Nov 16 2008
Sep 21 2008
Weekly top 5
Lisa Germano - Slide
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Frou Frou - Details
Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
Sep 14 2008
Weekly top 5
Santogold - Santogold
Deb Talan - A Bird Flies Out
Deb Talan - Something Burning
Deb Talan - Sincerely
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Sep 07 2008
Weekly top 5
Santogold - Santogold
Ella Fitzgerald - The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald
Interpol - Antics
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts - Selwa
Sep 01 2008
Weekly top 5
It’s been a few months, but the weekly top 5 is back. I know you missed knowing what I listened to while studying the past few weeks…
Interpol - Antics
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Plus and Minus - You Are Here
Air - Moon Safari
Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress
Aug 16 2008
Back to the music
I haven’t done a weekly top 5 since June, and I’m not planning on doing one today. Hopefully you’ve all still managed to find good music. Just in case you’re having trouble, though, here’s a song I really love.
Jun 17 2008
What I’ve noticed
Monitor Mix is complaining about the same music being redone. Have you ever heard of Cilla Black or Sandy Shaw?
Doing science in a nutshell at Seeds Aside:
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t correct those mistakes you’re doing it really wrong. If you can’t accept that you’re mistaken, you’re not doing it at all.
Pandagon discovers that voter ID laws have prevented a woman who has voted in the last 19 presidential elections from registering to vote in Arizona. And I believe it. I had to try 4 times before I’d given them all the paperwork and information they wanted.
The Edge of the American West presents “Things that it has been empirically demonstrated academics do not know,” including
Asking a question is not the same thing as giving a speech.
This is painfully evident at departmental seminars.
A video of McCarthy you should have seen over at The Edge of the American West.
Some plants can recognize genetic relatives and modify their behavior based on that information. Full length explanation at A Neotropical Savanna.
Hottonia inflata is now on the list of plants I have to see in person.
Jun 07 2008
Weekly top 5
Mosquitos - Mosquitos
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
Emilie Simon - Vegetal
Mosquitos - Sunshine Barato
Jun 06 2008
What I’ve noticed
That’s how right-wing crap works. It’s not meant to advance or even partake of discourse; it’s meant to end it. One can argue the worth of Hillary’s policies or her voting record or her position on the war till the cows come home; but when she’s reduced to being a bitch, that pretty much ends the discussion. And when it’s as pervasive as it’s become in the past decade, its effects are paralyzingly toxic.
These numbers are particularly maddening given how debilitating the condition can be: Women with really bad vulvodynia can become unable to walk, wear pants, or sit without pain, and it can last for years or even for a lifetime. Imagine, by contrast, how the medical community would approach a disorder that made any friction unbearably painful for one in six penises.
Now I do speed read. Sometimes I miss the nuance of a sentence and need to go back because it is too complex to fly through so quickly. This one I staggered through several times not because of speed but out of sheer goggling.
Pharyngula reminds us we’re all going to hell.
