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Uncontacted Amazonian tribe "captured" on film. Story and pictures HERE.

Word of the Day: niskin

Niskin, n.
Oceanogr.

I. attrib.

1. Designating any of various types of seawater sampling bottle which can be opened by remote control from the surface and which are often used in conjunction with electronic probes for in situ measurement of water temperature, pressure, etc.; esp. in Niskin bottle.

1965 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 10 547 The differences in particulate carbonate values between surface bucket and surface Niskin bottle samples are more striking than the differences in organic carbon. 1968 [...].

II. absol.

2. A Niskin bottle.

1992 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 14 920 The correlation coefficient..was lower for the SIPS-Niskin comparison than for the SIPS-pump comparison. [...].

Food Storage reminder

Many members of the Church are aware of the frequent reminders of the leaders to the membership of the counsel to set aside food and other supplies so that there may be resources available in times of need. (For a biblical example, think of Joseph's interpretation of the Pharaoh's dream of the 7 fat kine and the 7 sickly kine).

Check out THIS ARTICLE from the Wall Street Journal. Does it take a "business figure" to tell you this to start doing it? Are you glad for the foresight offered by leaders of the Church?

Food Storage... what's in your basement?

[shh!] CNN Catches on...

In a response (finally!) to what has been going on for weeks now, CNN investigates the "Rick Roll" phenomenon and gives us their two-cents HERE.

If you haven't been Rick Roll'ed, your friends must be behind the times, too.

Other "Roll" versions have popped up... here's a few samples

Live Roll?


UPDATED -- Liverpool Remix?


Fresh Roll?


Tay Roll?


Sonic Roll?


Brian Roll?


Link Roll?


Yoda Roll?


EVERYTHING?

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attempted my first Jott-to-phone-to-email-to-blog post... so the punctuation is a little off, but otherwise it took down the words.

i'll have to learn how to talk to Jott. I didn't have a script beforehand, and in my attempt to speak clearly I think I sound a little slow...

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Blog Tweaks

I discovered (after removing various "gadgets" from my page) that it wasn't what I thought slowing down my page -- it was the "Be Cool -- Subscribe" gadget that had embedded drop-down list for you to add my blog's RSS feed to the reader of your choice. Take that away and -- voila! -- it loads fast again. Just because it's gone doesn't mean that you shouldn't subscribe, though... put that free Reader to use and get automatically updated when I add a post.

So, I've been exploring the draft.blogger.com website and expirementing with different gadgets that are available in this beta version of Google's Blogger. I found some really cool things, but I decided that they made my page load too slowly. I may add them back if I can figure out how to streamline the loading a little bit. Here's an interesting one, though:

CQ Politics: Political Toolkit
It pulls from their website links to information like: an election map for 2008 for every district and state; poll tracker; CQ primary guide; "Races to Watch" -- House, Senate, Governor.

Not sure why I didn't know about this website before... but the tool was cool, but (seemed) slow (to me). Check it out, you political junkies...