The Waymarking site lets you pinpoint where you’ve been and what you found there. There’s even a category for Town Clocks, such as this one in the small town of Stayner. You can use it to find the nearest geocaches or even the nearest hotels. The reason I’m focusing on Stayner is because the town clock is near some 19th-Century buildings that I photographed there.

Farhad Manjoo thinks so. “Google Chrome is doomed!” sounds a bit apocalyptic to me. Everyone whom I’ve talked to who actually tries Google Chrome likes it very much.

CORRECTION: This is about the Chrome operating system, which is based on Ubuntu, not the browser. Thanks, bPer!

Sort of. Sites may disappear, but everything is archived somewhere.

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The Galaxy Zoo folks with their deep space survey have identified a new class of galaxies, the Green Pea galaxies.

At long last the ‘Peas’ have been submitted to MNRAS (The Monthly  Notices of the  Royal Astronomical Society,).  The ‘Peas’ were  discovered by users right here in  Galaxy Zoo who noticed a strange  class of small green galaxies at redshifts near z=0.2. A dedicated  group of volunteered collected a sample of these galaxies.  Then Kevin Schawinski found an astronomer (Carie [me :)]) to pull them together  and look at them in detail.

The paper will be called “Galaxy Zoo: A new class of compact extremely star forming galaxies?” by Carolin Cardamone et al.
You can use a galaxy’s ID number to call up information about it. Here is one of the Green Peas.

Primordial Blog, was a nice, thoughtful blog mainly about daily life in a small Northern community, nature, fossils,  science, the “teach creationism vs. evolution” controversy, and free thought. The blogger was a teacher and obviously proud of his students. I liked it because it was a way of learning about the North, but I wasn’t a regular reader. But I was a bit worried when I saw it mentioned as one of the top ten atheist blogs. And I was right to worry. It abruptly disappeared, totally, several days later. I guess a teacher has to worry about his reputation. He found out that he was living in a small-minded Northern community. Eventually a message trickled out, via Thinking for Free:

Note To All My Regular Readers

from Primordial Blog by _blank_

I know a lot of my regular readers have been wondering what happened to this blog so I thought I would post a quick note of explanation.

My employer was not too happy to discover that I had been writing a blog and thought that my choice of topics reflected badly on them and on my position in the community. As I prefer receiving regular paychecks to blogging, we came to the agreement that it would be best if the blog was removed from the internet.

Thank you to all the kind people who have enjoyed my writing over the years and have stopped by to comment – it’s been great getting to know many of you, but now it is time for me to move on to other things. I’ll still stop by to visit the atheist blogosphere from time to time, though not under my own name.

I would have thought that the day was past when schools could dictate to teachers what they did for legal recreation.