You’ll score major points with your anthropology professor (or ens secondary-school equivalent) if you mention the major discoveries Robert’s magazine has just published about a fossil called Ardipithecus ramidus.
If you loved Lucy, you’ll adore Ardi.
You can also read about the discovery in
As the nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, it strikes us that darkness gets a bad rap. People associate it with evil, as in “the Dark Lord” and “the Dark Side of the Force.” Ridiculous! (Every MBer knows that evil is pink.) To redress the imbalance, MuseBlog hereby dedicates October and its Random Threads to the wonders and delights of darkness. Continue reading
Greetings, O wanderers in darkness! Please start here for a warm welcome (involving pie) and advice from Those Who Know. Enter, please.
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Known Muser birthdays this month*:
10-01 Kiki the Great’s birthday (1995 – black and red)
10-09 Gimanator’s birthday (1993 – purple)
10-12 Ebeth’s birthday (1991 – blue or octarine)
10-13 Paul Baker’s birthday
10-16 crazyquotescollector’s birthday (1993 – jewel tones)
10-16 Kagcomix’s birthday (1993 – green)
10-17 BushBug’s birthday (1997 – black, blue, silver)
10-19 LittleBasementKitten’s birthday (1997)
10-20 Goldendoodle’s birthrday (1994 – evergreen and gold)
10-23 kokopelli #13’s birthday (1992 – camouflage)
10-24 cromwell’s 5K Day
10-25 Red-tailed HAWK’s birthday (1994 – blue)
10-25 Randomosity 101’s birthday (1995 – blue, green, orange, and black)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between and January 24, 1995, and February 23, 1996
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between April 29 and May 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between August 3 and September 2, 1990.
You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in April.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!
To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:
SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER.
Let us know when your issue arrives.
NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
Ernest Hemingway wrote is supposed to have written a very sad one:
For sale: Baby shoes, never
usedworn.
What can you come up with? (We’ll also accept summaries, reviews, biographies — anything you can squeeze into this even-shorter-than-haiku format.)
Let’s try to make the plans for this year’s ball even better than last year’s.
This was clogging up the Books in Progress thread, so we’ve transplanted it here. Choose away!
The autumnal (fall) equinox for the Northern hemisphere occurs on Tuesday, September 22 at 11:tk Universal Time or 6:TK blog time. ‘Tis the season (peak pie season, among other things)!
And to our friends in New Zealand and other antipodean regions, happy spring!
*Role-playing game.
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Here you go! As White, bookgirl_me moves first.
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This year it be on Saturday, September 19. What be ye doin’ fer it, mateys? Continue reading
A place where you can discuss any aspect of life in terms of its ethical, epistemological, ontological, psycho-sociological, or other intellectual implications.
Something different, by popular request.
Continued from Part the Ninth.
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The September Random Thread continues with a nod to the legends of ancient Greece. Sing in me, O Muse!
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We probably should make another five or six of these threads in advance and keep them in the refrigerator until they’re needed. They don’t last very long.
Continued from Part 6.
KaiYves asked:
“Does anyone think it would be a good idea to award some kind of annual “Muser Unaware†awards to people or organizations outside of the blog who have promoted Musery in their own, unintentional way?”
We agree with Errata: why stop there? Use this thread to recognize inadvertent agents of Muserliness.
We’ve just installed a new version of the “Chess by Blog” plug-in, which is supposed to solve the “closed board” problems some of you have been having with Internet Explorer. Please let us know if you notice any difference.
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