-- Thur. Musings --

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Today's Arkansas birding listserv has a brief (possibly ongoing) thread centered around Ross Everett's Ivory-bill sighting over a year ago. Look here through the Feb 14 postings for those titled "Re: The great woodpecker hunt" to review the conversation:

http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ARKS.html

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And let's see, elsewhere on the Web, in the category of, 'if-a-headline-makes-me-laugh-it's-my-civic-duty-to-pass-it-along-to-others,' the following story (...and on behalf of octopuses everywhere... OUCH!):

http://www.livescience.com/technology/080213-robotic-chef.html
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