Clowns In My Coffee » whodathunk http://clownsinmycoffee.net Inanity of the most cogent sort you can find. Tue, 11 May 2010 23:16:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Straight Outta Victoria http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2008/10/02/straight-outta-victoria/ http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2008/10/02/straight-outta-victoria/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:55:51 +0000 adam http://clownsinmycoffee.net/?p=49 Continue reading →]]> UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab encodes a song by some music guy in the Text Encoding Initiative XML format. There is, of course, a video.

What I want to know is, does this mean XML is cool or hopelessly passé?  Discuss.

]]> http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2008/10/02/straight-outta-victoria/feed/ 0 There’s That Question Answered http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2007/04/29/theres-that-question-answered/ http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2007/04/29/theres-that-question-answered/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:25:51 +0000 adam http://clownsinmycoffee.net/?p=29 Continue reading →]]> On a visit to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo the other day, I came across a couple of references to artificial insemination; pandas are not exactly fecund creatures. It occurred to me that there must therefore be somebody whose job it is to … uhh … collect the male’s contribution to that process. Yep, that’s how it gets done, much of the time at least. I wonder when that subject gets covered in the better zoology programs?

For some animals, there are alternatives [ eep! ].

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