worse and performed worse on cognitive tests than the participants that didn't, but the participants that drank lighter-colored liquor had less hangover related symptoms the next day.

Overall, bourbon drinkers reported feeling worse than vodka drinkers, rating higher on scales that measure the severity of hangover malaise, including headache, nausea, loss of appetite and thirst. It should come as no surprise that alcohol drinkers said they felt much worse than those who had drunk only tonic water.

One reason for the different effects of vodka and bourbon, Rohsenow says, could be that bourbon contains 37 times more toxic compounds than vodka does, including nasty organic molecules such as acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins and furfural. A good rule of thumb for liquors, she says, is that the clearer they are, the less of these substances they contain.

{{sumi}} I hope he's safe in a nook and that he will recognize you and come to you while you are looking for him.

If you're here Typo Boy, I listened to your interview and I thought you did a great job. I've read that Scientific American article and found it intriguing.

My in-laws think man-made climate change is a hoax and that the rising temperatures are part of a long-term climate cycle. It's an argument I find difficult to counter since every time I search for an article I come up with the 1998 data point counter argument instead. I would point out that CO2 concentrations have gone up dramatically since the dawn of the industrial age, far too fast for a natural explanation, not to mention isotope levels can determine if the origin is from man-made sources. However, that doesn't directly address the argument. I think that's the line Palin is going with as well.

Have you seen this chart, Gud?

Thanks Gud.Did you follow the "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic" Link I sent you? Here it is again. [link] . Scroll down to find it indexed by category and sub-category. It includes a whole section on "Climate Change is Natural">

BTW, the chart Tom Scala linked above is awesome. I'm adding it to my bookmarks.