Daily Archives: March 14th, 2007

It’s Pi Day!

It’s 3.14 (march 14th), which is Pi day!

I found this amazing pie at Neatorama.  It is also, apparently, Steak and Blow Job Day, but I’m not going to post any photos for that.

Wishing

Man, I would really, really love to apply for one of the jobs at the Invertebrate Conservation Trust currently open. Alas, I’m not a freshwater entomologist, so my chances are very slim. (*sighs*)
The UK is awesome–they even have a National Insect Week!
We had some lovely 65F weather here, and there were a few caddisflies out [...]

Americans getting meaner

This is almost too depressing to post, except it seems really spot on to me. From “Remapping the culture debate“:
“Looking at the data from 1992 to 2004, Shellenberger and Nordhaus found a country whose citizens are increasingly authoritarian while at the same time feeling evermore adrift, isolated, and nihilistic. They found a society at once [...]