!(inset)http://static.flickr.com/118/277701226_8eb55a7005_m.jpg! Today — or tomorrow, depending on how you choose to count — is Samhain, one of the more important holidays for a variety of pagans. We are not doing anything particularly interesting to mark the event this year. We have a new bed, but that’s more a trick of timing than anything else.
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Just in time for halloween comes this “back-of-the-napkin math”:http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2006/10/so-what-about-chupacabra.html disguised as academic paper proving there are no vampires:
bq. Let us assume that a vampire need feed only once a month. This is certainly a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film. Now two things happen when a vampire feeds. The human population decreases by [...]

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I have spent the last four hours roasting peppers, roasting corn, and making stew. Once it is done, the Elf and I are going to turn down the lights, turn off the phone, and watch The Matrix accompanied by the Mike Nelson / Kevin Murphy riff track. I think that’s about as close to idyllic [...]

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The remaining two unguessed lyrics from last week “now have answers”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/10/20/guess-ten-two-weeks/, something I’m not very good at doing. “Fred”:http://www.unreality.net/weblog/fishes.html got two and “Karan”:http://www.flummel.com/ee got two; “M E-L”:http://www.triptronix.net/ishbadiddle, Rebel Squirrel, “Shaun”:http://upper-left.blogspot.com/, and “Jess”:http://wiw.org/~jess/ got one each. Shaun was smart enough to know the _original_ artist and not the eleventy-dozen acts that covered “Kick out the Jams.”
Again: [...]

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And you thought red-state, blue-state was bad; the swamp that is currently the web accessibility debate is just about enough to make me want to give it _all_ up and code in Flash. “Yer honor, I _woulda_ complied with the ADA but everyone was too busy calling each other names to explain how.”
Recently, Roger Johansson [...]

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