Posts from — May 2005

Happy Birthday Pirate Publishing:

Today Dagens Nyheter profiles Piratförlaget (Pirate Publishing), an upstart book publisher that rocked the staid world of the Swedish book industry when it published its first book at the end of April five years ago. Pirate was founded when Sigge Sigfridsson, Liza Marklund and Jan Guillou–three best-selling genre novelists–abandoned their publishers to start their own publishing house with the help of Guillou’s wife, Ann-Marie Skarp, who became head of the company.

cool.
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Home School U?:

I’m sure you all read The Onion, but do you also read The Swift Report?

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i thought that was why the association of home schoolers were building that university outside of washington d.c.

Evolution of the dog:

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hah classic.

Kitten Wars:
I’m incredibly busy today. Cat lovers,

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this is evil.

Link via JC. Thanks!

New Scientist Terror attack hit male birth rate – News:
Catalano thinks high levels of stress hormones in pregnant women could be to blame. The phenomenon might be an evolutionary mechanism designed to cull the weakest males when times are hard. “It’s not in the interest of the herd to have small, weak males around,” he says.

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or more likely… it isn’t , but let’s do some sociobiological speculation to entertain people.