Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Today's links

1. Geoff Hill will speak (and sign copies of his book!) next week. Some excerpts from this link:
Auburn University Professor Geoff Hill and colleagues literally stumbled across evidence that a breeding colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers in a Florida swamp...The author of "Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness" will also focus on scientists need to remain objective, even in the midst of an overwhelming desire to record a discovery.
2. According to this column, the Brinkley IBWO billboard may still be up:
At Brinkley the top half of a double billboard bent forward by wind advertises the town's claim as the home of the thought-to-be-extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. The bottom half of the sign advertises vasectomy reversal.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if someday a complete set of signed copies of all of the IBWO "rediscovery" books will be worth more than one would expect - for their documentation of mass delusion.

If they are I am sure that some of the descendants of TBs will be selling them and hoping to make a few bucks off of their parents or grandparents gullibility.

Anonymous said...

It's hard to see how the words "Hillcrow" and "objective" could ever go into the same sentence without a "not", "hardly", or "you've got to be kidding" linking the two.

Anonymous said...

Auburn University Professor Geoff Hill and colleagues literally stumbled across evidence that a breeding colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers in a Florida swamp...

stum·ble

1. The act of stumbling.
2. A mistake or blunder.

Anonymous said...

"The bottom half of the sign advertises vasectomy reversal."

What we are waiting for is an "IBWO reversal" by CLO et al.

Anonymous said...

"Auburn University Professor Geoff Hill and colleagues literally stumbled across evidence of a breeding colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers in a Florida swamp and they've never stopped stumbling and bumbling since....."