Northern California nurtures a wealth of blue and purple blossoms (a phenomena that has led me in fruitless queries for some geographical or meteorological explanation), but my favorite is the Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans).
A migrant from the Portuguese island of Madeira off the coast of NW Africa, once a specimen establishes itself, the [...]

The salmon population in the Pacific of the Wester U. S. is so decimated the Pacific Fishery Management Council has enacted a complete ban on all commercial and recreational chinook fishing.
This is not something that has happened before, ever. Since humans have lived in North America there have always been massive populations of chinook [...]

If someone ever told me they have a photoshop face, I’d say “I know exactly what you mean!”
Somehow my face is frequently and inexplicably used, retouched, morphed, edited and re-represented for reasons beyond me. Recently a photo of me ended up being used along an article on how to become a police detective (it [...]

Scott Beale (via twitter of naturally), pointed me to a new cartoon by Hugh MacLeod that sums up the affect twitter has had on the method of message posting on the web since the year 2000.

Blogging (née web logging) was a phenomena that took hold after the turn of this century where people would compose [...]