At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order, that so I may have my office in an orderly condition. I took much pains in sorting and folding of papers.
I really need to do that. But it’s such a nice warm day, the bicycle beckons.
Stuff Written Elsewhere by Me and Others
For the New Mexico audience, why, despite your perfectly reasonable decision to shop for fenders for the bike, the drought’s not really over. (The story was written by Tania Soussan and myself – byline on the web version of the story is wrong.)
Cabbages and Kings
Looks like a fun new science blog.
What’s Wrong With Political Blogging
Via Kevin Drum, an interesting study using network analysis of political blogs – who links to what, and what they talk about.
One of the most interesting findings is that the liberal bloggers are more likely to talk about Donald Rumsfeld, and the conservatives are more likely to talk about Michael Moore. In other words, a big part of the discourse in one’s political tribe involves complaining about the other tribe.
This seems to me to be a less than healthy mode of discourse. Listen to Al Franken or Rush Limbaugh and you’ll see what I mean.
Screen Doors of Albuquerque
Inspired by the Brittlebush Collection, we greet spring with the work of the lovely and talented L. Heineman:
And the South Will Rise Again
Opium Den
Nitrous oxide at the dentist’s office. It’s almost enough to make one want to not floss. Almost.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Larry’s Lookout
Spirit has made it to Larry’s lookout. (The “Larry” is Larry Crumpler, Albuquerque’s man on Mars, in a manner of speaking.)
Bots vs. Humans
I don’t know about reliable statistics, but here’s my anecdote: the top three user agents requesting files from inkstain this month self-report as bots:
The bots seem to account for at least 30 percent of the file requests received by inkstain. I’m getting an average of 95 hits per day on my robots.txt file.
I’m not complaining here. Many of the bot requests are coming from RSS aggregators, which means there are human readers on the other end of the process. And I adore the way the search engines have made the web so much more usable. Just more of an observation.