I’m at a professional training on web 2.0 in libraries, and the point was made that blogging (and other 2.0ish type deals) are interactive, a back and forth conversation. But I’ve got comments turned off on my blog, and very few people read the posts to begin with. Every new (successful) technology is used to talk to other people. I’m just talking to myself.

But I’m also talking to Craig: Hey! Look at busmonster!

I am linking to this story about 3d video clips of the sun solely so I can say "Coronal mass ejections? Sounds like spring break at Cabo!"
The nine-o’clock show is completely different from the six-o’clock. Try the veal. Tip your waitresses.

Unfortunately, you can’t see the articles without an additional subscription, but you can see Science Magazine’s tables of contents and ads at the back for a whole raft of old issues, going back to 1880! I hope Project Gutenberg gets some of those, too– I only see some Scientific American there right now…

Despite its understandable focus on business, I found this article on how becoming great at anything takes a lot of practice extremely interesting. I was especially struck by the notion of "deliberate practice", and how it’s the only practice that matters when seeking improvement.

West Nile Virus is officially in King County, so it’s time to offload your tire garden and your collection of open-topped rusty barrels. The good news is that bird surveillance pays off. The CDC lets you know how far your DEET budget will go.

Yet still more research into how to do something that will almost certainly be misused. I do wonder whether Flexitral‘s theory would allow them to reduce the "hundreds" of chemicals the olfactograph requires.
Update: poking around Flexitral’s pages led me to this bit of marketing to a narrow audience: "the first carnation aromachemical incorporating a thioether moiety." Finally!

Start counting the days until the episode of Bones based on this event.

Did you know you can volunteer in the airport? How about the emergency room in a busy regional teaching hospital?

Those guys who evaluate how well students in different countries are doing in math and science (you know, the ones where USanians do better than Cyprus. USA! USA!) evaluated the curriculum in the Bellevue Schools. Here are their thoughts.

Article about the odd messing about with body sense that can be done when you poke the brain, with implications for the messing about the brain does on its own.