Another kind of Iridium Flare

2009-02-11 Thread Matt Grimaldi
A satellite owned by the US company Iridium hit a defunct Russian satellite at high speed nearly 780km (485 miles) over Siberia on Tuesday, Nasa said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7885051.stm -- Matt ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/

TwURLed News - Social Media starting beta test

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
I've been working on the first of some "vertical" versions of TwURLed News (formerly Tweetsnet), my site that uses social network analysis to find web pages being cited on Twitter. It is essentially a predictive analysis - it finds people who tended to be among the first to cite pages that became

Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-11 Thread Jo Anne
Doug -- what a fascinating account! I think your brother-in-law ought to write a book. So few of us ever experience that kind of thing. Freight trains certainly get a bad rap in the noise department. The Engineer's brother and his gf were in the path of Ike. They were in the eye for somewhere

Weekly Chat Reminder

2009-02-11 Thread William T Goodall
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of regulars over the

Re: Darwinism

2009-02-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
William T Goodall wrote: > > With the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of > _The Origin of Species_ this year there's been a lot of news > coverage lately on 'Darwinism', and with the politicisation of the > subject by religionists and the misdirection favoured by tho

Re: Darwinism

2009-02-11 Thread Charlie Bell
On 11/02/2009, at 12:14 PM, Max Battcher wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: >> in _The New York Times_ 'Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May >> Live' is an example. >> >> Scientists don't talk about "Darwinism", creationists do. > > I can't think of a recent example by just about anyone of th