William M. Hartnett

>Female Shark Reproduced Without Male DNA, Scientists Say (NYT)
A hammerhead shark in a Nebraska aquarium (a Nebraska aquarium?) gave birth without any genetic contribution from a male shark. Parthenogenesis, the form of asexual reproduction at work here, is rare in vertebrates. Still, guys, it’s never too early to start worrying about our biological necessity. No [...]

>Court rules Santa Clara County must disclose parcel map data (California First Amendment Coalition)
(Via Dan Gillmor)
Big lower-court win for GIS users, open records advocates, journalists, California taxpayers and lovers of common sense. Pretty much every single story or project I’ve done at work in the past two years has relied on parcel-level GIS data [...]

And I’m not just saying that because my wife’s site is mentioned as an example of what every newspaper reporter should be doing in Scott Karp’s post Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start A Blog. Right on, which is why Kathleen and I are both massively into the Interwebnet.

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Not only are the hourly stats still annoyingly missing from the new Google Analytics interface, it appears that the reporting lag time is significantly longer than the three- to six-hour gap in the old version. I’ve gone back to using the old interface exclusively, which is unfortunate because I like the look and organization of [...]

Ah, another summer in paradise: NOAA predicts above normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. And don’t miss the always entertaining hurricane season edition of the Census Bureau’s Facts for Features.

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Boeing started final assembly of the largely composite 787 on Monday, which is a totally awesome milestone if, like me, you’re an aviation geek. If, like pretty much everyone else on the planet, you’re not an aviation geek, then final assembly of the 787 isn’t so much a milestone as much as it is yet [...]

>Not everybody’s a critic (LA Times)
(Via Romenesko)
Richard Schickel is a film critic for Time magazine. I don’t think I’ve read a single word of Time magazine, in print or online, in over a decade. This obviously is my fault. Carry on, Richard Schickel. Just keep on doing what you do, because there are nothing [...]

Who buys pants on eBay? My wife. Kathleen has a story about her pants in the features section of Sunday’s Palm Beach Post:
“One of my friends, however, thought it was kind of icky to buy used pants, sight unseen, on the Internet.
You don’t know where they’ve been, she said. What if someone died in those [...]

Check out Adam Buxton’s YouTube channel for more voiced-over hilarity.

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