The Almost Seven Wonders files
We’re getting a bunch of new visitors of late, so if you’re unfamiliar with Friday pudublogging, you might want to click on "Pudu" in the main menu (or just click here) and scroll around, enjoying the numerous cool species we’re fond of here.
I’ve been busy, so this week, let’s look back at the South African rock hyraxes I photographed on Table Mountain a while back:
These are not to be confused with their distant relative, the jazz hyrax:
I’ve updated the Extras page to include stuff left out of the book as far as Chapter Three, including, among other tidbits:
Page 12: "Merv" is also a city along the Silk Road in Turkmenistan. Nobody told me this in school, but in the 12th century, Merv was the biggest city on earth.
More to come. Of course, some tidbits will only make sense if you buy the book, but most should be fun by themselves. Enjoy!
Here’s a big shock: O’Reilly again.
A skeptical federal law enforcement official contacted Radar this morning: "I’m not aware of any FBI agents warning anyone
at Fox News of their presence on any list…"
Via Raw Story.
Consider the following in tandem:
Lie by Lie, Mother Jones’s flash-interactive chronicle of deception in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and
No One Dares to Help, a harrowing first-person account published by the L.A. Times of what life has become in Baghdad, where merely helping a dying stranger can now mean your own death sentence.
Consider the following in tandem:
Lie by Lie, Mother Jones’s flash-interactive chronicle of deception in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and
No One Dares to Help, a harrowing first-person account published by the L.A. Times of what life has become in Baghdad, where merely helping a dying stranger can now mean your own death sentence.