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April 26, 2007

What an ants' nest looks like underground; 100-year-old photo blog'; Mp3s: Prince, Super Bowl 2007

Emptying the vacation notebook:

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Charles Badland, BioOne
Plaster cast of a subterranean ant nest in northern Florida.

What an ants' nest looks like: All we see is the little hole on the surface. Here are the tunnels below.

The nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius explains, "Each group was penned in an escape-proof enclosure for 4 days, after which workers coming to the surface were recaptured, and a plaster cast of their nest was made."
Larger.

Time gets loose:
Shorpy "the 100-year-old photo blog":

Shorpy is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating.

But at the moment it's about TV, leading with Leave It to Beaver: 1958.

Somebody enlarged a typewritten letter -- a prop -- that served as a note from Beaver Cleaver's teacher, and transcribes it. It begins,

My Dear Mr. Cleaver:

This paragraph has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
It is here merely to fill up space. Still, it is words,
rather than repeated letters, since the latter might not
give the proper appearance, namely, that of actual type. ...


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Mp3s: Prince, Superbowl 2007, Live at the Dolphin Stadium, Miami, February 4, 2007.

Links:
EU Parliament calls for Wolfowitz to resign
Archaeologists are uncovering a huge prehistoric "lost country" hidden below the North Sea.

Noted: The Reddit headline vs. the actual headline:

MSNBC: Quick study! Teen to graduate college after year

Reddit -- a social bookmarking site -- labeled the same story, "19-year-old misses the point of college, aims to graduate in single year."

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