I’m really enjoying the Skull-A-Day blog. The author posts a new image of a skull every day. They’re all very creative and original. Today’s skull was carved from an organic bell pepper.

I just read this story about PRISM — an astroturf organization established by science publishers to discredit free open access journals — illegally using copyrighted materials on the very web site they created to promote locking up scientific knowledge for profit. Yes folks, they bandy all these moral arguments for maximizing copyright and protecting rights, and then in the very web site where they do this, they use copyrighted images pilfered from elsewhere.

I can’t help thinking there needs to be a “hypocrite clause” in our law books. Any time someone is making an argument for something, and then current evidence is found to prove that they don’t adhere to the principle for which they are arguing, their arguments should be thrown out.

If you’re going to stand on morals, you have to be moral.

Batsday photos on Flickr

I don’t believe they had this when I lived in Florida.

That’s a shame, too, because I’d have gone! What a great idea!

I saw this in the street directly across from my cousin’s house. The neighborhood kids had constructed a basketball hoop by removing the bottom from a milk crate and then attaching it to a piece of plywood.

They played on it for a week, until one over-zealous participant slam dunked the ball, ripping the crate down from the plywood backboard.