Monthly Archives: January 2007

make of this what you will…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 24, 2007

Tony Perkins seems to be pissed.

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Pick up trucks

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 24, 2007

the wine salesman… the professor… the freeway blogger… the reefer madness… …and Ronni’s repurposed Chevy bed-liner.

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Doing no evil…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 24, 2007

Ginsu Yoon pulls a fast one on Darren Barefoot…. Darren’s “Get a first life” site is brilliant. Thx to Eszter Hargittai for the link.

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“Housemaid to Glory” and promotional endorsements by science celebrities

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 22, 2007

http://www.dervala.net/archives/000875.html The above post has mysteriously disappeared from her main blog, and I am remarking its existence here mainly because it made me feel so good to be called “the lovely Frank Paynter” and I would hate to lose sight of the sentiment. I visited Science Blogs tonight and there was Frank Wilczek in a [...]

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Slogging…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 21, 2007

Maybe I’m just tired from shoveling snow, or maybe the chemical goo I’m smearing on my arms twice a day in an effort to quash a little mild skin cancer has got me down. Feels like I’m cracking peanuts with a pile driver. The problem with Listics lately (among others I’m sure) is the lack [...]

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Happy Birthday Jon Husband

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 20, 2007

Belated Birthday greetings to the Wirearchy man.

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Credulity

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 20, 2007

I think that people expect what they hear in “the news” to be true. Sadly, reporters also seem to think that what they hear from their sources is true. Bill Moyers in his NCMR2007 keynote said, “I can’t tell you again how many reporters have told me that it just never occurred to them that [...]

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Free like in beer, precious beyond understanding

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 19, 2007

via NYT A diverse group of musicians gathers this weekend to pay tribute to the Dead’s two eureka albums from 1970. Performing songs from “Workingman’s Dead” tomorrow are the Klezmatics, Ollabelle, the Holmes Brothers, Jim Lauderdale, Larry Campbell and Tim O’Reagan of the Jayhawks. Playing from “American Beauty” on Sunday are Mark Eitzel, Jay Farrar, [...]

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