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Henry Gee
I loaded a video from iMovie to YouTube. No luck. I loaded a modified version (no copyright music). iMovie swears it's pubished to YouTube. But no sign of it on YouTube almost 24h later. I think YouTube hates me.
@cromercrox. I would humbly, yes, humbly suggest heading to either http://www.vimeo.com/ or http://www.divshare.com/ instead. - Graham Steel
I tried Vimeo, but even after 9hrs my humble video, less than a minute long, only a Meg, still hadn't loaded. Ho hum. So I aborted. Dr Henry Gee Senior Editor (Biological Sciences) nature@nature.com http://www.nature.com/nature See Nature's new guide to authors at www.nature.com/nature/submit - Henry Gee from email
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Am now making shelf for snake terrarium, over table I made for aquarium. The things we do for our pets.
watch the snakes don't suffer from the fallout from the tactical nukes aimed at the fishes - Christina Pikas
Snakes are indestructible, as any fule kno - Henry Gee from email
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Have made aquarium table from old door frame, bits of ply and other junk. Should withstand tactical nuclear strike.
Why does your aquarium need a table? Do the fish like to sit down to eat their dinner? - Frank Norman
That's a good point, Frank. This would/wood appear to tie in with Henry's new band, 'SofaGuru'. - Graham Steel
i think maybe his fish have made some very powerful enemies - ones who might try to take them out with tactical nukes - Christina Pikas
That's definately an unmistakable possibility, Christina. We're talking BIG fish however. According (at least) to Google's street view of Maison Des Girrafes, Cromer, I get this:- http://is.gd/2VwBn - Graham Steel
You are all extremely silly people, and I love you all. - Henry Gee from email
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I seem to have joined a rather good blues band called Soga Guru. Drummer required.
"Drummer required". That brings back memories :). Isn't that the single most common band need? - Deepak Singh
Indeed. I saw the drummer-wanted ad and asked if they'd like a keyboard player too... - Henry Gee from email
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is totally fucked off hearing everyone's orgasmic reactions to GoogleWave without ever, once, having anyone say what it actually is.
It's like people going on and on about a party that we were not invited to! I watched about half of the video here: http://wave.google.com/. How email would be designed if it was invented now... You probably have heard all about it now... - Bronwen Dekker
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Basically, I'm just sore I didn't get to go to SciFoo. - Henry Gee
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re: FRRS, there's a clue here:- http://www.norfolkrailwaysocie... Station friends make their mark Anglia Railways’ “Adopt a Station” scheme is starting to bear fruit. Following requests from adopters, litter bins will be installed as a trial at some unstaffed stations. At Halesworth a grant has been won from Suffolk County Council to install a new bench on the... more... - Graham Steel
My Thanks Dr Watson! - Henry Gee from email
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Cripes, this story made me feel OLD - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Henry, you (we) ARE old. *dodders off mumbling into his beard* - Bill Hooker
"I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser..." That's my favourite, but the whole thing is full of little gems like that. - Bill Hooker
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Michael Jackson: It would be wrong to sneer at this outpouring of public grief - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...
The great BoJo hits nail on head - again. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
So now we know - crop circles are created by stoned wallabies. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Hilarious! - Clare Dudman
Graham Steel
Ahoy there CISB'09 shipmates. No sign of the film as yet but I'll hopefully provide an update soon. In the meantime, here's an audio clip of the closing titles sequence, played so illustriously by Dr Gee:- http://www.divshare.com/downloa...
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OOOOO ARRRRRRR!!!!! - Henry Gee
You silly twisted boy. - Bob O'Hara
Accordion says, "E Major"...... - Graham Steel
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BBC NEWS | UK | MoD names dead British soldiers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
I know the parents of one of these soldiers. Really brings it home... - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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Die Wissenschaft bei Tolkien: Henry Gee, Marcel Bülles: Amazon.de: Bücher - http://www.amazon.de/Die-Wis...
The Science of Middle-earth, now auf Deutsch, translated by the incomparable Marcel Buelles - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown apology over MPs' expenses - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Adds new meaning to the phrase 'fiddling while Rome burns' - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Joe Dunckley
In which London can be a not fun place to live sometimes - http://www.cotch.net/blog...
The problem is not London but this fucking totalitarian government. - Henry Gee
i got called a "sanctimonious cunt" before breakfast. awesome. - Joe Dunckley
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It's not women David Cameron needs in his team: it's talent :: Janet Daley - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/janet_d...
