Opponents of the development at Crown Hill Cemetery, showing uncommon star power, on Wednesday defeated a plan that would have allowed more than 300 houses and a strip mall on the cemetery’s northernmost 70 acres.
No houses or strip mall at Crown Hill, panel rules | IndyStar.com
There’s hope after all for environmentally responsible development in [...]
This is something that I just completely fail to understand. It reeks of the politically inspired Lysenkoism from the Stalinist era. That misguided attempt to force science into serving political purposes set genetics and biology back in the Soviet Union for decades.
The Bush administration has again been charged with interfering with federal climate science, in [...]
Today is officially the first day of spring. Even though this picture was taken last weekend, crocuses poking their heads up has always been the first official sign of spring. They don’t last long, but they’re always a welcome sight.
Reason # 453 why I’m usually not very productive if I try working at home. :)
It would be too easy to make a joke about this. I’m glad he survived, but there has to be a lawyer joke in here somewhere.
CNN Video - Shark bites lawyer
I’ve felt a bit like a Luddite the last month or so, as I’ve started to explore Flickr and realized how much it offers. The last couple of years I’ve tended to ignore social sharing sites like MySpace, Yahoo! 360, and other similar services because they haven’t seemed to be a vehicle for serious on-line [...]
Still experimenting with processing digital IR images…
A Minolta DiMage 7 to be exact. I got it off eBay, specifically to play around with digital IR photography. Sunday was supposed to be overcast, with snow flurries. Instead it was bright, sunny, with just a few scattered clouds. Perfect (or as perfect as it can be when it’s still in the mid-20’s with [...]
Another one for the “well duh” file.
I just recently splurged and bought Adobe Lightroom. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so impressed with a piece of software (other than software I come across in my day job, which is cool in its own right, but which few people outside of hard-core sciences have ever heard of). I never quite [...]
