because there’s never been a documented outbreak of fish flu or fishpox. And there may be a connection with factory farming in Mexico, where hogs and chickens are both raised in large, tightly packed facilities. David Kirby: Swine Flu Outbreak — Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production? Officials from the CDC and USDA will likely arrive in Mexico soon to help investigate the deadly new influenza virus that managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans. One of the first things they will want to look at are…
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Thanks, @mashable! Also, what a rotten time for @fallingrock to be on the road at @commonug. Wash your hands frequently, honey. HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online There are few things in this world that cannot be easily replaced, repaired, or regained. Our health and the health of the ones we love falls into this category. The best thing we can do to protect our health, above medication or rest, is prevention. This week, news broke of a new and fatal swine flu on the Mexico-U.S. border. It has quickly turned into a growing outbreak and possible pandemic. Knowing about…
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FlyteComm is a pretty cool way to check flight schedules. Plug in an airline and flight number, and you get a display with a graphic showing the plane’s current estimated position, overlaid on a weather map (in this case of the US). Why am I checking on a Saturday? Oh, well, never mind. I’m a geek that way. Here’s another example, we flew on American’s “daylighter” flight from Chicago to London last August. It departs in the morning, and arrives that night, so you go straight to your hotel and to bed rather than trying to stay awake all day…
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Daily Episcopalian: Covenant Really Dar in Disguise? (tags: Anglican schism OldBoysClub) AirTran CEO: Carrier can continue to be profitable – USATODAY.com (tags: Travel AirTran) FAA Releases Records On Aircraft Bird Strikes : NPR (tags: Travel Delta) Church Times – Covenant is to be used as litmus test of Anglicanism Featuring the "spectacularly uninformed former Archbishop, Lord Meddler Carey. (tags: anglican schism OldBoysClub) The Lead: ACI Emails and Church Times Interesting comment: "George Carey is Margaret Thatcher's revenge on Anglicanism. " (tags: anglican schism) BBC NEWS | Americas | Reviving the once-mighty railroad (tags: travel Rail Seattle)
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Your Morning Dose of Cuteness/Technophobia – Boing Boing Need to write a new lyric to the classic camp song… "we feed the baby onions, so we can find 'er in the dark" becomes "we bred flourescent puppies, so we can walk 'em in the dark" (tags: ToDo) As Global Recession Deepens, IMF's Profile Rises : NPR (tags: travel) Christian fundamentalists hijack Singaporean feminist group – Boing Boing Focus on the Family involved; the US may be fallow ground in the future so it's time to offshore the holdning action. (tags: Singapore Feminists Fundamentalism Hijack) Apple pulls plug on 'Baby Shaker'…
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Hymn for ANZAC Day | Liturgy (tags: anglican peace War) Build-a-missionary bear (tags: OnlyInUtah)
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Don’t Make Us Send Some Ridiculously Large Number of Packages of Nerds Candy to NBC Headquarters! Yes, I’m a nerd. A proud nerd. I like to watch shows nerds watch. So does my husband. And we like to spend money on things nerds like. We would buy a DVD set of “Chuck” should one become available. We (mkay, I) would buy a Jeffster t-shirt. We buy many products that are product-placed on “Chuck” already, but when we see them, we don’t groan with dismay, but chuckle (get it? WE CHUCKLE) because the placements are both clever and relevant to the…
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We lead such an exciting, glamorous life. My husband David and I planned a few weeks ago to take last Friday off and drive down to visit a niece of ours that lives in south-central Illinois. We visit her periodically because she lives a long way from home, and we don’t get to see her very often if we wait for her occasional visits “home” for birthdays and holidays. We think these visits are important for emotional well-being, both hers, and ours. She’s always happy to see us, and we feel happy and sad for her at the same time.…
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Now I’m wide awake and watching the SciFi Channel’s miniseries, ‘Knights of Bloodsteel’ The four-hour, two-part movie tells the tale of Mirabilis, a mythical land chock full of humans, elves and goblins in which the only thing of value, apparently, is a magical metal called bloodsteel. What little remains is controlled by the awful and horrible Dragon Eye (Mark Gibbon), a monster so ridiculously hideous he looks like he was drafted from a later episode of “The Power Rangers.” There is, as luck would have it, a magic crucible that produces vast quantities of bloodsteel. To ensure that Dragon Eye…
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NYT: Twitters From Texas Gail Collins brings up a few points regarding Texas tea partier Gov. Rick Perry. (tags: Republican RhetoricOfFailure) BBC NEWS | Entertainment | How Susan Boyle won over the world "the sisterhood of the plain" (tags: Dream Beautiful)