Conflicted.

Today, I bought a second-hand (mass-market fiction) book with the explicit intention of defacing it by writing in it. This feels terribly wrong; it actually feels even more wrong than the time I bought a brand new book with the explicit intention of taking it home and gutting it with a Stanley knife. (Possibly because that was in a good cause(tm), while this is for personal entertainment.) Hopefully I will still feel able to go ahead with the plan - otherwise I'll have wasted 25p!

Reality bites.

Ed Yong of "Not Exactly Rocket Science" has done a fantastic parody of the media's deranged excesses over Darwinius masillae. Presumably as a break from his continued excellent writing on actual science.