So, following a link from TJICblog I find the Globe wants me to register to view its content. I took a quick look at the membership agreement (hidden behind a link rather than presented onscreen during the signup process), and it appears to me that the Globe is trying to protect itself from bloggers:
2. BOSTON.COM [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Daddy, what’s a “boston globe”?
January 31, 2006 – 11:28 am
The big picture, redux
January 24, 2006 – 10:57 pm
Another awesome image from Mark Thomas of Sorabji.com. Mentioned here before, Mark’s Big Picture feature is one of my favorites. Visit regularly, ye readers of archenemy (all three of ye).
Cats + Protective Head Gear = Hilarity
January 24, 2006 – 2:43 pm
Although I am not a fan of catblogging/dogblogging, for some reason I couldn’t stop laughing. Maybe the look of embarassment on their faces….
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My appologies.
Thanks to Boing boing.
No one expects the spanish inquisition
January 22, 2006 – 1:18 pm
Via the QM (who doesn’t provide his results), a quiz:
Are you a heretic?
TJIC and NZC prove to not deviate much from their flock, or at least from what their flock publicly professes. TJIC writes:
Fill it out, and find out if you’re going to burn or not (at the stake, in hell, or just in Purgatory [...]
Brain worms
January 22, 2006 – 11:40 am
Parasites alter the behavior of their hosts:
I first encountered this idea while working on my book Parasite Rex. I was investigating the remarkable ability parasites have to manipulate the behavior of their hosts. The lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum, for example, forces its ant host to clamp itself to the tip of grass blades, where a [...]
Ouch!
January 13, 2006 – 6:51 pm
Krauthammer:
If Steven Spielberg had made a fictional movie about the psychological disintegration of a revenge assassin, that would have been fine. Instead, he decided to call this fiction “Munich” and root it in a historical event: the 1972 massacre by Palestinian terrorists of 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games. Once you’ve done that — [...]
Demographics and weak stomachs
January 10, 2006 – 6:30 pm
Having read Steyn’s latest, NZC opines
And for example, the whole assumption that societies with low birth rates will continue to decline is persuasive but not at all obvious. People can change their behaviors. I’m not saying they will, I’m far from certain it’s in any sense likely, but the Europeans and the Japanese could start [...]
Cool beans…
January 9, 2006 – 4:20 pm
I always lug around my laptop to make sure I have my apps available. Simple solution:
Portable openoffice
plus portable Firefox, T-bird and Sunbird.
Thanks Lifehacker
Coelacanth population explosion…
January 9, 2006 – 3:58 pm
As several of the contributors to this blog know, I have a special relationship with Coelacanths due my legendary forray into interpretive dance to Shriekback’s song of the same name. The Observer has an article about how a bunch have been caught-”Dinosaur fish pushed to the brink by deep-sea trawlers“. Since they are my [...]
In which we are visited by a small horse and Zeus’ mouse is taken, but all ends well
January 8, 2006 – 10:51 pm
Rare frequency
January 8, 2006 – 10:04 am
…is podcasting! Cool - now I can FF through the weird parts. ;-)
Push!Music
January 7, 2006 – 1:52 pm
Nice idea, but what are the odds that anyone nearby will have similar tastes to mine? Not good, I think.
(via)
The power of Rumsfeld
January 4, 2006 – 6:46 pm
I found this several months ago while trawling the www for general weirdness, promptly forgot where I got it. Since it was the kind of thing I didn’t really want to post without attribution, I back-burnered it.
Anyway, I love it - it’s awesome!
Although devianART seems to be malfunctioning a bit right now, making it difficult [...]
Upgrade hassles
January 3, 2006 – 11:10 pm
WP2.0 moved the upload feature to the post-writing page, which I thought was a good move. However, previous versions of WP allowed admins to create custom paths for uploads… mine points to a directory I created that is not, obviously, part of the default WP installation. The moved upload feature in WP2.0 wants to upload [...]