Category: Miscellanea

  • Moral Consideration of Plants

    From the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology. I think I’ll go kick a dandelion. Hat tip: Volokh Conspiracy.

  • Lark – er, starling – of a Story

    Simply amazing. Hat tip: Pros and Cons

  • Minor Site Tweaks, More to Come

    As promised, a few little changes have been going on behind and before the scenes, today. First, the blog software has been upgraded. More noticeably, I added a LinkedIn button and the AddThis bookmark dropdown menu. Want to add one of my posts to your Digg, Facebook, MySpace, or other link list? Click away –…

  • Life = Insanity

    I have not been posting too much, lately. One key reason for this: Sarah tore a tendon out of her ankle and then proceeded to get terribly sick, on top of it. (She’s okay now – has an air cast, needs physical therapy, and is still congested, but is decidedly on the mend.) Of course,…

  • More Fun with Daylight Savings Time

    I had forgotten another wonderful byproduct of DST. Microsoft Outlook automatically changes all of my all-day or multi-day appointments to start one hour later. Why it would be true, now, that the Fourth of July holiday would start at 1:00 AM, for example… I have no idea. P.S. This doesn’t impact appointments that are not…