Many years ago, some friends of mine did one of the all-time great April Fool’s jokes. (Note to readers. It was a joke. A hoax.) They buried a cast of a fossil dinosaur and a fossil human, and staged and documented an elaborate excavation. (Note to readers: the fossils were fake.) The “scientists” doing the …
Sometimes it’s not the main story but the sidebars that really deliver the goods: Telstra says it may have to install temporary mobile phone towers in Sydney’s west to replace ones which were damaged overnight when a man went on a rampage in a restored army tank. (Via Malcolm)
Belshaw captures well a certain strangeness about our current governance: This isn’t a liberal or conservative thing. It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a loon thing. Where did these people come from?
Alan Johnston is free.
From the Melbourne Herald Sun, Mills Looks to End Drought: Australian golfer Joanne Mills is confident she can win her first European title in 10 years, as she heads into the final round of the Ladies Open de Portugal. Fun with Google News.
Stopped on my bike at a red light this morning, a scooter pulls up behind me. I glance over my shoulder and smile in greeting at an elderly couple – perhaps 70 – both in shorts. As they speed past me when the light turns green, I notice that the woman, sitting on the back, …
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Jim Belshaw on walking into his house upon discovering that his old Datsun pickup had been stolen: Here’s the worst part: As I rushed back into the house to tell Liz, I couldn’t stop thinking that this was going to make a good column. Once again, Philip Roth came to mind. He said nothing that …
paper of the day: From Jia-Lin Lin at the Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder, more evidence that the models don’t get El Nino right real climate: From the Climate Prediction Center: La Nina’s roaring back real climate II: I saw on yesterday’s bike ride that the Rio Grande is back down, under 1,300 cubic feet …