Notes:

Latest blog posts from Amygdala

DOGFISH BEER. More than you may wish to know about making extreme and unusual beers.Pay attention to the wood of the barrel! [...] On the trip in question, he had noticed that the local wood-carvers often used a variety called palo santo, or holy wood. It was so heavy that it sank in water, so...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published a day ago


HOSSEIN DERAKSHAN. I sure hope he'll be okay. [...] A Web site affiliated with the Iranian Intelligence Ministry has reported that a high-profile blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, was also arrested this month and accused of spying for Israel. Judiciary officials have not confirmed his arrest but the...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published a week ago


A MAMMOTH IDEA. Pay not attention to the caveats here! I want my mammoth! Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 2 weeks ago


100% BASED ON PROFESSIONALISM. Iraq is sure to succeed if it's just corrupt enough. The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 2 weeks ago


DEPARTMENT OF CEILINGS. Another one gone in the Army: The Army yesterday promoted the first woman ever to attain the rank of four-star general in the U.S. military, Gen. Ann Dunwoody, a long-awaited step that senior officers described as breaking a "brass ceiling."Secretary of Defense Robert M....
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 2 weeks ago


I'VE LIVED IN APARTMENTS ONLY SLIGHTLY LARGER. New planetary rover design: This one would give more space to stretch out in, though. (Robot not included.)Read The Rest Scale: 2.75 out of 5.
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 2 weeks ago


O RLY? Fifty things you may not know about Barack Obama: [...] He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics [...]He has read every Harry Potter book [...]He uses an Apple Mac laptop [...]His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire. Trivial nitpick: that's...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 2 weeks ago


THE MAYBERRY SOLUTION TO RICHARD NIXON. Ron Howard, fresh from directing the movie of Frost/Nixon, gives it here: [...] And there’s no Richard Nixon in Mayberry.No. If there had been, Andy would have taken him fishing and talked to him logically and made him feel so badly about what he’d...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 3 weeks ago


HELP ME, OBI-WAN BLITZER. I didn't see any of CNN's election night coverage, or, in fact, just about any of their election coverage; I'm partial to C-Span and PBS, and then maybe the Old Networks. But this speaks for itself: More about the holograms here. Read The Rest Scale: 2.5 out of 5 for...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 3 weeks ago


THE TERRIST PAL SPEAKS. Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Ayers. [...] One night, Ayers recalled, he and Dohrn were watching Bill O’Reilly, who was going on about “discovering” Ayers’s 1974 manifesto, “Prairie Fire.” “I had to laugh,” Ayers said. “No one read it when it was first...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 3 weeks ago


THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO. Right-wing bloggers applauding President Obama's authority to snatch up anyone in America and declare them an "enemy combatant." Health care for all.I'll settle for the second, though. That whole "go to the ER" thing doesn't work very well.And because this is such...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 3 weeks ago


ALL BUT EXTINCT. Steve Schmidt, McCain's chief strategist, suddenly gets honest.Ana Marie Cox got the quotes, via email: [...] When did you know it was over?The moment that I will look back at as the moment deep in my gut that I knew, was September 29, when I was flying on a plane with Governor...
Click here to read more at Amygdala...
Published 3 weeks ago