Thu 2007-11-29 I can't help feeling that the appropriate way to protest against this would be to send teddy bears to the Sudanese embassy. A cuddly toy would make a good symbol of protest against religious bigotry. It projects the right image for deflating pomposity without being threatening.
Mon 2007-11-26 
When I first read of Rejecta Mathematica, I felt sure it must be some sort of joke but, apparently, it is not. However, I am sure it will be treated as one all the same. (Via Science at Sunclipse.)
I note that their web-site is math.rejecta.org which suggests that, if the journal is a success, then we might see phys.rejecta, astron.rejecta and so on.
Sat 2007-11-24 
This summer my daughter Zoe stayed with my father at his home in Cleveland (UK). One day my father took her to visit a local archaeological dig. When they got there, a friend of his who was working there as a volunteer, showed them a gold brooch with inlaid precious stones that he had just that moment excavated from the ground. He was understandably rather excited.
The dig was the Anglo-Saxon burial ground near Loftus. This burial ground was discovered by local archaeologist Steve Sherlock from aerial photos. The excavation, also supervised by Steve, was carried out in some secrecy over the past three summers but has now gone public. See here, here and here for more details. There is some speculation that one of the burials might be associated with Ethelburga, wife of King Edwin of Northumbria.
Mon 2007-11-19 This evening Zoe was looking up some Latin phrases when she came across perpetuum mobile. We both agreed that it should mean "always talking on the phone".
Sun 2007-11-18 
A Pythonesque tree-climbing goat of Morocco. Apparently these goats like the fruit of the Argan tree. More details here. A Flickr photo by K. Horn