"I don't give a flying fig about the reproductive plumbing of Mr Cameron's economic advisers ... this is the province of Harriet Harman and that army of Labour women whose enforced recruitment into safe parliamentary seats has done so much to set back the cause of female political participation." - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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Evening News 24 - Beach bans on dogs spark anger - http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content...
As if this bloody awful government weren't enough, they have a bill that would stop me walking my dog on the beach. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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Evolution News & Views: Fossils Don't Lie: Why Darwinism Is False - http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009...
In which the Creationists are still wilfully misunderstanding me despite my explicit rebuttal of this heinous practice. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Sue them for misprepresentation? - Cameron Neylon
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BBC NEWS | Politics | Plan to monitor all internet use - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Now, who says that Britian is not becoming a police state? - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Yikes! I had to check that this article wasn't published 26 days too late. Do they even know that it's not possible to do what they intend? - Mr. Gunn
Is it not possible? Do let me know in case I decide to blog on this - thanks - Henry Gee
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This moribund Government has returned to its miserable youth - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment...
BoJo says it better than I ever could. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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This moribund Government has returned to its miserable youth - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment...
BoJo says it better than I ever could. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Chocolate study volunteers wanted - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
HT Mrs Cromercrox - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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BBC NEWS | Politics | Darling unveils 50% top tax rate - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
What with Britain up against it financially, you'd have thought that McBroon's sock puppet would have used today's budget as an opportunity to encourage flexible and remote working, thus stimulating the regional economy, opening up employment opportunities and reducing carbon emissions in one. But no - it was all about 50% tax bands for those earning above £150k, the effect of which will earn the government a little more than £1bn when it has already borrowed 170 times that much. How chippy. How typically fucking socialist. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ancestor of T rex found in China - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
How long, O Lord, how long will it be before journalists stop talking about 'ancestors' and (cough spew choke) 'missing links'? - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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Neurotopia : Friday Weird Science: For Men, It Really IS The Size That Counts - http://scienceblogs.com/neuroto...
I had trouble reading the tiny print, though. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Bora Zivkovic
Hmmm, what should the 'big, thoughtful, comprehensive' blog post of the week be about?
TWITTER! - Steven Perez
OMG, again?! That was last week. - Bora Zivkovic
Mangoes, bacon and lolcats...Or alternatively how awesome Rahsheen is. - Alex Scoble
Some choices: a) power relationships online (as seen at ScienceOnline'09), b) why Dunbar Number is not appropriate for analysis of online relationships, c) a cool new paper on circadian rhythms in harvester ants. Anything else? - Bora Zivkovic
Mangoes I don't have an opinion on. Bacon I love. LOLcats excite me. Rahsheen is always awesome but exceeded himself with awesomeness this week. But can I really say something original about it? - Bora Zivkovic
Hmm, twitter? I guess you could propose that all scientific publishing be done through twitter? - j1m
Talk about wine then. - Alex Scoble
Frankly, I'm sick of twitter this week - perhaps indefinitely! so anything but twitter - Neil Saunders
If I do b) I may have to mention Twitter, at least as an aside. But I am myself sick of talking about it, and want something fresh this week. Also feel I don't have much to add to my monumentally long post from 2 wks ago about blogging vs. journalism (including science journalism) so that is on Pause as well this week. - Bora Zivkovic
CILANTRO! And why some otherwise awesome people are big fat poopyheads because they do not understand this awesome herb. - Steven Perez
Cilantro is interesting. I love it. But there are people who cannot stand it. Question is why: is it cultural (did not grow up with it so do not like taste when tried as adults) or is it physiological (their taste receptors are different and they taste cilantro as really awful). Will have to dig into the literature to see if there is anything about this.... - Bora Zivkovic
Reminders - Last week, a two-fer: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... and http://scienceblogs.com/clock... The week before: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... I also do a "Best of the Month" post every month where one can see the links to the best stuff: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic
