Posts tagged “evolution”

The Scarlet M

I’ve been thinking lately that there should be some way to flag others on Facebook to remind yourself to ignore them. Of course you can unfriend people; I’m not talking about that. I’m primarily talking about friends of friends. I kind of like the idea of a scarlet M, for moron. Frequently I’ll read a

  • The Banana Song will haunt your dreams.
  • The photo of an iPhone 4 on the cover of the September 2010 issue of Macworld was taken with an iPhone 4.
  • Big Bird“He needed to know how Big Bird could possibly have arisen from evolutionary history: What are its relatives? How did it achieve such a unique bone structure? What happened to the other members of his species?” … The Taxonomy of Big Bird, Grandicrocavis Viasesamensis
    (This is the same guy who is running The Beibignorance Project, a scientific exercise to determine just how little one can possibly know about Justin Bieber.)
  • There’s more to the story of how America got her name than just ol’ Americus Vespucci.
  • Springsteen MapAnd while we’re talking about maps… Check out this awesome map of New Jersey (larger) based on the music of Bruce Springsteen.
  • Serenity Now! could be the scariest movie of the summer. The Oregon Trail is going to be the big one at the box office, though.
  • The Periodic Table of Swearing is now available in color.
  • “Two Michigan coffee shops have said that since throwing their employees into bikinis to serve up cups of joe, they’ve experienced a sizable jump in sales.”
  • I pity those who suffer from RAS syndrome.
  • It’s nice to know that according to Laver’s Law, I have always been shameless.
  • “There’s an age at which it is no longer cool to have your own name and number on the back of a jersey. That age is 10.” from Sports Rule #2
2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Genetics and Evolution

… some wonderful comments on genetics and evolution from the USS Clueless …

AI

Life began with direct coding on bare, carbon-chemistry hardware, like amino acids and proteins. Higher programming languages, like DNA and RNA, evolved gradually. Computers began in a similar fashion, with programmers coding on to the bare machinery of their circuits. Higher programming languages have followed, each generation more powerful than the last. There is, of

Far Side

“I know you miss the Wainwrights, Bobby, but they were weak and stupid people – and that’s why we have wolves and other large predators.” Update: I received an email from Gary Larson’s attorneys requesting very, very strongly that I remove the image. :0(

University of Otago Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology program

New Zealand My good friend Chris O’Brien was tentatively accepted into the University of Otago‘s Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology’s program to work on his PhD in Bio-Archaeology and Human Evolution.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.