The following announcement is reported not just because it's great news, but also because it will serve as a test of how frequently Eldest Child reads this blog:
Freeciv 2.0.0 has been released and is available for download.
Changelog is somewhat slashdotted, so I've reproduced it below:
Via Cosmic Iguana – Voice of the Evil Doers comes news that there is now “overwhelming” (well, at least very substantial) evidence that Bisphenol A, aka BPA, a chemical found in plastics, is likely leaching out of plastic bottles and into our bodies. Each bottle may add only a trace amount, but the cumulative of this estrogenic compound effect might, the Iguana suggests, explain radically dropping sperm counts in the US.
Are we living an unintentional evolutionary experiment in which we select strongly for resistance to an estrogenic compound? Perhaps…but only if the effect is real, large numbers of people don't have diets that avoid the plastics, and — most importantly — only if this is is something to which some part of the population actually has a resistance.
Spotted at The American Street:
cache poisoning somewhere? a 302 exploit? ) or what I can do about it.
Update: Kevin amended his post, and we exchanged emails. For the reason described in the comments, the problem is solved (Kevin seemed to have inherited a spammer's IP number, which I had redirected).
It's been something of an open secret, but the Dean has now officially announced the list of New and Visiting Faculty for 2005-2006. It's a long list, and a good one.
Firefox issues another security update. See the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Release Notes or just download the latest version.
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