A few months ago I was contacted by a person I didn’t know (but vaguely knew of) about being on a panel to discuss evolutionary biology and blogging and so on. Her name was Carrie Iwan. In fact, I think that still is her name.

We had a number of professional and pleasant interactions via email, as she organized a fairly large scale affair. Sometimes when you plan an event, all the work is in the planning, and little needs to be done when things are underway … it runs itself. This event, however, required continued and constant attention and Carrie managed a plethora of volunteers and participants and made sure everything came off like it was supposed to and better.

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This is crazy shit, man.

The Heil Hitler Lady who “believes in Biblical values”, proves that she is a moron:

Hat Tip Kristine, who has quite a bit more on her post at Amused Muse.

Dear Rachel,

Apropos this story:

Rachel, you know I love you, but I have to tell you that you must have your staff put a little more effort into the details of reporting these vitally important stories. In Minneapolis, we (and when I say “we” I mean “they”) have been doing this fancy bike thing forever. This is the main recreational activity of our famous anarchists, as a matter of fact. Here are a couple of examples:
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A TEENAGER who posted a death threat on Facebook has become the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site.

It appears that Keeley Houghton is a bully in real life, and has been bullying one Emily Moore for a few years. In fact, this is her third conviction. She recently reified this behavior on her facebook account and that seems to have been the evidence that put this behavior over the top in this latest round, in the eyes of British Law.

This is not too surprising … that there are teenage bullies and that they do stoopid-shit ™ on the Internet.

What this does demonstrate is that in at least one legal system there may be no special lenience for being an asshole on the internet as opposed to in real life. This case is complicated because the perpetrator was an asshole in both contexts.

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What the heck is that? Who cares!?!? Just go look at the totally rad graphics Matt has invented out of pure theory.