February events

Horticultural Skin Art

Animal X
I really need to see about doing a show like Animal X, only with flora instead of fauna. There's simply not enough work being done on tracking down the elusive Pink Bunkerdoo.

A quick gasp of air
Continued radio silence for the rest of this week and most of next, but a quick Bloop thanks to la_azteca: nine weed species in the United States now have confirmed resistance to the pesticide glyphosate, better known under the

Plants have a social life
At the Day Job, I was just given a BIG project, one that will not only take priority over everything else I have on my plate, but one that will pretty much keep me close to complete radio silence for the next three weeks or so. No, I can't talk about it, and no, there's nothing anybody can do to help. Thanks, though. It will preclude my little bits of taking a quick break and sharing interesting stories with all of you. Sorry.As a parting gift, though, I'm not going to dwell on the personal insanity, such as the guy who nearly killed me last night when he sideswiped me while I was biking to the train station. Instead, we're going to look at the awe and wonder in the

I'm living in my own private Tanelorn
Hey, Czarina! Guess what? Thanks to a particularly badly worded amendment to the Texas State Constitution, we're still living in sin! You up for another 50 years or so of shacking up?

From the Maker Shed
While I have to say that the MintyBoost USB Charger Kit currently being offered by Make magazine is probably a poster child in my ever-expanding list of "Reasons I Love Living In The Future", I have to admit that the Microbe Motel culturing kit is what caught my eye. When I was five, I remember a commercially available science kit much like this, but it was intended to allow experiments in growing seeds in petri dishes instead of just molds and bacteria cultures. A little bit of modification, a steri