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Should I make the switch to a wordpress blog?

Anybody have anything bad to say about Wordpress? Are there better options out there? Advise please!

Vampire Power Loss

Damn, I always get sucked into posting these things from Treehugger... Their posts are right on and provide so much useful information.. So:

Do YOU know what vampire power loss is?

Now we all know that electronic devices vary in their energy efficiency. Some things just cost more to run. Did you know that in addition to their energy consumption while being used, most devices suck electricity when even when they are off.. Completly off...

Here is a nice chart listing the vampirey attributes of devices that we all (er, many of us have). I always wanted to have a plasma screen TV, but man, they are real vampires..


Great news is that there are devices (special garlic scented power strips) that kil vampires dead. Like a steak through the heart- use they to reclaim your devices (and save a ton of $$$ too).

UC Berkeley Job Announcement: Experimental Population Genetics

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Department of Integrative Biology

Faculty Position in Experimental Population Genetics

Position ID #1213

The Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is seeking a scientist for a tenure-track position (Assistant Professor) in experimental population genetics.
We seek a colleague to join a department with a strong multidisciplinary emphasis and to help the Berkeley campus strengthen its program in evolutionary biology and population genetics. We seek applicants with a Ph.D. or equivalent advanced degree and an exceptional research record in experimental studies with plants, animals or microbes of phenotypic variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, coevolution or other areas of evolutionary genetics. Candidates will be required to contribute to our undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in population genetics, general genetics, and evolutionary biology.

Interested applicants should send their CV, including a bibliography of published work, a brief description of research accomplishments and objectives, a statement of teaching interests, selected reprints, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to:


Chair, Experimental Population Genetics Search Committee
Department of Integrative Biology
3060 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 USA

or electronically to: http://gold.ls.berkeley.edu:80/sReg.php?i=96 (electronic submission of PDF files preferred)

Applications and supporting letters must be received electronically or postmarked by December 31, 2007. Review of application will begin January 2, 2008.

Applicants should refer their reviewers to the UC Berkeley Statement of Confidentiality at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Oekologie #12

Welcome everybody to the 12th installment of Oekologie- a blog carnival dedicated to the sciences of ecology and the environment. This months edition is loaded with great posts from a diverse set of bloggers.. So here we go!

Jeremy starts us off with a post that describes the latest scare tactic to be implemented in religious circles.. Read it in his post entitled: The Embrace of Environmentalism Will Be the Doom of Traditional Religion over at his blog, The Voltage Gate.

Next Doris Chua presents Environment and Our Health at Doris Chua: Organics & Your Health. It's a nice reminder that aside from the fact that smog stinks- it's bad for your health, too (reminder: it's effects are felt by all animals- i.e. not just humans- see photo at left)

GrrlScientist sent me a couple of posts this month. 1st it's Birder's Conservation Handbook which is a book review of the Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds At Risk, by Jeffrey Wells. Next, she blogs about The Lovebirds in a post entitled Lovebird Behavior: Nature or Nurture?. Do they live up to their word???

Greg Laden, who has (I think) replaced PZ and Bora in rate of blog posts suggests to us Macaque Mothers Favor Their Sons and Extended Male Growth in Robust Australopithecus. Both are posted over at his excellent ScienceBlog: Greg Laden's Blog.

Laurent presents When leaves aspire to be flowers (a way cool story about a dioecious palm tree) and Rock pink rocks! A tale of two sexes « Seeds Aside (what the hell is a gynomonoecious-gynodioecious plant?) both posted at Seeds Aside.

Ed Yong gives us a topic that is near to my heart (and home, too) in a post entitled Solving the San Francisco plankton mystery posted at Not Exactly Rocket Science. It's a nicely written blog about a peer-reviewed paper on recent changes in the Bay.

Dave Bonta presents Two Plummer's Hollow breeding birds included in Watchlist 2007 posted at Plummer's Hollow, Pennsylvania.

Can being in nature make us feel better? Pat Doyle thinks so, and tells us why in her post, How We Can Find Healing in Nature posted at Barton Pond Feng Shui.

Ian Welsh must be a policy guy, and presents some thoughts on enviro-policy in his post How To Do Stupid Smart: The Center for American Progress Shows the Way posted at The Agonist.

John presents a pretty depressing story that remind us of the effects we have on birds (we are killing them) in his post: Seabirds Dying in the North Sea over at A DC Birding Blog.

At 10,000 Birds, there is a post about the CBC... (No Hockey Night in Canada here folks) Do you know what the Center for Biological Diversity is? No? Well go find out! Also Over at 10,000 Birds there is a neat post about the "Great Auk".

Whoops, I almost forgot... Jeremy form the Voltage Gate sent a second, and highly recommended post about the effects of wind power and it's effects on animals.. You should really see read it!

OK.. last but not least- don't forget that this is the holiday season.... please people remember the impacts of out materialism. In case you need a reminder... Go visit Treehugger and especially a post entitled: Forest Ethics' "Naughty and Nice" List of Treekillers
See you next month lucky issue #13 over at The Infinite Sphere

Seven Random and Weird Things Meme

I was tagged last week by Greg, who has some interesting commentary on weirdness... 1st off, I am shocked and offended by this tag... That he would even consider it a possibility of my being weird....

The rules

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

My 7 random facts

1. I completed a year of medical school in Bolivia… this somehow qualified me to try and pierce my girlfriends belly button (It was not successful)
2. I have virtually no knowledge of modern pop-culture.
3. I don’t kill things… anything. This includes bugs and other small things found inside my apartment.
4. Despite #4, one of my favorite things to eat is Filet Mignon cooked medium rare.
5. If I was forced to be religious, I would choose Buddhism. It’s focus on being nice and peaceful appeals greatly, and is in stark contrast to the Judeo-Christian/Catholic practice.
6. I was traumatized as a child when I witnessed my cat attacking and eating my pet turtle dove that was given to me by my kindergarten teacher.
7. I am a proud father of 5, and married to a beautiful woman!

I tag:

Shalini
PZ
Bora
Anne-Marie
bug_girl
Kate
Mike

Oekologie to be hosted here

Please submit links to me via email, or via the official blog carnival submission form by Friday (12/14/07) in the AM.

*Almost* Too Sick to Laugh At,

From Craigslist Missed Connections page in NYC. [Link]

Reply to: pers-505858701@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-11, 11:56AM EST


You took a dump in my mouth at The Monster on Sunday.

Wanna do it again?

...I don't feel a need to describe either one of us. If you shit in a guys mouth at The Monster on Sunday then you're you and I'm me.

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 505858701

Think it's real? I'd never doubt the absolute depravity of Craigslist posters I guess...

I've intentionally left the email in the copied message just in case...

Sears supports deforestation?

From Treehugger