Finestkind Clinic and fish market

PrinceCaspian/Voyage Dawn Treader

2009-11-30T17:51:00.001+08:00

the BBC TV version of the children's books are here.

Things you might want to know

2009-11-30T14:43:00.002+08:00

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is now on Facebook

slideshow of photos here

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The Hobbit filming is being delayed.

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Last week, I read about the decline of births in Korea...ah, but some are still having children in Korea, notes the NYTimes. Many are from arranged marriages with women from other Asian countries (the Philippines and Viet Nam), and a lot of these marriages are in rural areas to older farmers or farm workers.

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Why do they hate us? It's the Narrative, stupid.
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Book TV discusses Amelia Earhart.

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Craft item of the day

2009-11-30T14:38:00.001+08:00

Pikachu convertible ski mask by =Sugarcoatidli3z on deviant ART

patternlink HERE

Headsup WeeklyTeninouWoman

Hello Kidney!

2009-11-30T13:52:00.002+08:00

(From HelloKittyHell)

Stories below the fold

2009-11-29T09:07:00.003+08:00

District 9 up for an academy award?
Why not? It's about time that a nerd becomes a hero...

FYI: The unimaginative hard headed Boer(Afrikaner) is a stock character in South African comedy.

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NoyNoy says "I'm not autistic".
He's just a nerd, and it's about time an honest nerd becomes president.

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V for Vendetta: The Anthropology of clan feuds in the Philippines.

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From Spiked: Why Malthus is wrong, and his ilk has been wrong for 2000 years.

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The General behind Ben Hur.
Good news: you can watch it on Youtube
Bad News: The Youtube version is the 1925 version

The Evolution of Miss Piggy

2009-11-28T20:43:00.002+08:00

Go to link to see how Miss Piggy has changed her styles over the years.

Manolo for the big girl blog has quotes:

“Never let your frog outdress you.”

Tut's fireball

2009-11-28T13:49:00.003+08:00

You can buy Desert Glass on line; this glass is similar to that used for the scarab found on this pectoral jewelry of King Tut.

But where does desert glass come from?
Nasa explains:As a geologist who had spent most of his career studying the Earth’s major deserts, he knew that the glass formed after a massive meteorite hit the desert with enough energy to splatter chunks of melted sand across the extensive fields where fragments are common today. But beyond the glass, no evidence of such an impact had ever been found...El-Baz sorted through image after image of the Western Desert when he came across a ring of rocks surrounded by traces of an outer ring: the telltale markings of an impact crater...The massive crater measured 31 kilometers across and was large enough to contain 70,000 football fields; the site was a very probable source of the glass.

BBC;s HORIZEN has a MOVIE at you tube

Gift item of the day

2009-11-28T13:00:00.002+08:00

A USB Alien...
"This scary realistic alien toy modeled after the Alien movie series will sporadically stick its glowing red tongue out at you if you plug it into your computer via its USB cable."

via Tokyo Mango:

Musical interlude for the day

2009-11-28T08:36:00.001+08:00

Depressing news of the day

2009-11-28T07:22:00.005+08:00

Philippine Massacre number up to 64....some bodies so badly decomposed that they haven't been identified...backhoe operator missing, presumed killed.
Generals who refused to give security to convoy are fired(replaced by their second in command, duh)
And witnesses who were horrified at what they saw are spilling the beans. They thought they were going to kill the big shot and bodyguards going to register, not a bunch of civilians and reporters not connected with the clan.

The fingers are all pointing to the President, who has allowed lesser murders to go unsolved, resulting in a culture where some presume political murders won't be solved and those behind them prosecuted.
Her connections with the clan behind the murders is well known...

Anyone in Washington notice? Anyone?Anyone?

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Will Swine flu and Bird flu combine to make a new Spanish Flu (1918) pandemic?
Chinese expert worried, saying a lot of deaths being covered up in China...

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TehCreepyThinMan in one discussion board called Avatar Dances with Thundersmurfs

Very few articles on AICN about the movie...This is in contrast with LOTR, where Peter Jackson went out of his way to befriend fansites.

compare contrast: Ten worst movies of the decade.
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JohnBolton was right...
And StPeggy is saying TchTch...
Religious right redux.
well, maybe not religious right: some of the Catholic bishops signing are quite liberal in other social policies.
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Ethics, not science is the problem with climategate.
In science, truth is truth, not the matter of opinion polls. If it can't be replicated, you throw out the theory, not pooh pooh the contradicting data by issuing statements signed by lots of big shots.

and yes, I believe in global warming. Minnesota was under 200 feet of glaciers 12000 years ago.

IN a related item, Computerworld writes about lessons learned about email privacy and identity theft from the incident.
(via Instapundit)