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Since the dawn of Windoze 95, I’ve secretly (and not so secretly) hated all Microsoft products. That’s why I use OpenOffice.org instead of M$-Office! But, there is one thing that has been cheesing me off for the longest time about OpenOffice: You haven’t been able to graph data with different error bars on each data point. The only error bars you could add had to all have the same value. Which is stupid. Who measures numbers that all have the same error? Seriously. How useless is that feature? Well, worry no more! You can now graph data with independent columns of error data! Check out my data and all their gloriously variable errors!
I think I peed my pants. Just a little bit.
Hup Hup Hurrah! Hold onto your foam eyeballs, muppetics! Hulu is now featuring a large selection of videos from Sesame Street! Here is Johnny Cash telling Oscar the Grouch to have a rotten day:
SNL did a pretty accurate 10-minute version of Biden and Palin in the vice pres. debates. Spot-on!
Check it out, another awesome Jerry Schnoor editorial in Environmental Science & Technology. He keeps me feeling positive about whether scientists can communicate relevant and accessible commentary on public policy. Schnoor talks about the politics of writing energy legislation/regulation that would actually do something, and recommends an official ES&T-endorsed three-step plan. It’s pretty punchy. Here’s a good quote:
This year Congress debated the Climate Security Act. Last year we passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (but it hasn’t worked yet). If I wanted education reform, I’d label it the Stupidity Prevention and Security Act. But that’s a topic for another editorial.We need to have journalism awards for scientific journals. There are several good contenders in the ACS.
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