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The Color Fred Opens Premium Site to PETA2 Members

For the month of November, Modlife - the social networking site founded by Blink-182 and Angels and Airwaves member Tom DeLonge - is opening up "premium" membership to The Color Fred's page for free to members of PETA2! For those who don't know, premium members on Modlife get access...

Posted to Indie by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
Open Blogroll Day

I tidied up my blogroll today basically cleaning off blogs that aren't around anymore or haven't posted anything in six months. If you'd like to trade links then slap a link to here on your blog and let me know in the comments.

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 11/11/2008

The EPA's Stalin Era Stunning discoveries reveal just how dangerous the situation with the EPA has gotten. The Future of NASA Is it to shine once again or will NASA remain tarnished by the controversies it has accumulated over the past eight years? The Promise and Power of RNA The RNAi revolution...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
Doctors 'Optimistic' For Deftones Bassist

Doctors are "optimistic" that Deftones bassist Chi Cheng will recover from life-threatening injuries suffered in a car accident last week. Cheng's life was likely saved thanks to three off-duty EMTs who happened to be driving by the scene of the accident, according to the band's blog...

Posted to Pop by Anonymous on 11-09-2008
View from the road...

The next few shows are now live on the MySpace blog ... " Kyle was planning to dress as a transvestite - he was going to go to Anne Summers and get stockings, high heels, the full monty but chickens out - he opts for Dennis The Menace. "

Posted to Indie by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
News from Ediacara [Evolving Thoughts]

The Ediacaran period is the era between around 635Mybp and 540Mybp, just before the Cambrian. You pronounce it "ed-ee-ack-a-ran". It is also the name of a new blog by the inimitable Chris Nedin , erstwhile paleontologist who specialised in the Ediacaran fauna before joining the Dark Side (federal...

Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
Spider Eats Bird in Australia [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)]

tags: spider eats bird , golden orb spider , chestnut-breasted Mannikin , birds , avian , WTF , wow Golden Orb Spider eats a chestnut-breasted Mannikin in Australian garden. Image and story: Daily Mail . This picture and story is so creepy that it makes my skin crawl to see this at the top of my blog...

Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
Listen carefully, I shall say this only once

Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008 Welcome to nerds’ corner, and yet another small print criticism of a trivial act of borderline dubiousness which will ultimately lead to distorted evidence, irrational decisions, and bad outcomes in what I like to call “the real world”...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times

Some computers are never turned off, or at least rarely see any state less active than "standby," but others (for power savings or other reasons) need rebooting — daily, or even more often. The New York Times is running a short article which says that it's not just a few makers like...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
SciencePunk in the Guardian: How to make a zombie

Those nice people at the Guardian Science Blog have been nice enough to give me some space to talk about the science of zombies. What with Halloween and the release of Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set approaching, it seemed like the perfect topic!

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 10-25-2008

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