Lakeshore

Oldest Live-Birth Fossil Found; Fish Had Umblical Cord — Intensely cool. (Or a satanic mockery, if you happen to be a Young Earth Creationist.)

Gut superbug causing more illnesses, deaths — More antibiotic resistant bugs to worry about it. Does Intelligent Design explain this sort of this? (Thanks to lt260.)

APOD with another of those cool Mars Phoenix images — And a rocking crater, to boot.

A floorplan of 221B Baker Street

National Space Society Space Ambassadors — You know you want to fill out the registration for an application.

Mountain dwellings — An innovative housing development in Denmark. (Snurched from threeoutside.)

Freakonomics with more on the politics of happiness — "So why are the zealots so happy? Many readers of my last post suggested that there is a tremendous amount of comfort — even happiness — in total certainty. I think this interpretation is right, and applies to fundamentalists of every stripe."

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5/30/08
Time in saddle: 0 minutes (still recovering from surgery)
Last night's weigh-out: 0
This morning's weigh-in: 262.3
Currently reading: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia [ Amazon ]

the_child's first run on the professional stage ends this weekend, as ¡Entusiasmo! closes Saturday evening. She seems to have enjoyed it a lot, we'll see if she has caught the bug.

In other news, she's been working on an original composition on my ancestral piano. lasirenadolce helped her with some transcription, then the_child called her music teacher at home for some additional advice. The next day at school he put her handwritten notes into a program, corrected the note values, and gave her back a printout of the first part of the song. I eagerly await further developments.

She drew a one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other double portrait of me and kenscholes. (Which I don't have a scan of yet, alas.) She also drew ( Collapse )