What do you mean by power relationships online? - Martin Fenner
How the Web disrupts the existing power relationships (in various areas of science: academia, publishing, education, global science), usually democratizing, but sometimes replacing an old power structure with a new power structure. I am looking forward to thoughts and examples of this. Really a follow-up on my "shock value of science blogs" post: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic
I would be very interested in a blog post about power relationships in Science 2.0. Especially how we can avoid to create new power structures with the same problems and dangers as the old system. I very much liked how you trie to avoid some of these mistakes when organizing the ScienceOnline meeting. - Martin Fenner
I'll give it a try - it will be a raw draft and I hope commenters and bloggers pick it apart and add more light to the topic. - Bora Zivkovic
Thanks Bora, I'm looking forward to this. - Martin Fenner
Excellent, I was having trouble choosing between power relationships and harvester ants; now I don't have to. (Can I have harvester ants next week?) - Bill Hooker
Girrafes on unicycles - Henry Gee
What are the power structures like if harvester ant colonies? Oh, I know, it depends on what time of day it is. - Bob O'Hara
The recent JAMA / BMJ episode about disclosing conflicts of interests by paper authors contains material for the power relationship topic: http://blogs.wsj.com/health... - Martin Fenner
The Google Book settlement. There is a deadline of May 5 for relevant organizations to express opposition - Adina Levin
Pandas and their influence on culture from Lost to Adventureland to diplomacy between superpowers - RAPatton
Ha! RAPatton. Perhaps folks from http://pandagon.net/ and http://pandasthumb.org/ know more about it. Certainly Professor Steve Steve http://pandasthumb.org/archive... is an international globe-trotting ambassador of Reason! - Bora Zivkovic
OK, here it is - Web and Power (in science): http://scienceblogs.com/clock... Just a beginning: observing the changes, but not yet having any idea how to prevent a replacement of old power structures by new power structures. Thoughts? - Bora Zivkovic
There is only one person in the world with sufficient expertise to write about girrafes on unicycles! So, harvester ants next, perhaps during the week, then Dumbar Number next weekend unless something exciting comes up in the meantime.... - Bora Zivkovic
Noah Gray
Op-Ed Columnist - When Nature Calls - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Man has "bathroom emergency" at 32,000 feet and finds the aisle blocked with the beverage cart!! In a panic, he attempts to use the business class lavatory, but is interfered with by a flight attendant. He is now charged with a felony for twisting her arm in order to make it into the bathroom. Is this really the country in which I live? - Noah Gray
Felony, no, but he does need a smacking. Who assaults a flight attendant? Just piss on the floor instead -- as soon as you whip it out they will let you use the can anyway. - Bill Hooker
I think his problem was more pressing than simple urination. There was a mention of Honduran food in there somewhere... - Noah Gray
Instead of grabbing the attendant he should have told her, politely but LOUDLY, of his predicament and asked her to move aside else he shat himself in the aisle where he stood. - Henry Gee
My way is more fun, but Henry's will keep you out of jail. - Bill Hooker
I have found that if you pretend to have ebola with blood coming out of everywhere, they will let you use the bathroom in business/first class - Jonathan Eisen
I should think they'd be more likely to shove you out of the nearest exit door! - Bill Hooker
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Henry is in his Podule reading manuscripts on his ancient Dell Dimension 2300 running IE7. On the other hand, I might use my Dell Inspiron 6400 runningFirefox, or ancient iMac running Safari on OS 10.3.9. Or posibly my Asus Eee. If I reject any, will people blame the system I'm using? If not, why not? They do it if I use my iPhone.
Brilliant, next time I'm rejected from Nature I will complain about the non-transparent process and demand to be rejected via an open-source browser! - Cameron Neylon
Hahahahaha! :) - Henry Gee
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Longtime Nature editor John Maddox dead at 83: Scientific American Blog - http://www.sciam.com/blog...
I'd like to 'like' this but that would give the wrong impression. There should be a 'sympathy' or similar button. - Richard P Grant
Happy birthday, Richard. With each one that passes, the closer you are to John Maddox. That's a sobering thought, isn't it? - Henry Gee
How strange. Did you notice that the SciAm article was penned by BBC's footie pundit, John Moston !!! - Graham Steel
Thanks Henry. But you're nearer than I am. - Richard P Grant
Nice one, Bill. - Mr. Gunn
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | 10 ways to beat the blues? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Comment #5 is best. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
Yep, I agree with that one. if nothing else, the cat feels better. - Bob O'Hara
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BBC NEWS | UK | Tony Blair's faith in new mission - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
If there is one thing that's likely to make me want to throw up, this is it. - Henry Gee from Bookmarklet
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