Journal entries in 'Random Crap I Found On The Internet' for February, 2006

Michael David Murphy has a good solution to the problem of missed photographic opportunities. His descriptions are eloquent and beautiful, and you can reallyvisualize what he saw. I wonder if it would seem derivative if I started doing the same when I see something I'd love to photograph but can't. I think it would, but I might do it anyway.

An interesting description of the wasp Ampulex compressa, who has evolved the ability to perform brain surgery to subjugate cochroaches, turning them into docile zombies that it can then lead back to its nest and use as hosts for its babies. Reading this set me thinking about the evolution/ID argument, and I was going to go into that here, but then I see that just such a discussion sprung up in the comments of that blog, so I figure it's kind of unnecessary.